This series of "Lessons in English" comprises two books. Book I (ED622250), intended to be used within the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth grades, covers either two or three years, according to the amount of time allowed for language work, the age of the pupils, and their previous training. Book II contains a systematic course in grammar…

This series of "Lessons in English" comprises two books. Book I (ED622252) is intended to be used within the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth grades. Book II is intended to cover the work of the seventh and eighth grades. It seeks to create a liking for good literature by presenting worthy selections to be read, studied, copied, and…

This textbook is designed to guide children to an intelligent appreciation and enjoyment of good English, to help them speak and write correctly, and to introduce them to the study of grammar. The book provides selections from good authors, in prose and verse, together with full instructions for their use in different ways. Exercises for reading,…

This textbook is designed to guide children to an intelligent appreciation and enjoyment of good English, to help them speak and write correctly, and to introduce them to the study of grammar. The book provides selections from good authors, in prose and verse, together with full instructions for their use in different ways. Exercises for reading,…

This textbook is designed to guide children to an intelligent appreciation and enjoyment of good English, to help them speak and write correctly, and to introduce them to the study of grammar. The book provides selections from good authors, in prose and verse, together with full instructions for their use in different ways. Exercises for reading,…

"The Mother Tongue" is introduced to the British teacher as an excellent example of the best way of teaching a vernacular in the early stage. This edition has been revised to make it more completely at home in an English schoolroom, but in essentials it remains the work of its American authors. This textbook is designed to guide children…

A defense of prescriptivism against charges that it is bad linguistics and a form of tyranny. (DD)

This column shares innovative lesson ideas grounded in current literature or action research. Two books are discussed: Lesley Atwater Kahle's book "Cut Word Story," which allows students to become individually engrossed in words and grammar within stories that they create; and Anete Vasquez's "Literary Analysis 101", which gives teachers a simple,…

Rhetorical grammar analysis encourages students to view writing as a material social practice in which meaning is actively made, rather than passively relayed or effortlessly produced. The study of rhetorical grammar can demonstrate to students that language does purposeful, consequential work in the world--work that can be learned and applied.

Several strands of research in applied linguistics have increasingly focused their attention on the application of genre theory to the classroom. In advanced academics, the genres of disciplinary communities serve gate-keeping functions that students must negotiate in order to succeed in their academic endeavors. Often without explicit…

This article presents several winning activities for students in the classroom. These activities include: (1) making Abraham Lincoln costumes; (2) creating frosty scenes from torn-paper collage for a grammar activity; (3) listening to Dr. Martin Luther King's "I have a Dream" speech; (4) hosting an architectural challenge for a kindergarten class;…

Many approaches to literacy instruction treat language as an object of study. The curricular assumptions that inform such instruction are that language is located outside the person, extracted from context, neutral, and explicable through defined rules. An underlying assumption in many language arts classrooms is that children will not pay…

Whereas most research on child second language acquisition has focused on the oral production of children, studies are needed to illuminate patterns of literacy development in a second language. This paper aims to shed some light on this process, focusing on the English writing development of a native Spanish speaker, and on the Spanish writing…

This paper shows how top-down and bottom-up approaches can be reconciled in EAP writing materials through a pedagogic approach which combines discourse analysis with corpus investigation. The materials have been trialled with approximately 40 international graduates and are designed both to introduce concordancing and to raise awareness of certain…