Educational programs for teachers of English as a Second Language must devote more attention to differences between the standard varieties of American and British English, with instruction focusing on the major orthographic, morphological, syntactic, collocational, and lexical differences. (CB)

Discusses a broad framework of the changing global economy, which is likely to influence the future of English teaching. Considers three consequences of "informationalism," a new stage of global capitalism: a shift in authority over English to a growing number of speakers of nonnative and nonstandard varieties; a growing need to use English to…

Presents brief sketches of contrasting theoretical approaches to children as language learners in order to highlight two early-childhood classrooms in which multiple theories are illustrated. The approaches have undergirded a variety of qualitative methods of investigating children's language. (Author/VWL)

A variety of units (e.g., word, structure, notion, function, and situation) are used in synthetic syllabi, but task has recently appeared as the unit of analysis in three primarily analytic, Type B alternatives: procedural, process, and task syllabi. Descriptions and limitations of each are presented. (138 references) (Author/LB)