Discussions of English department identity and mission more often center on the undergraduate major curriculum than on classes for general-studies and other non-major students. In such courses, though, educators have an opportunity to touch the intellectual lives of far more people than they do in courses for majors. The author argues in this…

The availability of new technology and a willingness to experiment led Laura Christine Rochette to re-imagine a successful high school English curriculum. A SMART Board, individual laptop computers, and blogs became essential tools to enhance the learning of all students and to renew her excitement about teaching.

Prue Gill calls for a national English curriculum that appreciates the complex relationship between curriculum and assessment, one that is supported by strong government investment in professional learning, and one that will enable young people to imagine a different future from that which has been imagined for them by their elders.

This study aims to investigate how the teachers who have different background characteristics perceive the goals and content of the English language curriculum implemented at the 6th, 7th and 8th grades of public primary schools. The study was conducted during the 2004-2005 school year with 368 English teachers selected from the seven regions of…

A list of films judged most useful for film and media study courses. (JH)

Describes a successful linguistics program and suggests that linguistics can make a substantial contribution to the college English department. (DD)

Haiku is a Japanese poem that deals with nature and contains seventeen syllables divided among three lines in the pattern of 5-7-5. Senryu is also a disciplined Japanese poem which deals directly with people and ideas. In Haiku, the reader utilizes imagination; in senryu, the interpretation has been supplied. Here are some creative suggestions for…

Charles Suhor, deputy executive director of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), responds to Allan Glatthorn's charge that the NCTE is reluctant to offer specific recommendations about curricular content. (TE)

A project was taken to any extended work, on one topic or a related group of topics, and carried out by an individual or group in which an exceptional amount of initiative comes from the child. Resources come from conventional in-school sources and the out-of-school environment. (Author/AS)

An adequate theory of language must take into consideration various elements of language, both mechanistic and cultural. (AS)

A summary of the emphases of annual Counciletter" columns since 1965. (RD)

A summary of the emphases of annual "Counciletter" columns since 1965; appears also in "Elementary English," vol. 48, no. 3 (March 1971), pp. 288-89. (RD)

A summary of the emphases of annual Counciletter" columns since 1965; appears also in Elementary English," vol. 48, no. 3 (March 1971), pp. 288-89, and in English Journal," vol. 60, no. 3 (March 1971), pp. 390-91. (RD)

A one-semester elective course called Independent Study, which was offered by the English Department of Pius XI High School in Milwaukee, is described. (JW)