Findings suggest that there may be social class differences in the rate at which children acquire a mastery of the syntactic rule system of the language. (Author)

Contends that the language of the suburbia--the language of the British middle class--is a dead language, because it has so few sources of contemporary enrichment and vitality, and because it is derivative and unoriginal and relies heavily on an imagery that stems from obsolete popular speech. (RJ)

Research supported in part by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation. (DS)

Earlier version of this paper was read at the Second International Congress of Applied Linguistics, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, in September 1969. (VM)

Discusses what grammar is, what language is, recent studies in language research, and relates these to classroom teaching. (MB)

Findings demonstrate that the function of receptive vocabulary is different from and more highly developed than the expressive vocabulary regardless of socio-economic level. (Authors)

Study suggests some answers to previous inconsistencies in research, provides a valid measure of oral interpretation performance, and demonstrates the effect of various levels of feedback upon oral interpretation performance. (Editor/MB)

Article based on research supported by a National Institute of Mental Health grant. (VM)