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Download full textO'DONNELL, BERNARD – 1966
THE PURPOSE OF THIS ANALYSIS WAS TO DISCOVER CERTAIN ASPECTS OF STYLE (BOTH LEXICAL AND GRAMMATICAL) WHICH COULD BE COUNTED AND WHICH WOULD, WHEN COMPARED, DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN THE WRITTEN PROSE OF TWO AUTHORS. THE SUBJECT SELECTED FOR ANALYSIS WAS "THE O'RUDDY," BEGUN BY STEPHEN CRANE AND COMPLETED BY ROBERT BARR. SINCE THERE WAS NO…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Data Processing, Diction, Discriminant Analysis
Thompson, Denys, Ed. – 1969
This book reviews changes in the teaching of English in British schools during the past 30 years, surveys current practices, and indicates promising developments. Although the contributors write on separate aspects--the purpose of teaching English, the primary school, poetry, teaching the non-literary pupil, prose reading, drama, language, oral…
Descriptors: Drama, Educational Trends, Elementary Education, English Instruction
Turner, G. W. – Opinion, The Journal of the South Australian English Teacher's Assn., 1967
A delineation of the differences between speaking and writing should clarify the functions and possible future of prose. Speech has a speaker to provide language with inflectional stress and a visible audience to respond immediately to that language. On the other hand, prose ("an art of written language")--which is separated in time from an…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Language, Language Patterns, Language Rhythm
Tate, Gary, Ed. – 1966
Lectures presented at the 1965 National Defense Education Act Institutes for Advanced Study in English are presented in this book. Selected for their interest to both experienced and prospective English teachers, the lectures are grouped into four categories. (1) Of general interest to the English teacher are John Gerrietts' portrait of the…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Background, English Curriculum
Sargent, Barbara Nelson – 1964
A list of six main benefits of the study of Old French at the undergraduate level follows a discussion of the value, function, and goals of such a program. The advantages discussed result in: (1) a first-hand acquaintance with medieval masterpieces, (2) a sense of continuity in the history of literature, (3) improved techniques in critical…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Curriculum Design, Diachronic Linguistics, Educational Problems
Department of Education and Science, London (England). – 1966
This discussion of language traces the relations between language, thought, and culture and illustrates the importance of language, of the English language in particular, in world developments. Suggestions are made for teaching the mother tongue. Teaching English in England is discussed as is teaching Welsh and English in Wales and French in…
Descriptors: Broadcast Industry, Cognitive Processes, Communication Problems, Communication (Thought Transfer)
