English teachers should give most attention to counteracting the tendency for public language to become an unreliable instrument of communication. (JH)

Discusses the problems encountered in getting pattern practices into the English program at the secondary level in New Orleans Public Schools. (RB)

Discusses problems of present and future urban educators, specifically in the inner-city, and makes specific reference to the fact that the problems involve ethnic and racial differences. (Author)

A teacher initiates and successfully develops a new method for increasing the vocabulary of eighth grade students. The new method abandons rote-memory techniques for a method which allows the students to choose the words they will learn while participating in the teaching of the new vocabulary. (LF)

An added benefit of studying Science Fiction is its natural tie-in with linguistics and language study. (Author/RB)

The two primary aims of today's English teachers should be to expose students to the universe of communication in all its complexity and to the different issues important to young people. (Author/RB)

Advertising copy should be given classroom attention in literary as well as moral terms. (JH)

English teachers do not take their subject--language--seriously enough; command of language is what students need to find themselves and cope with the forces of society. (JH)

Developing language habits in students leads to discussion of their self esteem as well as to the values of the dominant society. (JH)

Describes how to make an inexpensive device which helps students in conjugating verbs. (RB)

A thematic approach to the English curriculum provides a flexible means by which teachers can interest more students. (JH)

Students should be invited to write dramatic scripts rather than reporting or discussing. (JH)

Learning to read is a qualitatively different process from learning to compute, in that each student must discover his own ways of finding meanings. (JH)