Explains and discusses James Britton's model of the uses of language, tracing both its theoretical foundation and its usefulness to teachers in the schools. (AA)

Demonstrates the operation of the universal principles of lexical simplification, through an examination of its use in translation; second language learning and teaching, and simplified reading texts. (Author/AM)

Discusses grading problems encountered in southern dialect writers' themes and makes a distinction between regulative and constitutive rules. (MKM)

Discusses words in statistical theory and practice with emphasis on the reality that words get short shrift in most statistical teaching and exposition. Uses common misuse of statistical words as example. (Author/RK)

The process of value clarification may be defined in terms of specific patterns of language which students use and from which the teacher may reasonably infer that valuing is occurring. Provides an introduction on how one may incorporate a wide variety of media into valuing activities consistent with this approach to value clarification.…

A series of referential description tasks performed by normal and educationally subnormal children of equivalent mental age is reported, with the subnormal subjects consistently performing much worse than much younger children of normal intelligence. Aspects of performance and suggestions for improving communication skills are discussed. (MF)

The differences in the meanings of "shall" and "will" are presented, along with examples from various grammars, beginning with the sixteenth century and including contemporary ESL (English as a second language) textbooks. (HP)

Proponents of the language difference theory established sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic criticisms of the language deficit position. These criticisms are reviewed and an additional psycholinguistic criticism is advanced. (AM)

Discusses the characteristics of children's conversations, based on recording the conversations of three five-year-olds for a day, using radio microphones. (AA)

This articles discusses intonation in terms of different kinds of contours and demonstrates the inadequacy of any approach to English intonation which treats contours as sequences of significant pitch levels. (NCR)

Gives standards for judging the translation of advertisements. The examples are French to English as well as English to French. Emphasizes readability, memorizability, and puns. (MLA)

Discusses the teaching of interpretation. The importance of delayed interpretation, as opposed to simultaneous interpretation, is stressed, because of the emphasis on semantic meaning. (Text is in Spanish.) (NCR)

Based on travel to the People's Republic of China, language changes and reform are reported. New meanings of old expressions and new expressions are listed and discussed. Language reform consists of: popularization of Putonghua, simplification of the characters, and romanization of the Chinese Language. (SW)

Discusses the responsibility of the university to research and teach about uses of language by doctors, lawyers, government bureaucrats, and others in order to control rather than communicate. (DD)

Presents a case study in which the use of intricate varieties of levels of honorifics in Japanese is more complicated than traditional sociolinguistics has shown. The buraku (Japanese barrio) treated here is situated in the west part of Honshu, Japan, and consists of 13 households. (CHK)