Texas Papers in Foreign Language Education, 1995.

Papers on foreign language education include: "Beliefs About Language Learning: A Study of Korean University Students Learning English" (Susan N. Truitt), which looked at the influence of cultural background and experience on language learning attitudes; "Motivation as a Two-Sided Coin: Motivational Differences Between College-Level Chinese and Japanese Learners of EFL" (Bill Teweles); "A Psycholinguistic Study of Relative Pronoun Use by Native Speakers and Non-Native Speakers of English" (Miho Yorozu), which focuses on developmental stages in learners' interlanguage systems and the relationship between language learning attitudes and language proficiency; "The Compensation Model" (Gi-Pyo Park), which proposes a model to help explain the difference between child and adult language acquisition in terms of different cognitive modules and theories; "Communicating Through Poetry in an ESL Classroom" (Mary Starz), demonstrating the use of poetry to teach intonation, adjectives, verbs, pronunciation, and syntax as well as self- expression; and "The Status of Foreign Language in the Elementary School in Austin: Is the Spirit Willing and the FLES Still Weak?" (Zena T. Moore, Angela Ramsay), reporting results of a study of foreign language instruction in Austin (Texas) elementary schools. (MSE)