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O'Neill, Robert – English Language Teaching Journal, 1982
Offers arguments for the use of published textbook material as a basis on which to mold the unpredictable interactions necessary to classroom language learning. Suggests that textbooks are useful for orientation and independent study and describes the gradual process of replacement by which new textbook materials evolve. (Author/MES)
Descriptors: Course Organization, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods

Ney, James W. – Hispania, 1983
An examination of texts, experience, and learning theories supports the use of two different kinds of exercises in language instruction. Those giving practice in language manipulation help in acquisition, and those helping students with understanding develop an awareness that is used later to aid learning. (MSE)
Descriptors: Drills (Practice), Learning Theories, Pattern Drills (Language), Second Language Instruction
White, Fred D. – 1984
Rhetoric textbooks continue to proliferate while writing teachers continue to grow more skeptical of their usefulness. The key question educators need to answer is whether all available composition textbooks are ineffective in the sense of being based on false notions about the composing process, or whether they are "intrinsically" ineffective.…
Descriptors: Discourse Modes, Instructional Materials, Rhetoric, Student Needs
Zughoul, Muhammad Raji – 1986
The current textbook series used in the compulsory cycle's English instruction has been the subject of much criticism, including the suggestions that it is too structurally oriented, contains little interesting or motivating material, has little functional or communicative content, is not Jordanianized but has only a surface Jordanian element, is…
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Developing Nations, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
Wood, William H. – 1980
An examination of current textbooks for freshman English composition courses reveals that authors, editors, and publishers continue to perpetuate outmoded techniques which frustrate, rather than enhance, student writing ability. Most notable of these techniques is the unnecessary emphasis placed on complicated rules of grammar. Such an emphasis…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Community Colleges, Grammar, Introductory Courses

Zuckerman, J. J. – Journal of Chemical Education, 1986
Argues that the field of inorganic chemistry is facing an identity crisis. Proposes that the current call for curriculum reform in inorganic chemistry is an opportunity to return to a stronger discipline. Presents a history of freshman chemical education and recommends a new program for inorganic chemistry. (TW)
Descriptors: Chemical Reactions, Chemistry, College Science, Higher Education