This paper explores categorial properties of ECM and control infinitive complements in English. Paying special attention to the head-to-head relation between 1 and C in the two types of complements, it proposes that I-to-C movement is prerequisite for the selectional checking in control infinitives.

The object of language learning is to develop communicative competence. This paper intends to include gesture competence as an indispensable constituent in communicative competence. Gesture competence refers to the comprehension and production of different gestures from each culture. The main purpose of this paper is to place a high value upon the role of gesture competence as an entree accessible to the culture of the target language. This paper serves to help foreign language leamers recognize the importance of gesture competence with which they can speak a foreign language more naturally and more easily.

The purpose of this paper is to suggest a more methodical and efficient means to make Korean high school students understand the usages of two French past tenses, viz passé composé and imparfait. The paper shows that these two tenses are distributed in a complementary way on textual level, and that two conceptual devices developed by Weinrich, foreground and middle ground, can be useful for the teachers' teaching skills. The paper also discusses the anaphoricity, redefined and remodulated by Berthonneau and Kleiber on the semantico-pragmatic basis, for a new means of teaching French past tenses.

The purpose of this paper is to suggest a model of teaching German poetry on the basis of the theory of literary communication. This paper uses the poems of Rainer Maria Rilke as the main text of the study. The paper shows that a model of teaching through a new media of “ intemet" needs students’ active participation, and that such a model is effective to develop the students' creativity in appreciating poetry.

ThÎs article presents an initial frarnework for analyzing teacher responses. The analysis attempts to illuminate the support to the idea that leaming is an interactive process. From this Vygotskian viewpoint, teacher talk is a channel by which leamers participate in a leaming process so that the learning process can be appropriated. An analysis has been done with a middle-school classroom talk. A video-taped 7 minute episode showed that the teacher-leamer conversations lack in the function of co-constructing. A modified episode is presented to illustrate a more interactive and elaborate teacher talk.

πle purpose of this paper is to suggest the feasibility of a new direction of EFL learner needs assessment in Korea. π1Îs paper relates theoretical concepts and methodological frameworks in needs assessment in general to the p때lC비따 concem with needs assessment in TEFL. 까le paper also discusses a new direction of the needs assessment in terms of the “ leah1er-centered” system, thc 폐 needs" type, the “process-oriented" interpretation, and the “democratic" approach.