Reports results of a longitudinal study of the acquisition of first words by 18 infants. Strategies used in word acquisition and environmental variables related to language development were investigated. Results were analyzed in terms of an interaction model of the language-learning process. (DP)

Paper presented at the convention of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Washington, D.C., February 1972. (RS)

Special issue devoted to research and the teaching of French in the elementary school. (VM)

Tests on children between five and nine led to the conclusion that children's ability to recognize synonymous structures is progressively developed over a period of years and that there is a scale of difficulty involved. Paper presented at the National Association for Foreign Student Affairs Annual Conference, May 1969. (FWB)

Compares the linguist's treatment of the speech of Negro children with that of educational psychologists such as Bereiter and Engelmann, and demonstrates the deficiencies of the latter. (FB)

This article presents a non-technical discussion of the way in which modern transformational generative linguistics can help in understanding the reading process. (FB)

Article presented in Spanish and English versions. (DS)

The author describes an approach to teaching reading and writing in which emphasis is on the child's production of language. (Author/JB)