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Keh, Claudia L. – Guidelines: A Periodical for Classroom Language Teachers, 1989
The dicto-comp is a type of controlled writing combining text dictation and text reconstruction. The rationale and methods for using it in a Hong Kong high school class are described. (two references) (LB)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Dictation, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedJago, Carol – English Journal, 1989
Presents a model for working with students at risk, helping them develop critical thinking, listening, reading, and writing skills. Includes cooperation of the local community relations officer for the police department. (RAE)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Communication Skills, Crime Prevention, Critical Reading
Download full textWillinsky, John; Bobie, Allen – 1986
Statewide competency testing as a high school graduation requirement represents a threat to those who encourage broad notions of reading and writing, even when a number of testing innovations in reading and writing mean a step forward in education. In Alberta, Canada, the English exam comes in a non-academic and an academic version, and…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, English Curriculum, Essays, Foreign Countries
