Stresses the importance of teaching spoken English to adolescents and provides suggestions for activities and skills. (RB)

Describes two accounts of practical classroom based research which, through socio-dramatic and creative writing activities, examine particular sex and authority role behaviors among students at the secondary level. (RB)

Examines three surveys of writing in Australian schools, based on the model used by the British Schools Council Project ("The Written Language of 11-18 Year Olds"). (RL)

Directs attention to informal varieties of inservice teacher education, such as that provided by the contact between practicing English teachers and consultants. (HOD)

Describes an assignment for the study of Shakespeare's "King Lear" in which the students were to take a small section they thought thematically important and describe clearly how the page should be read and performed. (HOD)

Describes a teaching experiment for the study of literature in which students focus on "special authors" and use is made of such teaching strategies as group work, full class discussion, wide reading, and individual research. (HOD)

Suggests the substitution of nonsense words for various parts of speech as a way of enabling children to understand the structural way parts of speech operate. (TO)

Describes the situation in the United States, with emphasis on the bidialectical approach to speakers of Black English, and related problems in language theory and teacher training. (SP)

Author questions assumptions about formal criticism that are made, consciously or unconsciously, by teachers of English. (Editor)

Considers current research into television viewing and its possible influence on student behavior; analyzes international developments in mass media and the cultural influences they may impose in the future; and suggests ways English teachers might face and oppose this new culture through language. (FL)

Reports on an experiment during which English teachers collected pieces of writing that their students had prepared for assessment and gave them to other English teachers for grading. (HOD)

Discusses the need for a reformed English curriculum. (HOD)

Suggests classroom strategies that make the most of language to enhance children's learning and offers guidance in developing a language policy for the classroom and the school. (HOD)

Summarizes the discussions and findings of a working party within the Australian Commission on Language Development, which focused on ways of promoting children's language development. (HOD)

Responds to the cries of a "great illiteracy scandal." Notes where some of the problems exist in literacy instruction, and why they might contribute to a literacy crisis. (RL)