This article discusses the use of abbreviations in written Spanish, with abundant examples. The hope expressed is that abbreviations will be used only where indispensable. (Text is in Spanish.) (CLK)

Explores some of the important aspects of language learning in the teaching of English in the United Kingdom. (RB)

Examines Basil Bernstein's principles on language as set forth in "Class, Codes and Control: Theoretical Studies towards a Sociology of Language" and applies them to the teaching of English composition. (RB)

Discusses the kind of language used in reporting events in school newspapers and provides several examples of writing that should serve as a model for student journalists. (RB)

The bidialectal freshman handbook will be the next gimmick of textbook companies, even though they will contain nothing new and will foster several fallacies. The information will be questionable, factually inaccurate and unsound because while no linguist has really been able to define dialect, linguists claim to have knowledge about the structure…

Analyzes the kinds of simplified Chinese characters currently in unofficial use, collected from personal correspondence and published discussions. (KM)

A questionnaire survey of 3,000 college teachers revealed that professors in courses other than English are concerned about English usage and are able to recognize usage errors. (DD)

Argues that English has no future tense, but instead uses the modals "will" or "shall" or "be going to" to indicate a futurity that is an expression of present or past intention, prediction, or expectation. Suggests the myth of future tense provides a false sense of certitude about the future equivalent to the certitude about the past and present.…

Taking the mystery out of how skilled writers think, this book shares some practical tips on how to make prose more readable. It also examines some common questions about punctuation, quoting, usage issues, and stylistic taboos. The book is geared to those writers who have already been through the "textbook mill and who now hunger for helpful…

Discusses the "dehydrated manner of producing writing which is fostered by English teachers' evaluation standards; prompted by an examination of a research report, "The Analysis of Essays by Computer (University of Connecticut, Storrs). (Author/SW)

The author uses introspection to consider the critical aspects of the writing process. (RL)

Introduces a special issue of this journal devoted to bilingualism in texts. Explores the practice of bilingual writing in a wide variety of texts, with emphasis on the historical dimensions of the problem, on increased attention to actual texts and their various contexts, and on some of the details of the practice of bilingual writing. (SR)

Argues that, for writers of color at all ages, there is always a conflict--a standard, literary language is in constant conflict with the language that carries a nation's languages, dialects, and cultures. (RS)

Considers the ways in which two late 19th-century American Indian intellectuals, Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins and Charles Alexander Eastman, use the discourses about Indian-ness that circulated during that time period in order to both respond to that discourse and to reimagine what it could mean to be Indian. Argues that this "use" is a critical…