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Kimball, Lillian G. – American Book Company, 1911
This textbook is an elementary English course based upon two fundamental facts in regard to language: (1) the purpose of language is communication of thought; and (2) the use of language is an art. The book also provides a complete and progressive course of instruction in the use of the dictionary as an aid to both oral and written language.…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Dictionaries, English Instruction, Language Usage
Belanger, Joe; Evans, Peter J. A. – 1993
A survey of textbooks and official Ministry of Education programs of study for the Province of Ontario, Canada, revealed three stages in the history of teaching English language in intermediate and secondary schools. Prior to the mid-1960s language study was fundamentally the study of formal grammar and standard usage. From the mid-1960s until the…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Trends, English Instruction, Foreign Countries
Charters, Wallace Werrett; Cowan, Esther Marshall; Betx, Annette – Silver, Burdett and Company, 1929
The third book in this English textbook series aims to determine minimum essentials in language and grammar, to provide methods for making correct form habitual, and to arrange the material so that it may be used in connection with the language work of the pupils outside the language recitation. Exercises, drills, games, and tests are employed.…
Descriptors: Textbooks, English Instruction, Teaching Methods, Language Usage
Charters, Wallace Werrett; Cowan, Esther Marshall; Betx, Annette – Silver, Burdett and Company, 1929
This English textbook aims to determine minimum essentials in language and grammar, to provide methods for making correct form habitual, and to arrange the material so that it may be used in connection with the language work of the pupils outside the language recitation. Exercises, drills, games, and tests are employed. Objective measures of…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Textbooks, Grammar, Teaching Methods
Charters, Wallace Werrett; Cowan, Esther Marshall; Betx, Annette – Silver, Burdett and Company, 1929
The second book in this English textbook series aims to determine minimum essentials in language and grammar, to provide methods for making correct form habitual, and to arrange the material so that it may be used in connection with the language work of the pupils outside the language recitation. Exercises, drills, games, and tests are employed.…
Descriptors: Textbooks, English Instruction, Language Skills, Grammar
Bardwell, R. W.; Mabie, Ethel; Tressler, J. C. – D.C. Heath and Company, 1935
The organization of this book is based upon the principle -- generally accepted in schools today -- that every situation in the school requiring or stimulating social intercommunication or individual self-expression affords significant opportunity for developing language ability. These situations, which are vital and meaningful to the pupils, are…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Teaching Methods, Social Studies, Natural Sciences
Bardwell, R. W.; Mabie, Ethel; Tressler, J. C. – D.C. Heath and Company, 1935
The organization of this book is based upon the principle -- generally accepted in schools today -- that every situation in the school requiring or stimulating social intercommunication or individual self-expression affords significant opportunity for developing language ability. These situations, which are vital and meaningful to the pupils, are…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Grade 4, Elementary School Students, Units of Study
Pollard, Rebecca S. – Western Publishing House, 1891
This Manual provides the foundation for a reading and spelling course which avoids use of the phonic method. Instead of teaching the word as a whole and afterward subjecting it to phonic analysis, this Synthetic Method takes the sounds of the letters for the starting point, and with these sounds lay a foundation firm and broad, upon which is built…
Descriptors: Spelling, Teaching Methods, Phonics, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
Bardwell, R. W.; Mabie, Ethel; Tressler, J. C. – D.C. Heath and Company, 1935
The organization of this book is based upon the principle -- generally accepted in schools today -- that every situation in the school requiring or stimulating social intercommunication or individual self-expression affords significant opportunity for developing language ability. These situations, which are vital and meaningful to the pupils, are…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Units of Study, Textbooks, Natural Sciences
Bardwell, R. W.; Mabie, Ethel; Tressler, J. C. – D.C. Heath and Company, 1935
The organization of this book is based upon the principle -- generally accepted in schools today -- that every situation in the school requiring or stimulating social intercommunication or individual self-expression affords significant opportunity for developing language ability. These situations, which are vital and meaningful to the pupils, are…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Units of Study, Textbooks, Social Studies
Bardwell, R. W.; Mabie, Ethel; Tressler, J. C. – D.C. Heath and Company, 1935
The organization of this book is based upon the principle -- generally accepted in schools today -- that every situation in the school requiring or stimulating social intercommunication or individual self-expression affords significant opportunity for developing language ability. These situations, which are vital and meaningful to the pupils, are…
Descriptors: Guides, Grade 5, Elementary School Students, Units of Study
Bardwell, R. W.; Mabie, Ethel; Tressler, J. C. – D.C. Heath and Company, 1935
The organization of this book is based upon the principle -- generally accepted in schools today -- that every situation in the school requiring or stimulating social intercommunication or individual self-expression affords significant opportunity for developing language ability. These situations, which are vital and meaningful to the pupils, are…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Teaching Methods, Units of Study, Guides
Tressler, J. C.; Shelmadine, Marguerite B. – D.C. Heath and Company, 1935
The organization of this book is based upon the principle -- generally accepted in schools today -- that every situation in the school requiring or stimulating social intercommunication or individual self-expression affords significant opportunity for developing language ability. These situations, which are vital and meaningful to the pupils, are…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Elementary School Students, English Instruction, Units of Study
O'Shea, M.V. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1927
This monograph presents data and conclusions derived from one phase of an investigation of objectives and methods in the teaching of modern foreign languages in high schools and colleges. A committee of specialists operating under the auspices of the American Council of Education and with financial assistance received from the Carnegie Corporation…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Graduation, High Schools
Meriam, J. L. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1938
The educational welfare of children of native and minority groups in continental United States and its outlying parts involves instructional procedures which in recent years are becoming more and more recognized as constituting specialized problems in education. Bilingualism is generally recognized as offering serious instructional difficulties…
Descriptors: Minority Groups, Bilingualism, Mexican Americans, English (Second Language)
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