Focuses on the relationship between involuntary verbal rehearsal, Piaget's egocentric speech, Vygotsky's inner speech, and the song stuck in my head phenomena. It is hypothesized that song may act as a Language Acquisition Device (LAD) activator or be a strategy of the LAD in the ontogenetic development of language. (28 references) (Author/VWL)

Reviews research regarding the role of correction feedback in second-language acquisition, exploring why, what, and how language should be corrected and who should correct language. (Author/CB)

Surveys recent trends in language teaching thinking in terms of the distinction between the technological and ecological perspectives on teaching and learning. Attention is given to the strategies involved in the practical realization of an ecological approach to language teaching. (Author/VWL)

Focuses on concordances from the language learner's point of view, and discusses how concordances might be integrated into a word processor as a step toward a fully integrated word processing environment with a range of on-line word-based resources. (Author/VWL)

An exploration of second-language educational practice in broader social, cultural, and political terms focuses on critical pedagogy, raising questions that should help to extend understanding and conception of curriculum and educational practice. (45 references) (Author/CB)

Examination of how teachers use computers in second-language instruction leads to the suggestion that designers need to take a wider view of the computer's role in language learning and more strongly consider the teacher's presence; and that teachers have to contribute more to computer-assisted language learning sessions, using their skills and…

Reviews research on the use of the "T-Unit" as a measure of language ability, demonstrating that the measure has limited utility in the case of second language, since it bases itself solely on syntax and does not reward speakers for sophistication in such areas as vocabulary. (Author/CB)

Discusses some of the larger cultural obstacles to the transfer of computer-assisted language learning, including learner aspects as attitudes toward computer learning and administrative aspects such as perceived importance of second-language learning. (Author/CB)

An example of an integrated sequence is provided that demonstrates how language learners are autonomous in their language use and are responsible for the pace, direction, and outcome of their work. It is suggested that establishing a principled connection between tasks modelled on natural sequences of language use is a key element in providing for…

Investigates the positive and negative potential for English-as-a-Second-Language student writers of word processing that are derivable from the properties of the medium. (40 references) (GLR)

A review of Hunt's research to find ways of measuring the growth of syntactic proficiency in American school children explores the possibilities of applying these measures to groups of British native and non-native speakers of English and developing them for use in teaching and testing. (Author/CB)

Explores the implications of the principles and parameters theory of Universal Grammar for language teaching. Classroom acquisition depends on the provision of appropriate syntactic evidence to trigger parameter setting, and certain aspects of vocabulary are also crucial. (33 references) (Author/VWL)

Assesses the effects of on-line advice messages that suggest learning strategies to the user. Results support the proposition that the design of learner-controlled interactive video materials for language teaching may be potentially helpful to students who do not come to a database environment equipped with effective language-learning strategies.…

A review of some of the major works in neurolinguistics published during the last decade extrapolates many implications for second and foreign language theory and practice, covering such issues as hemispheric dominance, language processing, and bilingualism. (35 references) (CB)

Views writing instruction as the techniques and approaches used by the teacher, as well as the learner's whole experience in the writing classroom. Drawing on research on writing in both first- and second-languages, an analysis focuses on the different aspects of writing instruction. (61 references) (Author/VWL)