Paper read at the Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association of America, December 29, 1968, in New York, New York. (DS)

Discusses rules governing the use in Spanish of demonstrative adjectives in regard to the physical location of speaker and listener. (DS)

Discusses both the interference from language categories in language learning and the methodology of linguistic anthropologists in discovering and describing language categories which lack the formal characteristics of grammatical categories; this amounts to analysis of semantic components. (Author/JM)

Describes a program using translated stories about a familiar folk character, with related exercises, to link comprehension of SE patterns with the principles of selection, presentation, and cohesion in literature. (MSE)

Discusses and defends the innateness hypothesis - that a component of the human mind is a species-specific language learning mechanism--and discusses some implications of that hypothesis. (RM)

Describes, adducting many examples, the external relative clause, discussing it from the pedagogical standpoint. This type of clause, belonging to normal speech, and not being merely a stylistic matter, belongs in the basic course. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Some of the most frequent and serious learning difficulties encountered by Thai students learning English verbs, which involve the linguistic discrepancies between the Thai and English verbs, are analyzed. (Author/RM)

Offers suggestions about explaining the use of the accusative case in Russian time expressions. (PMP)

Presented and discussed are samples of controlled rhetoric frames, similar in appearance to composition frames but dissimilar in that they require very few arbitrary choices. A few of the required choices are strictly grammatical ones, but a great number of boxes contain grammatically, stylistically, and semantically disparate words and phrases…