The three purposes of this guide are to provide information on the Khmer language, alphabet, and educational systems which will be useful to Americans teaching English to Cambodian refugees; to give specific suggestions for teaching Cambodians to write the English alphabet; and to provide teaching materials that deal with the particular…

This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 32 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) the development of young children's metalinguistic understanding of "letter,""word," and "sentence"; (2) modifications in speech to elderly conversationalists;…

Beginning chapters of this volume define language and describe the sound, stress, and intonation systems of English. The body of the text explores extensively morphology, phonetics, phonemics, and the process of communication. Individual chapters detail such topics as morphemes, syntactic devices, grammatical systems, phonemic problems in language…

This report is part of a continuing series providing information on the status and progress of studies dealing with the nature of speech, instrumentation for its investigation, and practical applications of research. The report covers the period from 1 January 1978 through 31 March 1978, and includes extended reports on the following topics:…

This selective bibliography lists 16 books and 42 journal articles dealing with German-English contrastive studies. The entries range in data from 1952 to 1972 with the majority published since 1965. The books cited are German or American publications and the articles appeared in well-known European or American pedagogical language journals. (TL)

This selective bibliography lists 8 books and articles dealing with Russian-English contrastive studies and 2 articles on general Slavic studies. The entries range in date from 1953 to 1967. The books cited are European or American publications and the articles appeared in well-known European or American pedagogical language journals. (TL)

After a brief history of influences on the standardization of Russian since the Revolution, the descriptive and normalizing role of specific reference works of grammar, phonetics, vocabulary, and morphology is discussed. Concluding remarks point out a problem caused by a lack of coordination of standardization efforts and the mounting demands for…

This manual provides specific suggestions for reading instructors of mature partly illiterate and illiterate students, especially disadvantaged youth who have not completed high school. Proposed reading strategies are accompanied by examples of materials suitable for each area. Techniques are offered for diagnosing skills, as well as for teaching,…

This study guide for teaching English as a second language is intended to be used as an individualized in-service training unit for teachers and prospective teachers in bilingual education programs. It contains 12 lesson plans which deal with consonants, vowels, intonation, morphology, syntax, sound systems, self-evaluation, and lexicon. Included…

This survey consists of eleven papers covering current topics within the realm of linguistic science. The papers are written by scholars in particular fields, and each one is followed by a list of references and critiques by other linguists. Current theories are discussed and reference is made to recent studies and writings. The areas of…

This paper seeks to define the relationship between speech and writing as two separate media within language, and suggests the use of the term translation to describe moving from one medium to another. Such a view acknowledges the independence of speech and writing, the possibility of translation in either direction, the possible untranslatability…

This guide cites more than 1,000 textbooks for use in French programs at all levels of instruction. Entries are coded by the author's or editor's surname and include brief annotations, bibliographic data, availability, and price. The category index includes: (1) introductory, intermediate, and advanced texts, (2) composition and conversation…

Recent research in experimental phonetics seems to provide evidence for a clear division between language units and speech units. Many researchers have suggested that the consonant-vowel (CV) syllable may be a universal unit of speech production and perception, while language units become criterial only at higher levels of processing. In second…

The research reported in these papers covers a variety of communication problems. The first paper covers research on sound navigation by the blind and involves echo perception research and relevant aspects of underwater sound localization. The second paper describes a research program in acoustic phonetics and concerns such related issues as…

This textbook is the first in the reading series developed by the Ministry of Education in Saigon and was the official Ministry textbook series used in all public schools in Vietnam. The books in this series have been reprinted in their entirety from the original editions for use in elementary schools in the United States which have Vietnamese…