Refers to important articles from the 1973-74 volume of the Czechoslovak journal "Rusky jazyk." The linguistic portion deals with questions of conversational speech and stylistics. Relevant to teaching Russian are articles on FL teaching installations, factors leading to failure in language learning, and categorizing language errors.…

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)

This paper reports results of a preliminary analysis of the errors made by Russian exchange students learning English at S.U.N.Y. in Albany. Error samples are taken from a taped panel discussion containing prepared and spontaneous speech, from a TOEFL test, and from a quiz. Errors are divided into intralingual, or those reflecting general…