Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, Spring 2002.

This issue of "Working Papers in Educational Linguistics" begins with "Negative Evidence in Language Classroom Activities: A Study of Its Availability and Accessibility to Language Learners" (Teresa Pica and Gay N. Washburn), which revisits the issue of negative evidence in second language classrooms. The second paper, "Reassessing Parent Involvement: Involving Language Minority Parents in School Work at Home" (Kimberly Daniel-White), evaluates the theoretical stance of traditional parental involvement programs in the United States and implications for the involvement of language minority parents. The third paper, "What Is Missing in Interlanguage? Acquisition of Determiners by Korean Learners of English" (Hyun-Sook Kang), studies the acquisition of a new functional category in the interlanguage development of advanced Korean students. The fourth paper, "A Study on Closing Sections of Japanese Telephone Conversations" (Tomoko Takami), examines how closings are realized in Japanese telephone conversations between intimates. (Papers contain references.) (SM)