Reports on the conference proceedings of the Australian Association of Teachers of English. (RB)

Describes the results of an effort to introduce elective courses in English to students in form three. (RB)

Suggests that the methods course instructor must replicate whatever language arts instruction is advocated for the schools in the area of language acquisition and the role of language in society. (RB)

To give English teachers specific direction in teaching reading skills to secondary students, the writers planned and implemented a reading skills instructional program. (RB)

Describes a technique for involving students in a written dialogue with their instructors via the papers that form the core of the composition program. (RB)

Discusses the enrollment and financial problems facing institutions of higher education, especially departments of English. (RB)

Comments on eight changes initiated in the late sixties that would alter English programs during the seventies. (RB)

States that English is the most difficult subject to learn, contrary to popular myth, and that the efforts of English teachers must be proportionately more determined in order to prevent mass miseducation. (RB)

Explores some of the important aspects of language learning in the teaching of English in the United Kingdom. (RB)

Examines several poems by Walt Whitman which serve as an appropriate conclusion to the first half of a survey course in American literature. (RB)

Concludes that English teachers must still translate the new philosophy of education into practice. (Author)

Presents the recommendations of the Panel on Alternate Approaches to Graduate Education, followed by statements of reaction written by three professors of English and a doctoral graduate student.

Discusses the role the humanities, especially English, can play in developing a social philosophy for the future which incorporates technological progress with appropriate attitudes and thought patterns. (RB)

Examines the views of Marshall McLuhan for their relevance to English teachers wishing to develop a media oriented curriculum. (RB)