About the Book
The volume has been written by a great variety of scholars and educators. Not only are the authors literally from all four corners of the world; they also represent, in spite of the large body of shared professional viewpoints and objectives, many different, even diverging, approaches, methodologies, and preferences. The papers have been grouped into a number of sections: 1. Language teaching; 2. Bilingualism; 3. Language testing; 4. Contrastive analysis: linguistic and cultural; 5. Language acquisition and performance; 6. Language, thought, and meaning; 7. Linguistic and literary analysis; 8. Lexical and terminological studies; 9. Language policy and language planning.
Table of Contents:
1. Foreword; 2. Introduction; 3. Contents; 4. Tabula Gratulatoria; 5. Biographical Notes; 6. Publications of Robert Lado; 7. I. Language Teaching; 8. 'Errors' and the Teaching of English (by Afolayan, Adebisi); 9. Educated Spoken Arabic: A Problem in Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language (by Badawi, ElSaid M.); 10. Case Grammar Applied to the Teaching of English (by Cook, Walter A.); 11. The Lado Legacy: Empathy in Applying Linguistics (by DiPietro, Robert J.); 12. The Teacher's Role as Organizer of Classroom Activities: Thoughts in Appreciation of Robert Lado (by Finocchiaro, Mary); 13. Lado's Influence in Brazil (by Gomes de Matos, Francisco); 14. On the Use of 'Valence' in Foreign Language Teaching (by Moulton, William G.); 15. The Teaching of French in India: Past and Present (by Sohoni, Y.K.); 16. Teaching Language for Communication in Taiwan (by Sprenger, Arnold); 17. Patterns in the Organization of Teacher Training (by Strevens, Peter); 18. Memory and the Language Laboratory (by Troike, Rudolph C.); 19. II. Bilingualism; 20. Linguistics and Bilingual Education (by Alatis, James E.); 21. The Uses of Adversity are Sweet: The Cubans and the Rebirth of Bilingual Education in the United States (by Inclan, Rosa G.); 22. III. Language Testing; 23. In the Beginning was Lado. The European Certificate Program: Origins and Development of Language Tests in Adult Education 1965-1985 (by Freudenstein, Reinhold); 24. Testing, Standards, and the Curriculum: Through the Backdoor (by Thompson, Richard T.); 25. IV. Contrastive Analysis: Linguistic and Cultural; 26. Translation Across Cultures: Some Problems with Terminologies (by Bugarski, Ranko); 27. Language Teaching for Inter-Cultural Communication: What Goals for Whom? (by Clyne, Michael); 28. Comparing Apologies Across Languages (by Cohen, Andrew D.); 29. Contrastive Analysis, Modistae, and Case Grammar (by Dinneen, S.J., Francis P.); 30. Contrastive Analysis: A Linguistic Hypothesis (by Ferguson, Charles A.); 31. Robert Lado and Contrastive Linguistics (by Fisiak, Jacek); 32. From the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis to Cultural Semiotics: Some Considerations on the 'Language-Culture Problem' (by Ikegami, Yoshihiko); 33. Application of Contrastive Procedures to Gothic (by Lehmann, Winfred P.); 34. Translation Across Languages or Across Cultures? (by Neubert, Albrecht); 35. A Comparison of the Phonemic Systems of Spanish and Tagalog (by Quilis Morales, Antonio); 36. Language Processes in Contrast: Contrastive Analysis Revisited (by Sajavaara, Kari); 37. V. Language Acquisition and Performance; 38. Several Languages - One Competence? (by Glinz, Hans); 39. Learning from Learners: Second Language Acquisition Processes (by Kessler, Carolyn); 40. Linguistic and Communicative competence and Conversational performance in English as a Second Language (by Politzer, Robert L.); 41. The Fifth Skill (by Rohrer, Josef); 42. Visual and Auditory Orientations to Language learning (by Stokoe, William C.); 43. The Four Basic Language Skills: Myth or Reality? (by Titone, Renzo); 44. Relevance of the Concept of Linguistic Competence to Foreign Language Learning and Acquisition (by Wigdorsky, Leopoldo); 45. VI. Language, Thought, and Meaning; 46. Some Aspects of Referential Clustering and Lexical Meaning (by Anthony, Edward M.); 47. Meaning and the Idiolect: The Idioseme (by Hall, Jr., Robert A.); 48. On the Interrelation of Language and Thought (by Jankowsky, Kurt R.); 49. Leibniz as a Linguist (by Mueller, Hugo J.); 50. Thought Without Language (by Wells, Rulon S.); 51. VII. Linguistic and Literary Analysis; 52. The Language of the Age (by Crystal, David); 53. Phonemics Thirty Years After (by Hill, Archibald A.); 54. Notes on the Treatment of Syntax in the Grammatical Tradition (by Hoenigswald, Henry M.); 55. The Rhythm of English Sentences (by Kreidler, Charles W.); 56. The Influence of the Lexicon and Semantic Content in the Perception of English Phonemes (by Lobo, Felix); 57. Static, Dynamic, and Relational Perspectives Suggested in Words and Phrases (by Pike, Kenneth L.); 58. Intonation and Topic in Portuguese (by Rameh, Clea); 59. A Linguistic Appreciation of a Poem by A. E. Housman (by Robins, Robert H.); 60. A Comparison of Oral and Written Language Functions (by Shuy, Roger W.); 61. VIII. Lexical and Terminological Studies; 62. Lexical Patterns in a Text and Interpretation (by Fries, Peter H.); 63. Nahuatlisms in Mexican Spanish (by Blanch, Juan M. Lope); 64. A Sociosemiotic Approach to Lexicography (by Nida, Eugene A.); 65. On the Origin of the Term 'Psycholinguistics' (by Slama-Cazacu, Tatiana); 66. Semantic Periodicity (by Zarechnak, Michael); 67. IX. Language Policy and Language Planning; 68. Tesol: The Australian Experience (by Australian Department of Education and Youth Affairs); 69. Second Language Teaching and Learning in Cameroon Today and Tomorrow (by Chia, Emmanuel N.); 70. The Societal Basis of the Intergenerational Continuity of Additional Languages (by Fishman, Joshua A.); 71. Language and Development (by Fox, Melvin J.); 72. Lexicography and Language Planning (by Haugen, Einar); 73. The Filipino People and English (by Sibayan, Bonifacio P.); 74. A Research Agenda for the Profession: Issues and Priorities (by Tucker, G. Richard); 75. The Role of New Guinea Pidgin (TOK PISIN) in the Changing Culture of Papua New Guinea (by Wurm, Stephen A.)
