A five-week summer conference was arranged for high school English teachers in South Carolina to learn more about what happens as students learn to write, what teaching strategies would enhance their development, and how better writing courses might be designed and implemented. Participants, who wrote almost daily, were asked to examine their own…

To assist future directors and tutors of a particular writing laboratory, this report outlines some of the procedures and activities that were involved in the first year of the laboratory's operation. The report outlines efforts to publicize the program with the administration and students, relates communication efforts between the laboratory and…

In an instructional experiment in poetry in a college English literature course, chronology of publication and labels of authorship were ignored in the study of Wordsworth and Coleridge's "Lyrical Ballads." In the original plan for the "Lyrical Ballads," Coleridge was to supply poems treating supernatural elements as real,…

Noting that psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg's pedagogical approach is predicated on the classroom discussion of moral dilemmas, this paper suggests that its affinity to the teaching of literature, communication, and composition is a natural one. The first part of the paper offers a detailed explication of Kohlberg's stages of moral development,…

DEVELOPED FOR USE IN THE MADISON, WISCONSIN, PUBLIC SCHOOLS, THIS GUIDE FOR GRADES K-6 PROVIDES THE FRAMEWORK FOR AN INTEGRATED LANGUAGE ARTS PROGRAM WITH EMPHASIS ON LISTENING AND SPEAKING. THE OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAM ARE STATED IN TERMS OF THE EXPECTED ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE AVERAGE STUDENT. A FLOW CHART, ARRANGED FROM AGES 5-12, SHOWS THE…

GENERAL STATEMENTS ABOUT THE MORAL VALUE OF LITERATURE HAVE PROVED TO BE UNSUCCESSFUL IN DISSUADING POTENTIAL CENSORS. MORE EFFECTIVE ARE ARGUMENTS WHICH CONVINCE THE PERSON WHO ATTEMPTS TO CENSOR LITERATURE THAT HE IS VIOLATING HIS OWN SOCIAL, POLITICAL, OR MORAL STANDARDS. HOWEVER, THESE, ALSO, ARE FREQUENTLY TOO GENERAL TO BE CONVINCING.…

TO SURVEY THE TEACHING OF LINGUISTICS IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS, THE EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE (ETS) ASKED 650 ENGLISH TEACHERS TO COMPLETE QUESTIONNAIRES DESIGNED TO ELICIT INFORMATION ABOUT THE KIND AND EXTENT OF THEIR LINGUISTICS TRAINING, THE NATURE AND SIZE OF THE POPULATIONS STUDYING LINGUSTICS IN THEIR CLASSES, AND THE VOCABULARY AND CONTENT…

NAMES AND ADDRESSES OF THE SCHOOLS USING THE "MIAMI LINGUISTIC READERS" SERIES AND THE NAMES OF TEACHER REPRESENTATIVES AND COORDINATORS FOR EACH GROUP IN THE OUT-OF-STATE FIELD TRIAL (1964-65) ARE LISTED. REPRESENTATIVES WERE FROM ARIZONA, CALIFORNIA, PUERTO RICO, COLORADO, NEW MEXICO, AND TEXAS.

AN INVESTIGATION OF PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION MATERIALS FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS WAS UNDERTAKEN TO PROVIDE INFORMATION ON POSSIBLE CHANGES IN SELF-ACCEPTANCE ATTITUDES. THE SAMPLE INCLUDED 80 STUDENTS, RANDOMLY DIVIDED INTO FIVE GROUPS, FROM THE LINCOLN COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL, PANACA, NEVADA. TRADITIONAL ENGLISH INSTRUCTION USING CONVENTIONAL TEXTBOOKS…

Perhaps because writing is a comparatively recent development in human history, it is more difficult to teach than any other aspect of communication. It is essential in teaching writing to enlist the interest and the pleasure of the pupil. Some ways to do this include: preceding the writing process with speaking and listening, providing for…

This paper describes how one teacher has taken the findings of the research done by Shaughnessy as reported in her book, "Errors and Expectations," and the findings of James Britton as reported in his book, "The Development of Writing Abilities (11-18)," and has developed a series of class activities based on their…

THROUGH INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP EXPERIENCES IN CREATIVE DRAMATICS, CHILDREN CAN DEVELOP SELF-REALIZATION AS THEY BECOME INVOLVED IN THINKING, FEELING, AND EXPERIENCING. CREATIVE DRAMA AFFORDS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE CONSTRUCTIVE CHANNELING OF EMOTIONS, DEVELOPS APPRECIATION OF THE WONDERS AND BEAUTY OF THE WORLD, PROMOTES THE ACQUISITION AND RETENTION…

In "The Red Badge of Courage," Stephen Crane overcomes serious artistic difficulties to depict a complicated psychological change in his protagonist, Henry Fleming, an unsophisticated and inarticulate farm boy. To embody the development of this protagonist, Crane uses a series of thematically-related incidents and a set of thematic…

The basic issues of the "new" rhetoric include (1) the ways in which contemporary rhetoric is "new", (2) some of the problems facing contemporary rhetoric, and (3) the relation of rhetoric to the teaching of English. Two factors contributing to the concept of a "new" discipline are a revival of interest in classical rhetoric and the development of…

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)