The flip-side of teaching-as-delivery is assessment-as-ventriloquism. Required to describe pupils and their progress through the language of Level Descriptors and exam grade criteria, any teacher risks losing her voice. This article notes the hierarchising and normalising intention of currently authorised versions of assessment, and looks for a…

This inquiry into the digital discussion forums tied to two English classes in an urban public high school examines the potential of new media to honor the multicultural composition of classrooms and support teachers to design culturally sustaining pedagogies. Given the increasing significance of digital media as well as the growing diversity of…

This article examines constructions of "American" identity and place in the first influential guides for English teaching published in the United States at the cusp of the 20th Century. It recovers how English teaching was to weaken youths' ties to more immediate people and places and to reorient their sense of self, others and the…

Skill in intelligently analyzing any medium can be applied to any other medium. (JH)

Gorgias' rhetoric can be explained in three parts: his sensory-based but non-empirical epistemology; his definitions of language as inherently deceptive and of "doxa" as the only "knowledge" communicable; and his antithetical style, which reproduces the necessary negotiation of understanding in the world. Gorgias' epistemology…

Provides examples of ways in which the linguistic environment is constantly changing. (DD)

THIS PORTFOLIO, PREPARED BY THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH COMMISSION ON THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, CONTAINS SIX LEAFLETS ON LITERARY WORKS SIGNIFICANT TO THE HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE--(1) "BEOWULF," (2) "THE PETERBOROUGH CHRONICLE," (3) "CANTERBURY TALES," (4) WILLIAM CAXTON'S "PROLOGUE TO THE BOKE OF ENEYDOS," (5) SECOND QUARTO OF…

Examines the style, plot, setting, characterization, theme, and language of "The Hobbit and "The Lord of the Rings trilogy. (SW)

SINCE LINGUISTICS IS A SCIENCE AND COMPOSITION IS A SKILL, THE TWO AREAS MEET ONLY WHEN THE LINGUIST AND THE TEACHER OF COMPOSITION DESCEND FROM THEIR PRIMARY OCCUPATIONS TO THE PRACTICAL CONSIDERATION OF HOW ONE WORD IS PLACED AFTER ANOTHER IN A SENTENCE. THE LINGUIST CONCERNS HIMSELF MAINLY WITH COLLECTING AND ARRANGING INFORMATION TO SUPPORT OR…

English is made up of literature (the art of letters) and its essential component, language. Media adaptations may make literary works superficially more vivid, but since all such adaptations are divorced from the form of the original, they all differ from the original in important respects. While teachers must point out the significant…

This annotated bibliography lists 18 primary books on general semantics and 52 books, pamphlets, and recordings on related subjects; all of which can be ordered from the Society. (DL)

Human words must be rapidly recognized by a computer system designed to maintain an interactive dialogue with humans. This paper discusses features of the PLATO IV-TUTOR system which facilitates the matching of words and concepts offered by students to those proposed by lesson authors. The first section examines a word recognition algorithm that…

Analyzes the evils of political and commercial doublespeak and contends that they can be alleviated by the truth of good literature. (DD)