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This issue contains two articles in Spanish and three in English on the following topics: the practical presentation of English for Special Purposes (ESP) materials in science programs at the National University of Trujillo, "notional syllabus" and "discourse analysis" in relation to ESP materials, extra-linguistic principles in explaining language facts, diphthongation in "Kechwa de Ancash-Huaylas," and a typology of language situations. The first article is a discussion of some aspects of the practical classroom presentation of texts in scientific English using recently published textbooks. The second article is a discussion of terms: notional syllabus refers to the organization of a syllabus according to semantic expression. Discourse analysis refers to the informational coherence of texts, and the markers used to point the way to understanding such texts. In the third paper, some of the extra-linguistic principles related to language use that enable human beings to interact socially are discussed. The distinctive features of one of the dialects in the Quechua group of dialects are analyzed in the fourth article. Thirty types of communication situations involving interaction of the five factors: "speaker, listener, channel, code and information" are discussed and classified in the last article. (AMH)

This issue contains three articles in Spanish, with abstracts in English, dealing with the following topics: (1) technical and scientific language; (2) some types of misrenderings by students in translating from English to Spanish and implications for language instruction; and (3) some theoretical aspects of the formation of technical terms in English. The distinction between scientific and technical language is discussed in the first article, particularly the difference between the language of cultural sciences and the language of natural sciences and mathematics, and the influence of the particular language on scientific language in it. In the second article, three general types of misrenderings are classified on the basis of their source: omission, addition and substitution. According to its complexity, subtypes within each type are analyzed. Pedagogical implications are given. In the third article, the discussion focuses on the important role played by the communication process in scientific and technological research both in conveying information and expressing it properly. Of equal importance is the understanding of the process of formation of scientific and technical terminology. Terms, definitions and concepts are analyzed to enable the reader, particularly the second language teacher, to understand the mechanism involved in the creation of words and concepts. (AMH)

This article describes a plan to develop bilingualism carried out by the parents of a child of pre-school age who died of brain cancer at the age of five. The child learned German, the language of his father, and Spanish, the language of his mother, consecutively. (CFM)