ABSTRACT
In recent years interest in the area of second-language learning and bilingualism has increased remarkably. A major impetus was the so-called "Bilingual Education Act," Title VII of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1967. Another factor has been developments in the field of first-language acquisition, with attendant spin-offs to second-language acquisition research. As more investigators have become interested in second-language learning, new journals have appeared (e.g., Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Bilingual Review, Interlanguage Studies Bulletin), and collections of readings have proliferated (e.g., Andersen, 1981; Burt, Dulay, & Finocchiaro, 1977; Diller, 1981; Hatch, 1978b; Larsen-Freeman, 1980; Richards, 1978; Ritchie, 1978).
