For three years (including 1968-69), remedial English has been taught at Golden West College (California) to groups of 200-365 students. Follow-up studies, begun with the opening of the College, have indicated that the student who completes the remedial program and proceeds to freshman composition has a better chance of success (C or better) than…

Unlike other modern fictional heroes, Captain Lee, the South Korean intelligence officer in Richard Kim's novel, "The Martyred," achieves personal fulfillment only when he sacrifices his passionate principles and joins the "establishment." As part of his military job, he is required to investigate and affirm the heroism of 12…

The purpose of this study is to examine the concept of individualization of instruction as it applies to high school English instruction. The first two chapters of the study provide the rationale for individualizing high school English instruction, chapters 3 and 4 suggest a strategy, and the final chapter presents a summary and conclusions.…

This paper argues that the prevailing tendency in the teaching of literature today is to rely too heavily on secondary material. An approach to training English majors to explicate and evaluate literature on their own is described. Students should understand that literature is not often autobiographical, that the writer's original intent is not…

Human words must be rapidly recognized by a computer system designed to maintain an interactive dialogue with humans. This paper discusses features of the PLATO IV-TUTOR system which facilitates the matching of words and concepts offered by students to those proposed by lesson authors. The first section examines a word recognition algorithm that…

The annotated bibliography which constituted the bulk of this masters thesis focuses on material dealing with rhetorical invention and the act of creativity and should be useful to the teacher of composition. Articles and books from other disciplines, as well as those from the field of English, are included. Items are divided into four categories:…

This 9-week course outline (a weekly list of readings) is designed to acquaint students with the chief stories, characters, events, and passages from the Bible which are commonly referred to, alluded to, or used as themes, symbols, or motifs in Western literature. Using "The Bible, Selections from the King James Version for Study as Literature" as…

Combining literature and composition courses, this experimental program at Oklahoma State University attempted to develop composition skills utilizing literature as subject matter. Literary works, grading systems, and types of composition assignments differed between two randomly-chosen experimental classes, but teachers in both classes employed…

The purpose of this study was to compare two different methods of teaching college-level English grammar and composition, the linguistic method and the traditional method, to freshman students at a large midwestern university. English students enrolled in the introductory English grammar and composition course served as subjects. The experimental…

Discussed in some detail is the policy statement of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) concerning the English teacher workload, which states (briefly) (1) in order to make it possible for English teachers in secondary schools to give an accountable performance, schools and their communities must recognize that maintaining class…

In an attempt to resolve questions raised by critics of high school literature anthologies, this study (1) examined the contents of 216 anthologies produced between 1917 and 1957, containing 9,034 distinct selections written by 1,947 authors, and (2) related these anthologies to the educational policies of three periods marked off by the Hosic…

To examine the effectiveness of Lehigh County Community College's developmental English program, an experiment was undertaken which investigaged the differences in English composition, mechanics, and effectiveness achievement between two groups of randomly selected students scheduled to take a developmental English course. Of the 20 in each group,…

In the fall of 1970, Hofstra University instituted a policy of exempting those students from English 1 and 2 who had demonstrated superior writing ability on achievement tests and in high school English courses. The question investigated was whether eliminating the "better" students from English 1 would have an effect on the grades…

This book is intended to serve as a starting point for the beginning mass media instructor. It is divided into five parts: (1) "Background on Mass Media Influence" will give the teacher grounds for inclusion of mass media study in the classroom; (2) "Subject Matter" gives capsule information on the subject area for the teacher; (3) "Sample…

This book, which concerns the teaching of English, is composed of two parts. Part One--The Imaginative Faculty contains the following chapters: 1. "The First Year: The Rediscovery of the Familiar"; 2. "The Second and Third Years: The Growth of Consciousness"; 3. "The Final Stage: Imagination and Morality"; and 4. "The Dramatic Experience." Part…