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

Examines several specific language blocks to English language acquisition by native speakers of Spanish. (SW)

Collitz lecture delivered at the meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in Columbus, Ohio, July 1970. (DS)

Describes the difficulties encountered in translating the compound forms and tenses of German verbs into French. (DS)

The chief learning problems are seen to be in the formation of interrogative sentences, conditional sentences, passive construction, the use of indirect speech, and the use of could," might," should," and would." (FB)

The underlying thesis of this article is that Nonstandard Negro English differs in its deep structure from Standard English. (Author/FWB)

Discusses an English test the authors designed to determine areas of interference between the lexical systems of Italian and English. Fourteen Italian students were asked to complete two multiple-choice vocabulary exercises, correct vocabulary items in a short reading passage, and translate a dialog from Italian into English. The complete test and…

Introduces an annotated bibliography of English-German contrastive studies which are directly or indirectly relevant to foreign language teaching, in an attempt to acquaint language teachers with available linguistic resources. Usefulness of the works to teachers being one of the main selection criteria, it omits highly abstract or theoretical…

Discusses two basic areas of difference between British and American English, namely the complementation of certain participles and the complementation of certain verbs. Complementation after "concerned" and "interested" is illustrated by several examples taken from speech and from newspaper advertisements. (AMH)