Study investigates the attitudes and reported behaviour of 60 infant and primary schoolteachers towards accent usage and change -- the results being discussed in the light of an accent extension programme. (Author)

Teachers can help students increase their range of registers by being aware of and encouraging their students' linguistic efforts and encouraging students' control over literate" forms. (Author/JB)

Updated versions of "Dialects ("The Florida FL Reporter, Winter 1966-1967). Appears in "The Florida FL Reporter special anthology issue "Linguistic-Cultural Differences and American Education. (FWB)

A report from the Educational Resources Information Center at the Center for Applied Linguistics; includes ERIC abstracts of documents pertinent to this topic. (RD)

Research supported by the Medical Research Foundation of Texas Grant No. P-32 from Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas. (DS)

Recommends that the speech communication profession provide models of speech communication across social-class boundaries that reflect with equal care the attitudes of both communicators." (Author/SW)

Sledd's article appeared in English Journal," vol. 58, no. 9 (December 1969), pp. 1307-15, 1329 (see TE 200 401). (RD)

Examines the development and conclusions of recent issues in linguistics, organized around the phonological and higher levels of language, the hypothesizes some of the implications they may have for reading instruction. Bibliography. (MD)

A paper presented at annual convention of Canadian Council of Teachers of English (2nd, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, August 1969). (RD)

Examines stereotypes of both race and language as to the bases upon which they rest in popular thinking and in classical anthropology and linguistics. Suggests a need for fresh models to accommodate a dynamic relationship between social stereotypes and ethnic and linguistic focusing. (EKN)

Programs for improving the standard English writing competencies of Black dialect speakers must employ the same methods and attitudes used in teaching Whites if such programs are intended to prepare students to be linguistically competent in society. (Author/MJL)

Describes a four-step language experience approach activity that is an effective aid in teaching Standard English language forms to dialect speakers while maintaining the integrity of the pupil's dialect. (FL)

Describes immersion education as practiced in Canada, outlining immersion programs' background, structure, methodology, and outcomes. Suggests that, to achieve the outcomes of immersion education developed for majority language groups, some minority language groups may require programs beginning in the first language and continuing in both the…