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Papers reporting research on Spanish second language learning include: "Discourse Features of Spanish Oral Production at the Novice Level" (Rebecca Jo Bearden); "A Discourse Approach to the Assessment of Foreign Language Oral Proficiency" (Dale April Koike, Fanny Hinojosa); "Acquisition of Spanish Definite Articles by English-Speaking Learners of Spanish" (Maria Ramirez-Mayberry); "The Spanish Psych Verb Construction: Beginning and Intermediate Learners' Patterns of Usage" (Christopher D. Gascon); "The Relationship between the Production and Perception of L2 Spanish Stops" (Mary Zampini); "An Acoustic Description of the Longitudinal Acquisition of Spanish Phonological Features by English Speaking Adult Learners" (Jeffrey Reeder); "Prochievement Testing: Matching Instructor Expectations, Student Level, and Task Levels" (Barbara Gonzalez Pino); "Current Issues in the Spanish Language Proficiency of Bilingual Education Teachers" (Michael Guerrero); and "Multiple Challenges of Multimedia: Development, Implementation, and Evaluation in Second Semester Spanish" (Margaret Ann Kassen). (MSE)

Four papers on second language learning are include. "Comparing Native and Nonnative Speakers' Error Correction in Foreign Language Writing" (Catherine A. Jolivet) examines differences between native and nonnative French speaking teachers in their error correction on students' compositions. "ESL Students' Opinions About Instruction in Pronunciation" (Matt Madden, Zena Moore) reports on a study of different students' attitudes about pronunciation instruction. In "Factors of Attrition in Japanese Language Enrollments" (Yoshito Saito-Abbott, Keiko Samimy), influences on university-level Japanese language enrollment and attrition are examined. "An Analysis of a Common Structure in Korean-English Code-Switching: A Test of the Matrix Language Framework" (Mi-Ae Lee) looks at the morphosyntactic mechanism of a common Korean-English code-switching pattern. (MSE)