It was the purpose of this study to evaluate the pre-service and in-service education of English teachers of culturally disadvantaged students in the state of Georgia. Interviews, in which questionnaires were used, were conducted in 12 colleges and universities, with 15 rural and urban English teachers, and with English supervisory personnel. The…

This document is designed to aid the teacher in bridging the gap created by apparently divergent approaches to the study of language. It attempts to identify certain basic assumptions prerequisite to the study of language and to give the teacher an overview of the traditional, structural, and transformational-generative approaches to the study of…

The importance of the accumulating fund of language-related information available to teachers is the result of several developments: (1) There has been an increase in the amount of available research data; (2) The computer has made possible research previously impossible to design; (3) Data are more readily available through centers with acronymic…

The research attempted to determine whether or not there was any difference between the scores of two groups of juniors, both of which had no freshman composition instruction, but one of which (Group 1) had composition instruction in the junior year and the other (Group 2) had not. Three measures, COOP, CEEB, and a theme, were administered at the…

This study was conducted to determine the effect of remedial instruction in English usage upon writing competence in a college business letter-writing course. It was hypothesized that remedial instruction in English usage would not affect an individual's letter-writing achievements. Subjects were 50 matched pairs (IQ, Freshman English, grade, age,…

Essays by experts concerned with teaching of English are contained in this book. The essays appear in one of the four parts into which the book is divided, as follows: Part One: Curriculum Sequence and Structure; Part Two: Problems in Planning and Curriculum Development; Part Three: Methods of Teaching; and Part Four: Research Issues and New…

THE EFFECTIVENESS OF AN INTEREST-MOTIVATED METHOD OF INSTRUCTION IN REMEDIAL ENGLISH WAS EVALUATED. ALL STUDENTS INVOLVED IN THE PROJECT WERE PERSONS WHO HAD GRADUATED FROM HIGH SCHOOLS IN THE LOWER 40 PERCENT OF THEIR CLASSES. THEY WERE ADMITTED TO COLLEGE ON A PROBATIONARY BASIS. EIGHT GROUPS OF STUDENTS WERE INVOLVED. FOUR GROUPS WERE…

BY IDENTIFYING AND STUDYING SECONDARY ENGLISH PROGRAMS WHICH WERE REPORTED TO BE OUTSTANDING, THE INVESTIGATORS SOUGHT TO IDENTIFY CHARACTERISTICS OF SUPERIOR PROGRAMS WHICH MIGHT BE EMULATED IN OTHER SCHOOLS. TO GUIDE STAFF MEMBERS IN PLANNING, 12 HYPOTHESES WERE FORMULATED. THE METHOD USED WAS A SERIES OF CASE STUDIES OF INDIVIDUAL ENGLISH…

A variety of foolproof ways to avoid teaching composition while appearing to teach it may be divided into two groups: methods which actually teach something else and methods which allow the teacher to appear to be teaching writing while keeping instruction of any kind to a minimum. Some of the subjects disguised as writing are communications,…

Common grading practices are parodied. (JH)

Explores ways that science fiction can be used in the classroom in discussions of world affairs, social studies, and science. (HOD)

Draws on the work of students in several classes to argue that the best stimulus for creative writing involves a fusion of comprehension, note-taking, and discussion work to provide a ready-made thematic structure for students' work. (AA)

Provides a chronological overview of the author's teaching experience, which has led to greater emphasis on principles, techniques, and structures in the teaching of writing. (AA)