Bilingualism and bilingual education in the U.S.S.R., the People's Republic of China, and Canada are discussed as a context for examining American attitudes toward and the establishment of bilingual education programs. Russian and minority languages in the Soviet Union are examined, including the early development of Soviet language policy,…

This study investigated the perception of place and secondary articulation contrasts in different syllable positions by Russian and Japanese listeners. The consonants involved in the study were the Russian plain (velarized) and palatalized labial and coronal voiceless stops in syllable-initial and syllable-final positions at word boundaries. The…

This is an annotated listing of 25 items that can be used in connection with instruction in Ukrainian language, culture, history, and literature. Items include surveys, journals, literary works, and other scholarly and instructional materials on the history and current status of the Ukraine and Ukrainian immigrants to Canada. (AM)

This bibliography is based on a collection at Manitoba's Multiculture Educational Resource Center and contains materials appropriate for the teaching of a number of languages other than French, English, and Canadian native languages. The focus is on heritage language teaching, but some titles pertain to the history and culture of the various…

Papers on language research in this volume include the following: Pour une comparaison des voyelles nasals du Quebec et du Haut-Jura: observations, methodologie et outils infomatiques (A Comparison of Quebec and Haut-Jura's Nasal Vowels: Observations, Methodologies, and Instrumentation) (Vincent Arnaud and Claude Paradis); Le negociation du sens…

The "ISSS Annual Conference Proceedings" is a peer-reviewed professional publication published once a year following the annual conference. (Individual papers contain references.) [For the 2009 proceedings, see ED504973.]