The purpose of this research study was to evaluate the use of creative drama as a method for the instruction of narrative text analysis as well as to improve pre-service teacher candidates' ability to understand the structure and meaning of literary texts. An embedded mixed-method research approach was utilised so that the qualitative and…

SELECTED WORKS PUBLISHED BETWEEN 1911 AND 1965 ARE INCLUDED IN THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR SECONDARY SCHOOL SPANISH TEACHERS. THERE ARE BRIEF SECTIONS FOR (1) DICTIONARIES, (2) ANTHOLOGIES AND HISTORIES OF CIVILIZATION AND LITERATURE, AND (3) BOOKS AND JOURNALS ON METHODOLOGY. THE MAJOR SECTION IS DEVOTED TO READING TEXTS OF LATIN AMERICAN AND SPANISH…

SELECTED WORKS PUBLISHED BETWEEN 1923 AND 1965 ARE INCLUDED IN THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR SECONDARY SCHOOL FRENCH TEACHERS. THERE ARE BRIEF SECTIONS FOR (1) DICTIONARIES, (2) ANTHOLOGIES AND HISTORIES OF CIVILIZATION AND LITERATURE, AND (3) BOOKS AND JOURNALS ON METHODOLOGY. THE MAJOR SECTION IS DEVOTED TO READING TEXTS APPROPRIATE FOR THE FIRST…

The purpose of this dissertation is twofold: (1) to provide a secondary school literature textbook suitable for use in an 8- or 10-week period, all of whose selections share the theme of sports; and (2) to provide a three part rationale for such a textbook--the first part discussing the evolution, uses, and potential of the thematic unit as a…

Discussion of the current student malaise toward foreign literature and reading problems encountered by college students is directed toward means of making college language programs more relevant and of updating teaching methods. Student disinterest is traced to a premature and excessive overexposure to electronic media. The author proposes a…

The three papers collected in this document present opinions for and against the use of anthologies in introductory writing and literature classes at community colleges. The first paper, "College Students Must Read Book-Length Works," by Dallas E. Dillon, proposes that students, even non-traditional community college students, should be pushed to…

The "new" teaching of literature which is enjoyable and relevant to the lives of students, and which reflects the excitement of the teacher, should (1) make less use of anthologies, more use of paperbacks; (2) involve less common reading, more individualized reading; (3) use less adult literature, more good adolescent literature; (4) consist of…

June Jordan, a prolific and most-published African American essayist and poet and a professor in the African American Studies department at the University of California, Berkeley, ventured to challenge the institutionalized Ivory Tower traditions and subsequently established a university program called Poetry for the People (P4P) in 1991. Such…

This annotated bibliography lists books printed and published in the United States of America for use in teaching Spanish and Portuguese in high school and college by students whose first language is English. As a sequel to the Arjona "A Bibliography of Textbooks of Spanish Published in the United States (1795-1939)," this publication contains…

A questionnaire was sent to the teachers of literature in a stratified random sample of public 4-year Iowa high school districts to gain a description of the teaching of literature. It was found that the "typical" English teacher is a married woman with a bachelor's degree, usually earned in English. She prefers to teach short stories, dramas,…

Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese will find varied information in 27 articles related to their profession. Articles pertain to the following general categories: (1) language learning theory, (2) teacher education, (3) teaching methodology, (4) program articulation, (5) student evaluation, (6) instructional materials, and (7) professional…

This annotated supplement to the annual bibliography of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) contains articles, studies, research reports, monographs, books, and bibliographical and reference sources. There are sections on linguistics, physiology and psychology of language learning, cultural context, foreign…