A student of Russian and German describes his method for improving reading skills in those languages, with emphasis on a field of specialization. (AM)

This article analyzes the Spanish version of the motorists' guide from the Department of Motor Vehicles of the state of California. There are many poor translations due to direct translation from the English. (NCR)

Discusses a survey of business professionals and business teachers to determine the written communication problems of recent college graduates and solicits opinions about the content of the college business curriculum. (MH)

Investigated the written syntactic maturity of students from grade ten through sixth year university. (DD)

This experiment sought to determine whether students writing in their mother tongue (Hebrew) and thus deprived of the opportunity to be exposed to English through writing could achieve the same reading comprehension level as their peers who write English throughout the course. (SW)

A cloze procedure test presents a written passage in which every fifth word is deleted. The student must fill in the blanks with the words originally used in the passage. This article discusses the usefulness of the procedure as a diagnostic tool and for evaluating the suitability of instructional materials. (GC)

Argues that reading, like speaking and writing, is an active language process in which readers display their sophistication as functional psychlinguists. While it is difficult to understand these active, underlying processes, authors advocate the use of oral reading as a data base. Presents a typology of miscues and demonstrates how they provide…

Observations on the current state of the teaching of writing to beginning foreign language students. Kinds of texts used, when and how to introduce reading, consideration of student needs, socio-cultural factors, the problem of motivation, and pedagogical implications are among the topics discussed. (Text is in French.) (AMH)

Presents an overview of Michel Foucault's approach to the study of historical systems of thought, arguing that Foucault's view of historical criticism and language-in-use have much to offer rhetorical theory and criticism. Discusses the nature of discourse for Foucault and examines the characteristics of the fundamental discursive datum, the…

Describes kindergarten children's oral and written language behaviors while operating a computer. Stages of computer language play and children's experimentation with speech and writing specific to the computer also are discussed. (AS)

Investigates the relationship between the oral and written language of one college-level basic writing student who is a speaker of vernacular Black English (VBE). Reports that neither VBE patterns in the student's oral language nor other features of orality that previous research has identified account for his writing problems. (HOD)

This paper discusses one Chinese graduate student's experience with English writing. Through a literature review and personal interviews with other Chinese students, the paper explores the differences between Chinese and English writing. It summarizes the literature on differences between Chinese and English writing conventions in ideological and…

This article focuses on the language choices that second language teachers have made in the course of their professional lives as constructed in life stories that they wrote for a national writing contest. The choices include those made by the teachers during their school years, upon entering college, and in the course of their careers. In the…

This monograph was originally a chapter from a 14-volume series, "Current Trends in Linguistics," that presented reviews of research pertaining to language and society worldwide. This publication provides access to researchers of the Indo-Pakistan Subcontinent, focusing on the Sindhi language. Chapter 1, "Sindhi Studies:…