Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 1989: Language Teaching, Testing, and Technology

Welcoming RemarksJames E. Alatis

On behalf of the Center for Applied LinguisticsCharles A. Ferguson

On behalf of the Georgetown University BicentennialCharles L. Currie, S.J.

Presentation of Bicentennial Medals to Henry and Ren?e KahaneJames 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 studentsG. Richard Tucker and JoAnn Crandall

Practice makes less imperfect: Users' needs and their influence on machine translation developmentVeronica Lawson

Acquisition vs. learning in reading pronunciation by adult EFL studentsRobert Lado

Discourse and text: A narrative view of the foreign language lessonClaire J. Kramsch

Language teaching and theories of languageCharles A. Ferguson

Cohesion and coherence in the presentation of machine translation productsMuriel Vasconcellos

Second language acquisition: do we really want a unified theory?Richard Lutz

Less commonly taught languages: The current situationKarin C. Ryding

Towards a rationale for language teaching technologyPeter Strevens

ESL program evaluation: Realities and perspectivesAli Hajjaj and Balkees Al-Najjar

Discourse frames and the cycle of instructionFrederick Bosco and Anna De Meo

Teaching language and culture: Old problems, new approachesRoss Steele

The role of language in the immigrant's lifeHenry Kahane

New trends in foreign language teaching: Teaching English in the Italian medical school curriculumMaria Ibba

Lexical search strategies in L2: A developmental analysisIrene Thompson

Interaction and communication in the language class in an age of technologyWilga 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 proficiencyPeter 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 studentsJ. Michael O'Malley

'Passages': Life, the universe and language proficiency assessmentThea C. Bruhn

Language testing in the secondary schools: Past experience and new directionsRebecca M. Valette

Who is in charge in the learner-curriculum-testing connection? Heidi Byrnes

Language technology

Assessment, articulation, accountability: New roles for the language labSue K. Otto

The synergism of technology and theory in classroom second language acquisition researchNina Garrett

Semantic subclasses of temporal nounsMichael Zarechnak

From wire recorder to satellite dish: The impact of technology on language teachingProtase E. Woodford

Challenging teachers and harnessing technologyJune K. Phillips

Building on the past: New directions in CAI/ILFrank Otto

Language learning, cultural understanding, and the computer Judith G. Frommer

New developments in knowledge-based machine translationSergei Nirenberg

Culture in the language class: Videos to bridge the gapRicardo M. Paiva

Using unification grammars for analysis and synthesisMargaret King

Testing and technology in Germany revisited: What is left? What can be hoped for?Reinhold Freudenstein

New directions of machine translationMakato Nagao

Machine translation: Achievements, problems, promiseWinfred P. Lehmann

Language teaching technology: A low-tech viewStephen Krashen

Appendix: Three historical notesG. Richard Tucker and Michael Zarechnak