Speech given February 10, 1970, at the Hessisches Lehrerfortbildungswerk," Reinhardswaldschule. (DS)

In acknowledging the debt of language teaching to recent developments in linguistics, the author opposes the transformational grammarian's view that habit-forming drills and the creative use of language are diametrically opposed. (FWB)

The author questions the usefulness of the concepts of transformational generative grammar, especially as represented in Jacobs and Rosenbaum's "English Transformational Grammar, for the teacher of English as a Second Language. Paper presented at the TESOL Convention, Chicago, March 1969. (FWB)

After suggesting that instructional strategists should concern themselves with the problems of maximizing positive transfer, of representing language in all its modes, and of stressing the purposive character of language behavior, this article presents a schema for teaching a point of language structure which takes these factors into account. (FB)

Surveys some of the principal theories and methodologies in second language instruction. (EKN)

The author makes a case for teaching traditional prescriptive grammar for 10 weeks at the beginning of the tenth grade. (JM)

Examines the innate faculties that underlie linguistic competence, especially syntactic competence, and proposes a theory of these faculties which accounts for the complexities of language and the evolution of human language. (AM)

Discusses the structuralist and the cognitivist theories of language learning, and emphasizes the importance of practice in second language learning. (AM)

Suggests that knowledge of relational structures in combination with techniques for determining the meaning of unknown lexical terms assists Black disabled readers in improving their reading performance. (FL)

There is considerable concern that the majority of adolescents do not develop the competence in writing they need to be successful in school, the workplace, or their personal lives. A common explanation for why youngsters do not write well is that schools do not do a good job of teaching this complex skill. In an effort to identify effective…

Noting that, contrary to the first conference, disagreements began to surface among the conference participants of the second conference, this proceedings contains papers presented at the second conference on the teaching of grammar (except for a preconference workshop and one paper). Papers in the proceedings are: "Keynote: Finding Reasons…

The appearance of English auxiliaries in the speech of five native speakers of Spanish is described, as well as these subjects' acquisition of the negative and interrogative transformations. (Author/RM)