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Massey, Lance – English Journal, 2011
As a teacher of Bowling Green State University's English 3810, Grammar and Writing, the author is charged with teaching future language arts teachers how to teach grammar so that it actually helps their students become better writers and communicators. Because such teaching rejects the ineffective but time-honored drill-it-and-kill-it approach, in…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Grammar, Teacher Educators, Teaching Methods

Turner, Nancy D.; Traxler, Maryann – Reading Improvement, 1995
Contends that the ability and openness to make informed decisions about future classroom reading programs increases with preservice teachers' personal immersion in a whole language environment. Describes strategies used in reading methods courses that allow students to experience what they may be expected to implement as teachers. (RS)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Course Descriptions, Higher Education, Methods Courses

Best, Linda – Research & Teaching in Developmental Education, 1991
Reviews the challenges that college-level English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) programs present to instructors and students. Offers suggestions for authentic language experiences in classroom settings. Analyzes the literature on language and literacy, whole language, and learning styles. Offers examples of thematic units tailored to elicit authentic…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, English (Second Language), Higher Education, Language Experience Approach
McLaughlin, Margaret A. – 1994
Educators at Georgia Southern University began using a whole language approach to developmental literacy instruction by adapting the model David Bartholomae and Anthony Petrosky provide in "Facts, Artifacts, and Counterfacts." Rather than a focus on information retrieval and transfer, whole language curricula encourage students to engage…
Descriptors: Black Literature, Blacks, Higher Education, Reader Response

Ediger, Marlow – Reading Improvement, 1997
Discusses the author's varied experiences in teaching reading, including teaching seventh grade pupils in the West Bank of Jordan, taking graduate courses in reading, and being an elementary school principal and a university professor. Suggests the need for a rational balance between whole language and phonics. (RS)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education

Ross, Elinor Parry – Journal of Reading, 1992
Describes changes made in the teaching of a college preservice education course in children's literature and reading methods that reflect principles of the whole-language approach. Discusses integration of curriculum, social context, classroom environment, evaluation, writing, purposeful learning, and opportunities to choose. (SR)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Class Activities, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness

Day, Kami – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1998
Describes the experience of a college teacher teaching, for the first time, an introduction to literature course with a whole-language approach. Describes how she abandoned her position as imparter-of-knowledge and as authority, and joined the students as one of many readers and writers. Discusses how class activities were structured and notes…
Descriptors: Class Activities, College Instruction, Higher Education, Literature Appreciation
Schwarzer, David; Luke, Chris – Texas Papers in Foreign Language Education, 2001
This paper explores inquiry cycles as an innovative curricular framework in whole language foreign language classes. Whole language is an educational philosophy that advocates and espouses student-centered, activity-based learning. The inquiry cycle is a holistic method of teaching based on a question or set of questions that students themselves…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Inquiry, Language Arts

McLaughlin, Margaret A.; And Others – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1995
Explains how whole language classes differ from traditional developmental classes and illustrates how both African American and Caucasian students benefit from a whole language approach. Makes a case for the importance of using African American literature as well as other literature. Describes reading and writing assignments. (TB)
Descriptors: Black Literature, Blacks, Group Dynamics, Higher Education
Monaghan, Peter – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1992
The Monterey Institute's International Studies curriculum is described in terms of its foreign language fluency requirements for business master's degree candidates and the school's use of language in international business negotiation training and other exercises involving foreign affairs. Illustrations reveal the school's success in educating…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Communication Skills, Higher Education, International Communication
Christensen, Lois M.; Dennis, Mary Beth – 1992
The theory and practice of whole language teaching should be integral and simultaneous components of preservice teacher education. A number of instructional strategies and class activities can be used to provide preservice teachers with experiences similar to experiences they will provide to elementary school children. Examples of class activities…
Descriptors: Assignments, Class Activities, Cooperative Learning, Elementary Education

Thomas, Karen F.; Barksdale-Ladd, Mary Alice – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1994
Outlines the potential for using whole language for remediation of reading disabilities. Criticizes current approaches to remediation. Discusses six principles of whole language instruction that are effective for remediation. Describes four whole-language programs that have successfully remediated students. Suggests alternative assessment…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Higher Education, Program Descriptions, Reading Instruction

Romeo, William J. – Ohio Reading Teacher, 1999
Reports on a partnership program between a small rural Ohio elementary school and the College of Education at Ohio University that provided a holistic integration of university classes and field experiences with a whole language focus in the elementary school setting. (NH)
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Cooperative Programs, Elementary Education, Higher Education
Fitzgerald, Doris F.; And Others – 1991
This report describes graduate courses in the whole language approach offered by Lander College to 10 rural school districts in South Carolina. The whole language approach is seen as a way to meet the educational needs of rural at-risk students. In the first course on the whole language approach, 10 early childhood teachers engaged in workshops on…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Graduate Study, High Risk Students, Higher Education
Roser, Nancy – 1990
A small-scale collaboration between members of a school of education and a public school district (involving some reading/language arts faculty and students from the University of Texas on the one hand and the curriculum director, volunteer reading teachers, media specialists, and elementary teachers in a school district in San Antonio, Texas on…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Elementary Education, Higher Education, Inservice Teacher Education