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formational-grammar popularizations all the way to the position set forth by Chomsky at the 1966 Northeast Conference-and thereafter widely misunderstood-that linguistic theory has at the present time nothing to contribute to a language-teaching technology. However, between these twin misconceptions-on the one hand by a number of textbook authors as to the real meaning of transformation, and on the other by a large number of linguistic half-sophisticates as to the relevance for language teaching of any aspect of transformational grammar-there can be found a very significant body of published research which either applies, or characterizes the application of, certain findings of generative grammar to the construction of language teaching materials. The key word in the last passage is findings, for it is above all the

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