Southern Illinois Working Papers in Linguistics and Language Teaching, Volume 1.

Five original research papers by faculty of the Department of Linguistics at the University of Southern Illinois at Carbondale are presented. The titles and authors are as follows: "Measuring the Instructional Sensitivity of ESL (English as a Second Language) Reading Comprehension Items" (Sheila R. Brutten, John T. Mouw, and Kyle Perkins); "'The Boy for the Cookie': Some Evidence for the Non-violation of the Case Filter in Child Second Language Acquisition" (Usha Lakshmanan); "Covert, Undetected, and Uncorrected: Apparently Fossilized Structures in the English Interlanguage of a Native Speaker of German" (Ben Novak); "'Right-Through, Rings, and Taws': Marbles Pitching Terminology in Trinidad and Tobago" (Lise Winer and Hans E. A. Boos); and "A Systems Approach to Curriculum Innovation in Intensive English Programs" (Richard Young). (JP)