Explores the theory and practice of imitation in the rhetorician's sense of emulating models." (Author)

Knowledge about language is, for most students, a necessary prerequisite to effective use of language. (JH)

Appraised objectively in this article is a 3-year research project that involved experimentation with audiolingual methods in teaching standard English in Freshman English classes at Chaflin College in South Carolina to Negro students who spoke a nonstandard dialect. Prior to a discussion of the effectiveness of using spelling instruction to teach…

Some reflections upon how writers learn to write are presented in an analogy with learning to swim, offering implications for the teaching of composition. The "simplicity" of the act of writing is contrasted with the "complexity" discovered by literary analysis. Two of the author's poems are used as examples. (AF)

Reviews faculty and student attitudes concerning the learning and growth of students for whom English is a second language (ESL students). Draws on case studies and hundreds of ESL student statements to evaluate the state of educational approaches and the directions they seem to be moving in. (TB)

Describes the special advantages a tape recorder gives to the student in being able to orally compose before he writes an essay. (MM)

To make useful responses to students' writing, teachers must devote a good deal of effort to identifying mental processes implicit in the language of students and to refining the skills students already possess. (RB)