Discusses the use of English for purposes of comparison and illustration in teaching German grammar. (RS)

Lists advantages of using the initial teaching alphabet for language learning. (RK)

Paper presented at Indiana University, Bloomington on February 24, 1971, under the auspices of the Committee for Research and Development in Language Instruction. (VM)

A preprint from a forthcoming pamphlet of the National Conference on Research in English. (Editor/RD)

An examination of ERIC documents pertinent to this topic; a preprint from a forthcoming publication of the National Conference on Research in English. (Editor/RD)

Attempts to apply the techniques and ideas of transformational grammar to the teaching of translation. A three-step procedure in which in the original text is reduced to based and embedded sentences, translated and reconstituted in the target language is outlined. Stylistic aspects of translation are also discussed. (FWB)

Identifies five different types of English as a Second Language classes and discusses different types of problems which confront the teacher of such groups. (FWB)

Report of findings which indicate that error analysis can be used as a method to test the predictive value of contrastive analysis and extend its power of pedagogical applications. (Author/FWB)

Discusses some syntactic evidence gathered in a recent study which suggests not only that the dialect of Puerto Rican Spanish spoken in the New York area may be undergoing greater change than has previously been documented, but also that English interference cannot adequately account for the nature of that change. (EKN)

In combatting phonological interference in second language learning, attention should be paid to interference-producing aspects of the actual dialect that is the student's native language, rather than to the "standard" form of the language. (JB)