Proposes a model for creating citations in academic writing that relates variation in citation language forms to writers' ability to control how they position themselves and their texts within a multimember colloquy that comprises the past, present, and future academic community. The model is potentially valuable pedagogically and for analyzing…

Examines aspects of learning Cantonese by English speakers in Hong Kong. Particular focus is on the effectiveness of the instructional materials currently on offer. (Author/VWL)

The syntactic distribution and behavior of five English and Persian "measure" nouns and their adjectives are compared. From this, errors attributable to transference and those due to inconsistencies in English are enumerated. A unified analytic model of Persian errors in learning English suggests useful teaching strategies. (PMJ)

Examines socioculturally related interference phenomena by focusing on the English verbal behavior of the Japanese from a contrastive analysis approach. Discusses interactional patterns, speech acts, conversational strategies, and nonverbal behavior. (Author/BK)

Believes modern linguistics has done little to explore German modal particles because by focusing on sentences as the basic category for linguistic thinking these words did not seem to matter. Describes model which gives students experience with these particles in meaningful communication. (Author/BK)