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Allen, Harold B. – 1982
During the first half-century of the existence of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), the teaching of grammar aroused furious debate among its members. In 1924, Charles C. Fries assembled a panel of six language scholars to answer three questions: (1) What should English teachers know about the English language? (2) Do the usual…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Educational History, English Instruction, English Teacher Education
Peer reviewedAllen, Harold B. – Language Arts, 1977
Language arts teachers must be trained to make the English language the central core of their teaching. (DD)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Elementary Education, English Education, Language
Allen, Harold B. – Claremont Coll Reading Conf 32nd Yearbook, 1968
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Grammar, Language Arts, Language Usage
Download full textAllen, Harold B. – 1967
Today, the study of regional and social dialects is offering valuable assistance to language teachers. Although studies comprehending all regions of the United States are still unrealized, linguistic geographers have undertaken comprehensive field studies of many regional language variations, making available (1) atlases describing the regional…
Descriptors: Atlases, Dialect Studies, Dialects, English Instruction
Allen, Harold B.; Worth, George J. – 1969
Harold Allen states that language study will become an integral component of the college English curriculum when English departments recognize that a professional knowledge of the nature and function of language, of current theoretical studies in it, and of the geographical, historical, and social variations in language is vital to understanding…
Descriptors: College Language Programs, Curriculum Evaluation, English Curriculum, English Departments
