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Simon, Paul L.; Simon, Regina A. – 1978
This selective bibliography lists books and some dissertations and theses relating to ethnicity. It is intended for junior and senior high school students, undergraduate college students, and the general public. The objective is to help ethnic groups, community agencies, and individuals in Cincinnati locate relevant source material concerning…
Descriptors: Adult Education, American Indians, Anglo Americans, Arabs
Politzer, Robert L.; Lewis, Shirley A. – 1979
A study was undertaken to confirm previous findings on the relation between teacher performance on the "Teacher Test of Black English" (TTBE), certain teaching behaviors (direct correction, establishing a set, and "directly relevant" teaching), and the achievement of Vernacular Black English speaking students. In addition, the study sought to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Dialects, Black Students, Educational Research
McDavid, Raven I., Jr., Ed. – 1965
Four historical studies, carried out under the direction of Professor Raven I. McDavid and reported in this monograph, trace the various attitudes toward language study expressed in the journals (1911-63) of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). For the years between 1911 and 1929, Betty Gawthrop reports a cautious questioning of the…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Attitudes, Curriculum Development, Educational Trends
Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis. Center for Curriculum Development in English. – 1968
This 11th-grade language unit focuses on dialectology, the regional variations of American English, and the causes for the differences and similarities in language usage in the United States. Issues surveyed in the unit are (1) the historical basis for dialect differences from the time of the early colonists, (2) current speech characteristics of…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Curriculum Guides, Dialects, English Instruction
Hess, Karen M.; Maxwell, John C. – 1969
As part of the development of a self-teaching program for instructing teachers of English and elementary language arts about dialects, a comprehensive search of the literature on dialects and dialect learning, from 1960 to the present, was made. This paper sets forth some of the major ideas, points of view, and recommendations revealed by the…
Descriptors: Dialect Studies, Dialects, English Instruction, Language Handicaps
Bloomfield, Morton W. – 1970
Seventeen reprinted essays and an unpublished one are contained in this collection and organized under five headings: History of Ideas, Approaches to Medieval Literature, Chaucer and Fourteenth-Century English Literature, Language and Linguistics, and Essay-Reviews. Topics discussed include the origin of the concept of the Seven Cardinal Sins;…
Descriptors: Allegory, Concept Formation, English Literature, Epics
Lieberman, Philip – 1971
Human linguistic ability depends, in part, on the gradual evolution of man's supralaryngeal vocal tract. The anatomic basis of human speech production is the result of a long evolutionary process in which the Darwinian process of natural selection acted to retain mutations. For auditory perception, the listener operates in terms of the acoustic…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Anatomy, Articulation (Speech), Computational Linguistics
Albertson, Roxanne M. – 1976
On August 26, 1831, educators attending a meeting of the American Institute of Instruction confirmed the need for physical exercise in schools, but wanted to determine what type of exercise program would be invigorating, utilitarian, interesting, and provide moral development. Advocates of manual labor programs stressed that physical labor…
Descriptors: American History, Athletics, Child Labor, Educational History
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Piper, David – Language Arts, 1987
Discusses how the term "race" is used in English-speaking cultures and proposes ways for handling the language of race in language arts classrooms. Points out that racial issues provide means for developing critical thinking skills and help students learn about how societies in general function. (SKC)
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Cross Cultural Training, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
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Axtell, James – History Teacher, 1979
Recommends enlarging perspectives of colonial American history by expanding geographic boundaries and ethnic group considerations, emphasizing ethnohistory, and enlarging time period studies. Benefits include possibilities for indigenous comparative history, comparative history of colonization, and interdisciplinary history. (CK)
Descriptors: American History, American Indians, Colonial History (United States), Colonialism
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Budzhak-Jones, Svitlana; Poplack, Shana – Journal of Sociolinguistics, 1997
Examines the quantitative conditioning of English lone nouns of one language used in discourse in Ukrainian in a Canadian setting. Results yield a synchronic portrait of the integrated loanword, even when it bears no surface indication of that integration, is neither recurrent nor widespread, and has no history of attestation or other status in…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Descriptive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
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Pulcini, Virginia – World Englishes, 1997
Chronicles attitudes toward the spread of English usage in Italy during the twentieth century, focusing on the Americanization of Italian society. Finds two radically different reactions to the penetration of American culture: hostility and xenophobia during the first half of the century, and accommodation and acceptance after World War II. Also…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Education, English, English (Second Language)
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Benson, Morton – TESOL Quarterly, 1989
Educational programs for teachers of English as a Second Language must devote more attention to differences between the standard varieties of American and British English, with instruction focusing on the major orthographic, morphological, syntactic, collocational, and lexical differences. (CB)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Dialects, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
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McKenna, Katherine – History and Social Science Teacher, 1989
Presents evidence of unconscious bias in the content of the 1986 Ontario Curriculum Guideline for History and Contemporary Studies. Examines sex bias in the liberal-progressive view of history which undergirds the curriculum and explores gender bias present in the theoretical assumptions underlying the guidelines. (LS)
Descriptors: Curriculum, Curriculum Evaluation, Curriculum Research, Educational Theories
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McMurtry, John – Canadian Social Studies, 1995
Asserts that contemporary history and historiography is "official" history that ignores the daily struggles of people for their continued survival. Argues that, while public illiteracy has nearly disappeared, individuals are ignorant of the wealth of primary-source materials of other cultures' histories. (CFR)
Descriptors: Canada Natives, Cultural Differences, Cultural Images, Elementary Secondary Education
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