Recommends and illustrates the use of oral lists of familiar English words in acclimatizing students of English as a second language to common sounds before exposure to a text or to conversation. (MSE)

Recommends that language teaching be organized by complexity of communication tasks rather than by difficulty of linguistic structure, that learner speech be analyzed on its own terms borrowing methods from child language studies, and that the adjustments in speech that teachers make in talking to students be recognized as such. (MLA)