THE EFFECTIVENESS OF AN INTEREST-MOTIVATED METHOD OF INSTRUCTION IN REMEDIAL ENGLISH WAS EVALUATED. ALL STUDENTS INVOLVED IN THE PROJECT WERE PERSONS WHO HAD GRADUATED FROM HIGH SCHOOLS IN THE LOWER 40 PERCENT OF THEIR CLASSES. THEY WERE ADMITTED TO COLLEGE ON A PROBATIONARY BASIS. EIGHT GROUPS OF STUDENTS WERE INVOLVED. FOUR GROUPS WERE…

Gives advice for English teachers faced with the increasingly multiethnic makeup of their classrooms. Discusses what rainbow teachers must not do along with what they must do. (HB)

An English teacher discusses the advantages and disadvantages of discussion-based teaching approaches, student understanding, and student achievement. It is noted that the discussion-based approaches in the classroom have a direct impact on students' development as readers.

In this article, the author reflects on the use of research to inform teaching in Statement Five of the Australian Association for the Teaching of English (AATE) "Statements of Belief". Statement 5 says, "We use research and evidence to inform teaching practice and improve the learning of students." All educational research is…

Discusses the formulation of a departmental policy by English teachers to report student progress to parents and lists the criteria for evaluating student performance. (RB)

Examines the thesis that the junior college is an intricately ordered mechanism for structuring and concealing the mass failure of the academically non-gifted students. (RB)

The Urbana Conference on Competence in English met for six days in February 1977 to discuss competence in English. The Conference included 12 representatives of various professional associations, college and school teachers, members of state and national agencies, and dealt with general issues of competence as it affected the teaching and learning…

Owing to enormous and unprecedented expansion in technological, scientific and economic activities in the past few decades the demand for learning at least one foreign language has occurred. Moreover, new developments in Educational Psychology have given rise to an increasing emphasis on importance of learners' needs, interests, motivation,…

A study of 265 National Technical Institute for the Deaf students was undertaken to determine whether participation in English language courses resulted in an improvement in English language skills and whether a relationship exists between a student's entry level into the English program and the rate of progress a student makes. (PHR)

Considers how if educators focus their efforts on providing all students with a challenging curriculum, most of them should be able to perform well on whatever assessment they face. Concludes that if educators provide every child with a clean, well-lighted place to learn; coherent instructional materials; and a competent, caring teacher, student…

In this article, I argue that 9th-grade English can be a fertile environment for demonstrating that students who come to high school with diverse skill levels and from racially and socioeconomically diverse communities can learn with and from each other. It is not enough, however, that the 9th-grade English teacher believes that all students can…

This research has been done to find out the factors influencing the students' successes in learning a foreign language (English). In other words; the effects of the methods and techniques, used by the teachers on the staff to teach the chosen foreign language, on the students' success. The main aim of this study to make the foreign language…

Notes that within the past five years, the national standards movement has prompted many states to turn to the use of test scores to hold students and teachers accountable to higher standards in academic achievement. Discusses the unintended consequences: pervasive emotional pressure, reductionist views of literacy, conflicted views of teaching…

This general achievement trends profile includes information that the Center on Education Policy (CEP) and the Human Resources Research Organization (HumRRO) obtained from states from fall 2008 through April 2009. Included herein are: (1) Bullet points summarizing key findings about achievement trends in that state at three performance…

Argues that educational standards in Saskatchewan, Canada high schools must be raised in the areas of reading and writing. (RB)