Seeks to establish a criterion for selection of language content not based on language, but rather on the process of language acquisition. (DS)

Suggests that the cognitive theory of language within the field of psycholinguistics, rather than a theory of linguistic description, should underlie language teaching materials. (DS)

Report of the first year of this study appeared in The Modern Language Journal, v52 n5 p268-279 May 1968. (DS)

Based on surveys conducted by institutions such as the National Association for Foreign Student Affairs, the National Council of Teachers of English and the Center for Applied Linguistics, this article attempts to present a composite picture of the EFL (English Foreign Language) program as it has developed in the 1950's and up to the present. (FWB)

Compares effectiveness of methods for teaching reading to speakers of nonstandard English, including a 61-item bibliography on such instruction; first article in a series on oral language research, sponsored by the National Conference on Research in English. (RD)

Audio-tutorial instructional techniques permit the laboratory to be run on unscheduled basis, freeing students of time-constraints and affording more efficient use of laboratory equipment. (IR)

Reports in 1969 survey of 78 institutions, 92 Percent of those in California. (RD)

An item reversal is like the original item except that the apparent or inferred direction of meaning is changed from positive to negative or from negative to positive. The experimental subjects did not respond to the reversed items and the original items in a similar manner. (Author/DG)

Speci&3 issue devoted to the second conference on structuro-global-audio-visual methodology, at Mons, Belgium, 1971; text of talks which formed the basis of discussion during the conference. (VM)