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PDF pending restorationLado, Robert – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1955
For a number of years there has been a growing interest in the specialized field of teaching English as a second language in the United States and abroad. Many colleges and universities in this country have offered special courses for foreign students. Several institutions have offered programs for the preparation of teachers in this field for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Annotated Bibliographies, Second Language Instruction
Peer reviewedThomas, P. L. – English Journal, 2000
Discusses the work and contributions of Lou LaBrant, who became president of the National Council of Teachers of English in 1954, and who was one of the foremost progressive practitioners of reading and writing instruction. Discusses her research, her teaching, her experience, and her lifelong insistence that the writing curriculum had to be…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction
Download full textAdams, Dorothy; Brownewell, Charles; Clark, Eleanor; Connolly, Thomas; Davis, Ruth; Gray, Jack E.; Kernen, Berta; Keyser, Frances; Miller, Harry; Miller, Jacqueline; Williams, Hazel – US Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1941
This bulletin represents an innovation in U. S. Office of Education procedures in the writing of publications, since it has been produced by the cooperative effort of 12 students at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, and their instructor in English. Because of the many requests from seventh- and eighth-grade rural school pupils for a brief…
Descriptors: Public Education, Democracy, Junior High School Students, Educational History
Schmidt, Patricia A. – 1997
This book is an autobiographical effort to understand life as a person and as a high school English teacher, and how those two lives have intertwined. The text examines how the author, trained in certain ways, thinks of herself as a professional person. In addition to the subject of the teaching of reading and writing, the author explores how her…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, English Instruction, English Teachers, Feminism
PDF pending restorationBrown, M. Gordon; Russell, Jane M. – US Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1947
This bibliography has been prepared in response to the growing interest, both in the United States and abroad, in English as a second or foreign language. The bibliography is selective rather than comprehensive, and provides a brief description of most publications. It is intended to be of assistance to foreign teachers of English as well as those…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Bibliographies, Second Language Instruction
