This thesis examines the views of a number of educational actors about the impact of a broad range of educational reforms upon philological Greek Cypriot teachers' professionalism. The empirical component of the study gathers evidence from a variety of educational professionals, and presents data from a series of focus group interviews with…

The primary goal of the present study is an exposition of the structure of Mam, a Mayan language of the Mamean group. Mam is the most widely spoken of the four Mamean languages, and has been roughly estimated to have a quarter million speakers located in the departments of Huehuetenango and San Marcos in Guatemala and in the state of Chiapas in…

This study presents an argument against the identification of speech as the sole source of data for linguistic research. Specifically, the issue addressed is whether speech and reading and writing can be considered expressions of one language or whether the obvious differences in the terminal symbol strings in the two types of expression are…

This dissertation provides a heuristic model for defining, analyzing, and exemplifying the artistic dimension of black English. Further, it offers a method of recognizing and evaluating this aspect of verbal behavior for the purpose of strengthening curriculum development and methods of instruction. After a review of the literature that deals with…

The purpose of this study was to compare two different methods of teaching college-level English grammar and composition, the linguistic method and the traditional method, to freshman students at a large midwestern university. English students enrolled in the introductory English grammar and composition course served as subjects. The experimental…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between students' ability to recover deep structures, as measured by the Sentence Comprehension Subtest (SCS) of the SRA Reading Index, and their reading comprehension as measured by the Reading Progress Scale (RPS). All 11th grade students in Hillsborough High School, Belle Mead, New…

The principal aim of this study was to bring together three contemporary frameworks, general semantics, linguistic semantics in transformational theory, and speech acts in ordinary language philosophy, and to present their individual methods for analyzing the nature of meaning in language. The survey of these three systems forms the basis for a…

A descriptive research technique was applied in this study, which sought to determine the linguistic emphasis in the teaching of English grammar in the elementary schools of Texas. A questionnaire, which asked for information on the background and experience of the teachers, as well as for information on English grammar instruction in their…

This study describes the use of (1) a clause analysis technique reflecting a sketch of the core grammatical system of English based on a tagmemic model and (2) limited individual instruction in a small number of principles of expository writing to increase the composition skills of students who had previously been obtaining failing grades in their…

The purpose of this study was to measure the extent to which 121 Kansas elementary school students in grades one, three, and six understood masculine generic nouns to include females. An original measurement instrument was constructed which consisted of two forms, identical with regard to pictures and format but differing in the inclusion of…

Word-recognition behavior of 50 high school students two or more grade levels below their age mates in tests of reading comprehension was contrasted with that of 25 controls from the same schools, who were reading at grade level. The experiment included a section in which pictures (flashed, like the words, at 1/100 of a second) were to be…

This study focused on the following questions involved in the implementation of the language experience approach: (1) Which tutor will produce the most effective responses? (2) What is the reality of the existence of a Black English vernacular syntax? and (3) Is there evidence of black-white linguistic overlap? Natural, transcribed conversations…

This study was designed to assess the impact of the Project English manual "English Language Arts in Wisconsin," to evaluate the teaching of English in Wisconsin public secondary schools, and to investigate teacher inservice and preservice training. Questionnaires involving one third of the population of secondary English teachers tapped…

This study examines the amount and level of general linguistics and grammar that are required of secondary English teacher candidates; investigates the opinions of secondary English teacher candidates regarding the value of formal grammar instruction; explores the level of pre-existing knowledge among college English majors, junior-level,…

This paper describes the creation of a comprehensive evaluation tool for reference librarians in adult service divisions to use in selecting World Wide Web sites as reference sources. Traditional evaluation criteria, endorsed and applied by librarians over the years, are not sufficient for the evaluation of today's hypermedia web site environment.…