Advocates abandoning the classroom suppression of dialects of native Spanish-speaking students in the southwestern states, and recommends using dialect as a foundation for developing native language skills. (JB)

Proposes implementing the technique of narrow listening to advance second-language learners' comprehension of casual talk. This activity requires a native-language speaker to digress on tape on a familiar topic of interest to the learner so that the learner can listen to the native speaker both in person and later via the tape as often as he…

Proposes a four-level descriptive procedure for determining whether second-language word associations are native-like. The new methodology provides an enhanced way of incorporating word associations into future investigations of vocabulary learning and assessment. (Author/VWL)

Revisits the issue of the native versus the nonnative speaker in the area of English language teaching. The main goal was to examine the teaching behavior of two groups of teachers, native and nonnative, who have exhibited differences not only in terms of their language backgrounds, but also in terms of their qualifications and relevant teaching…