Paper delivered at the annual meeting of ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) on November 27, 1971, in Chicago, Illinois. (DS)

Paper read at the Annual Conference of the National Association of Professors of Hebrew on October 31, 1971, in Atlanta, Georgia. (DS)

First report of this program, supported by a U.S. Office of Education contract, appeared in the January 1966 issue of Modern Language Journal." (DS)

Special issue devoted to study of the whistling language of Kuskoy, Turkey. Study was prompted by study of whistling language in Aas, France. (DS)

Research sponsored in part by a contract with the U. S. Office of Naval Research. Longer version of the article appears in Han and Weitzman, Acoustic Characteristics of Korean Stop Consonants, Studies in the Phonology of Asian Languages III," University of Southern California, 1965. (DS)

Paper delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association of America, December 29, 1970, in New York City. (DS)

Describes the Self-Instructional Language Programs (SILP) as articulated in some New York State secondary schools, and urges cooperation between colleges and secondary schools in promoting SILP. (AM)

Discusses accounts of events and pressures influencing the British government's Welsh Office to set up the "Council for the Welsh Language," and reviews the council's composition, tasks, and achievements. Findings indicate that the council was even-handed in its promotion of activities to support Welsh and satisfied the middle ground of…

Investigates both the explicit and implicit sociocultural messages conveyed by language textbooks. Twelve Arabic textbooks used in the junior high schools in the Hebrew educational system in Israel were examined. Findings indicate that Arab society is presented in a partial, subjective, and unbalanced manner. (Author/JL)

Analyzes the planning components involved in a language course and the choices that they present. The article discusses the amount of time available and required for effective language teaching; the need for backward planning; the necessity of prioritizing; and diversification of course content. (12 references) (Author/CK)

Focuses on the licensing conditions on empty categories in DP, dealing in particular with the distribution of the null noun "pro" in adjectival contexts. N-"pro" is submitted to requirements of formal licensing and identification. The contrast between English and other languages with respect to N-"pro" derives from…

Presents a comparative semantic analysis of English, French, and Dutch transitive constructions that takes into account the entity that sets the event in motion, the object it affects, and the process that links both. (18 references) (Author/CK)

States the differences between the classes of structures that admit a progressive interpretation in English and Japanese and discusses progressive aspect in these two languages on the basis of proposed universally valid definitions. It is concluded that the contrastive behavior of the English "be-ing" construction and the Japanese…