Urges teachers to devote more attention to the study of the English language. (DD)

We seem to have developed a system that puts people who cannot use English into positions teaching future English teachers. (JH)

Describes an approach to teaching language based on teachers' and students' own experiences with language; outlines a one-week unit illustrating the approach. (DD)

Explores what the author learned about teaching and the limits of language through a series of mishaps that occurred during a family move, which disrupted his assumptions and led him to question the limits of language to represent experience. Invites students to discover for themselves how representations of reality which differ from language are…

Demonstrates how the work published in "English Education" between 1994 and 1996 figures within the larger body of what has come to be called post-modern scholarship. Defines postmodernism and then considers how the work published in "English Education" contributes to postmodern thought and to the study and teaching of…

Implications of the Conference on College Composition and Communication position paper on The Students' Right to Their Own Language are considered. (JH)

The separation of the mechanics of rhetoric from the ethics of rhetoric has had disastrous consequences, in education and in our public life. (JH)

Discusses what English teachers should cover in the areas of grammar, spelling, vocabulary, dialects and usage, nonverbal communication, semantics, and etymology. (DD)

Standards, like schools and the teaching profession, are inherently undemocratic.