Search

This selection of the papers presented at a conference includes 6 introductory papers, 32 papers dealing with innovations and experiences in the authors' own countries, and reports from 6 working groups. These working groups addressed the six key topic areas of the conference: (1) relationships between new technologies and labor relations and their impact on the labor market, education, and schooling; (2) new technologies in the learning process; (3) technology's impact on relationships between general education and education for careers; (4) technological demands upon recurrent education, adult education, and non-formal education; (5) technological developments and their impact on education in the Third World; and (6) the impact of technological developments on both initial and inservice teacher education and training. The majority of the papers are in English, although six are in French and one is in German. (RP)

The following papers on the issue of multilingualism in second language instruction are included: (1) "Problemes linguistiques dans les societes plurilingues (Linguistic Problems in Multilingual Societies)," by Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow; (2) "Aim: Multilingualism. The Dismantling of Resistance and Prejudice," by Eva Koberski; (3) "Problemes poses en Susisse par l'enseignement des languages vivantes (Problems Posed in Switzerland by the Teaching of Modern Languages)," by Jean-Bernard Lang; (4) "Lingue in contatto e stratificazione linguistica (Languages in Contact and Linguistic Stratification)," by Ottavio Lurati; and (5) "Planung des Fremdsprachenunterrichts in den Laendern der Europaeischen Gemeinschaft (Planning for Foreign Language Instruction in the Countries of the European Community)," by Franz J. Zapp. Each paper except the first is followed by a summary in English of the discussion engendered by the paper. (JB)

This special issue concerns the content, function, and form of instructional materials dealing with second language instruction. The following articles appear: (1) "Deliberate Semantics--an 'Interventionist' Approach to Second Language Teaching Methodology," by A.P.R. Howatt; (2) "Sprechakte und Sprachunterricht (Speech Acts and Language Research)," by T. Ebneter; (3) "Materiels pedagogiques et/ou materiels heuristiques (Pedagogical Materials and/or Heuristic Materials)," by R. Richterich; (4) "Texte linguistique et representation iconographique (The Linguistic Text and Pictorial Representation)," by E. Arcaini; (5) "A propos de la conception d'une unite didactique dans le cadre du francais, language etrangere (On the Idea of Didactic Unity in the Framework of French, Foreign Language)," by A. Barrera-Vidal; (6) "Accuracy and Fluency as Polarities in Foreign Language Teaching Materials and Methodology," by C. Brumfit; (7) "La linguistique et le reste dans la conception des materiaux pedagogiques pour l'enseignement scolaire des langues secondes (Linguistics, etc. in the Concept of Pedagogical Materials for the Teaching of Second Languages)," by D. Coste; (8) "Lehrwerkanalyse und Lehwerkkritik aus der Sicht der linguistischen Pragmatik (Analysis and Criticism of Instruction from the Point of View of Linguistic Pragmatics)," by M. Pelz; and (9) Reve et Realite (Dream and Reality)," by G. Capelle. A synthesis article concludes the volume. (AMH)

This publication presents 20 conference papers in French and German on aspects of linguistic research. Papers include: "Objectivite et subjectivite dans la connaissance du langage" (Mahmoudian); "Focalisation et antifocus"(Bearth); "Remarques sur la notion d''etymologie populaire'"(Chambon); "Sur la construction serielle en malgache"; (Fugier) "Ein Schichtungsmodell der Kompetenz, als Hilfe fur den Ueberblick uber die gesamte Sprachverwendung"(Glinz); "Une mesure de l'integration d'un element a un systeme" (Jolivet); "La convention X et la structure des unites discursives" (Rubattel); "Codification phonetique de noms de famille" (Vater); "Ambiguite, malentendu et activite paradiscursive" (Berthoud); "Apprendre a expliquer" (de Gaulmyn); "Pertinence et conversation"; (Moeschler);"Syntaxe, pragmatique, stylistique" (Reboul); "Konfirmandenunterricht..tout de meme! Les procedes de transcodage en conversation bilingue et exolingue" (Oesch-Serra); "Corpus oraux et edition: Quelle transcription pour quelle lecture?" (Rittaud-Hutinet); "Malentendu et communication" (Weil); "Aspects pragmatiques de l'emploi des circonstants" (Wuest); "Neocodage et discours de la presse: Le mot compose dans le quotidien suisse-romand 'Le Matin'" (Munch); "A propos de l'identite linguistique" (de Latour); "De la cooperation a l'ajustement collaboratif polylogal dans les cours de langues" (Murphey); and "Analyse morpho-syntaxique du francais et l'enseignement assiste par ordinateur" (Renard). (MSE)

Papers from the linguistics colloquium address a variety of topics in linguistic theory and language research, most in French. Topics include: objectivity and subjectivity in understanding language; focalization in conversational language; the notion of "popular etymology"; serial construction in Malagasy; linguistic competence (in German); measuring the integration of an element in a linguistic system; discourse analysis; phonetic linkages among family names; ambiguity, misunderstanding, and paradiscursive activity; learning to explain; pertinence and conversation; syntax, pragmatics, and stylistics; bilingual discourse; transcription of oral language corpori; neologisms and the press; linguistic identity; cooperation, adjustment, and collaboration in language class; and morphosyntactic analysis of French and computer-assisted instruction. (MSE)