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The Oxford English
Dictionary
SECOND EDITION
Prepared by J. A. Simpson and E. S. C. Weiner
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principled approach to language educa- double-spacing on one side of the paper.
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cerns by encouraging inquiry into the closely as possible to the printed style of
relationship between theoretical and the journal. References in the text of an
practical studies. The journal is less article or review should be by author
interested in the ad hoc solution of par- and year of publication, in the following
ticular problems and more interested in style:
the handling of problems in a principled
way by reference to theoretical studies. Widdowson (1979) makes this distinction. This
point is discussed in several places (Allen and
Viewing applied linguistics as a rela- Corder 1975, Stern 1983).
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editors give priority to papers which Works referred to should be listed at the
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research, and the planning and imple- page but at the end of the text.
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NOTES TO CONTRIBUTORS
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English. An abstract not exceeding 200 Thirty offprints of articles and
words in length should be included with reviews will be provided to authors free
all articles. of charge.CONTENTS
Obituary: Peter Strevens
Restructuring
BARRY MCLAUGHLIN
The role of consciousness in second language learning
RICHARD W. SCHMIDT
Another look at Yes/No questions: native speakers and
non-native speakers
JESSICA WILLIAMS
The utterance, and other basic units for second language
discourse analysis
GRAHAM CROOKES
Large-scale oral testing
CLIFFORD WALKER
REVIEWS:
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Hakan Ringbom: The Role of the First Language in Foreign Language
Learning
CARL JAMES
Ulla Connor and Robert B. Kaplan (eds.): Writing across Languages:
Analysis ofL2 Text; Alan C. Purves (ed.): Writing across Languages and
Cultures: Issues in Contrastive Rhetoric
LARS S. EVENSEN
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