The first part of this Linguistics Research and Demonstration Project report presents articles which have greater implications for a theory of instruction in English than for practical activities for classroom utilization. It includes "Changing Emphasis on Formal Language Study,""The Growing Importance of and Emphasis on Oral Language Development,""From Composition to the Composing Process,""The Changing Appearance of the English Classroom," and "Implications for a Need to Modify English Teacher Education Programs." The second part of this report discusses the results of a social experiment in teaching standard usage to nonstandard speakers which concluded that a child expands his linguistic skills by receiving and producing sentences in relation to a particular audience, purpose, time, and place. (SW)