Explores concepts behind measuring representation of bilingual children in speech and language therapy (SLT), with relevance to other services, and discusses practicalities.Interviews were conducted with speech and language therapists or their managers in nine SLT departments. Findings showed that SLTs' and managers perceptions of the linguistic…

Shows the interaction of the global and the local aspects of British Caribbean identities in talk. By viewing identities as texts of social practice that are constructed and displayed both through topic and stylistic changes, shows the possibility for reading speakers' identities in and through talk. (Author/VWL)

Discusses Web-based course management programs, which offer ways to reduce the amount of time teachers spend on clerical duties, repetitive tasks, and record keeping. Such programs blend text, images, audio, and video into a unique instructional medium and make it available to students wherever they have access to the Internet. (Author/VWL)

Examined whether gambit use in Spanish--words or phrases that facilitate the flow of conversation by giving the speaker time to organize her thoughts--can be taught effectively in the classroom, allowing the student to use gambits appropriately in unplanned speech. Results suggest that students can be taught to use gambits effectively in the…

Surveys recent research on the first and second language acquisition of temporal and aspectual properties of natural languages. Three recently published books are discussed in the context of the primacy or aspect hypothesis and the prototype, the connectionist, and the discourse explanations for the attested acquisition sequences. (Author/VWL)

Discusses three themes that involve linguistic situations that have their roots in the extreme mobility that has characterized societies since the late 1940's: social typology of immigrnat-based societies andinsular socities; acquisition of native phonology by immigrant offspring; interlopers as agents of linguistic change. (Author/VWL)

This brief article analyzes verbal protocols--oral records of thought provided by subjects when thinking aloud during or immediately after completing a task. (Author/VWL)

Presents ideas about notetaking that will help language learners see how implementing this important strategy can improve their learning. (Author/VWL)

Provides an examination of the five categories of the national standards for foreign language learning in light of specific Internet resources that can help advance language learners' attainment of the standards. (Author/VWL)

Presents a school board presentation on the benefits of early foreign language learning. The presentation included success stories of students who began learning foreign languages at the elementary level. (Author/VWL)

Presents a research agenda in which the study of interlanguage becomes more central to the study of interlanguage pragmatics, assessing the state of acquisition research in interlanguage pragmatics, surveying work in interlanguage pragmatics that either directly examines or appeals to grammatical competence, showing how acquisition studies in…

Argues that current approaches to modeling of concepts in bilingual memory privilege word representation at the expense of concept representation. Identifies four problems with the study of concepts in bilingual memory. (Author/VWL)

Suggests that in acquiring two languages from birth, bilingual children separate their grammars from very early on. Focuses on the acquisition of syntax in a generative framework. Argues that cross-linguistic influence can occur if an interface level between two modules of grammar is involved, and the two languages overlap at the surface level…

Argues for the need to move beyond the paradigm of parental involvement in children's early literacy through story-reading practice, which presently informs home-school reading programs, to consider a wider framework for family and community involvement. Illustrates the experiences of two children reading with their mother and sister. (Author/VWL)

Introduces the special issue of this journal, which is intended to define sustained-content language teaching (SCLT) and to offer illustrations within English language teaching contexts that demonstrate different ways in which TESOL professionals are applying its principles. (Author/VWL)