Table of Contents
Welcoming Remarks
James E. Alatis
On behalf of the Center for Applied Linguistics
Charles A. Ferguson
On behalf of the Georgetown University Bicentennial
Charles L. Currie, S.J.
Presentation of Bicentennial Medals to Henry and Renée Kahane
James E. Alatis
The last forty years: Real progress or not:
Sir John Lyons, LittD., F.B.A.
Language teaching
The integration of language and content instruction for language minority and language majority students
G. Richard Tucker and JoAnn Crandall
Practice makes less imperfect: Users’ needs and their influence on machine translation development
Veronica Lawson
Acquisition vs. learning in reading pronunciation by adult EFL students
Robert Lado
Discourse and text: A narrative view of the foreign language lesson
Claire J. Kramsch
Language teaching and theories of language
Charles A. Ferguson
Cohesion and coherence in the presentation of machine translation products
Muriel Vasconcellos
Second language acquisition: do we really want a unified theory?
Richard Lutz
Less commonly taught languages: The current situation
Karin C. Ryding
Towards a rationale for language teaching technology
Peter Strevens
ESL program evaluation: Realities and perspectives
Ali Hajjaj and Balkees Al-Najjar
Discourse frames and the cycle of instruction
Frederick Bosco and Anna De Meo
Teaching language and culture: Old problems, new approaches
Ross Steele
The role of language in the immigrant’s life
Henry Kahane
New trends in foreign language teaching: Teaching English in the Italian medical school curriculum
Maria Ibba
Lexical search strategies in L2: A developmental analysis
Irene Thompson
Interaction and communication in the language class in an age of technology
Wilga M. Rivers
Language Testing
Technological, methodological, and assessment challenges: Can the foreign language teacher survive?
Ray T. Clifford
Multipurpose language tests: Is a conceptual and operational synthesis possible?
John L. D. Clark
Testing English as a world language: Issues in assessing nonnative proficiency
Peter H. Lowenberg
Oral proficiency in the less commonly taught languages: What do we know about it?
Richard T. Thompson
Language proficiency testing with limited English-proficient students
J. Michael O’Malley
‘Passages’: Life, the universe and language proficiency assessment
Thea C. Bruhn
Language testing in the secondary schools: Past experience and new directions
Rebecca M. Valette
Who is in charge in the learner-curriculum-testing connection?
Heidi Byrnes
Language technology
Assessment, articulation, accountability: New roles for the language lab
Sue K. Otto
The synergism of technology and theory in classroom second language acquisition research
Nina Garrett
Semantic subclasses of temporal nouns
Michael Zarechnak
From wire recorder to satellite dish: The impact of technology on language teaching
Protase E. Woodford
Challenging teachers and harnessing technology
June K. Phillips
Building on the past: New directions in CAI/IL
Frank Otto
Language learning, cultural understanding, and the computer
Judith G. Frommer
New developments in knowledge-based machine translation
Sergei Nirenberg
Culture in the language class: Videos to bridge the gap
Ricardo M. Paiva
Using unification grammars for analysis and synthesis
Margaret King
Testing and technology in Germany revisited: What is left? What can be hoped for?
Reinhold Freudenstein
New directions of machine translation
Makato Nagao
Machine translation: Achievements, problems, promise
Winfred P. Lehmann
Language teaching technology: A low-tech view
Stephen Krashen
Appendix: Three historical notes
G. Richard Tucker and Michael Zarechnak
Contributors
G. Richard Tucker JoAnn Crandall Veronica Lawson Robert Lado Claire Kramsch Charles A. Ferguson Muriel Vasconcellos Richard Lutz Karin C. Ryding Peter Strevens Ali Hajjaj Balkees Al-Najjar Frederick Bosco Anna De Meo Ross Steele Henry Kahane Maria Ibba Irene Thompson Wilga M. Rivers Ray T. Clifford John L.D. Clark Peter H. Lowenberg Richard T. Thompson Thea Bruhn Rebecca M. Valette Heidi Byrnes Sue E.K. Otto Nina Garrett Michael Zarechnak Protase E. Woodford June K. Phillips Frank Otto Judith G. Frommer Sergei Nirenberg Ricardo M. Paiva Margaret King Reinhold Freudenstein Makato Nagao Winfred P. Lehmann Stephen Krashen
