This paper is concerned with the role that enterprise-based teachers play in attempting to induct workers on the periphery of the global economy into the discourses of the global marketplace. It focuses on the micro-politics of language, arguing that economic globalization is a social achievement that generates and requires new language and…

Author discussed the importance of language, its many uses and how to properly evaluate its daily function. (Editor/RK)

Discusses (1) American class anxiety and racism as reflected in the linguistic purist tradition; (2) the didialectalism of contemporary Black Idiom speakers; (3) the need for accurate comprehensive descriptions of Black Idiom; and (4) the need for teachers to teach communication skills to Black students. (MM)

Paper presented March 6, 1971, at the TESOL Convention in New Orleans, La. (VM)

Report of research findings on productive language differences in beginning fifth grade Black children living in Philadelphia, as evidenced by their use of nonstandard syntactic forms in both speech and writing. (RB)

Discusses factors pertinent to evaluating various language performances of elementary school children. (SW)

The 100-year-old official English language study program in Japan needs to be drastically upgraded through improved teacher-training and instructional methods. (IR)

States that the teacher of students with differing dialects should start by accepting the students and their speech; a paper presented at annual convention of National Council of Teachers of English (60th, Atlanta, November 27, 1970). (Editor/SW)