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Download full textStockwell, Glenn – JALT CALL Journal, 2013
While learners can acquire vocabulary through extensive reading (Pigada & Schmitt, 2006), research suggests that acquisition can be more effective when supplemented with targeted vocabulary activities (e.g., Paribakht & Wesche, 1997). Problems arise, however, in determining what vocabulary learners have acquired, and what items should be…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
Direct linkManzo, Kathleen Kennedy – Education Week, 2007
Chanelle Brown has not found much she can relate to in the classic texts assigned in her English classes at Evanston Township High School. A top student, the junior has toiled through "The Odyssey," "All the King's Men," "The Scarlet Letter," and other standards, she said, while many of her classmates at the suburban Chicago school have given up…
Descriptors: Reading Assignments, Student Attitudes, Adolescent Literature, Secondary School Curriculum
Dean, Paul – Use of English, 1988
Suggests an approach to teaching the poetry of T. S. Eliot.
Descriptors: English Curriculum, Literary History, Poetry, Reading Assignments
Peer reviewedRabin, Sydell – English Journal, 1980
Urges teachers to keep reading and writing alive in the classroom by assigning a variety of books, including the classics, and by integrating written responses with the reading assignments. (DD)
Descriptors: Assignments, English Curriculum, Reading Assignments, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedLid, R. W.; Handler, Philip – Theory Into Practice, 1975
The purpose of this article is to discuss five different approaches to teaching literature. (RC)
Descriptors: English Curriculum, English Education, English Instruction, Literature
Graves, Michael F.; And Others – 1976
This booklet begins with a rationale for a strategy for structuring reading activities in the English classroom in order to facilitate growth in reading ability and to accommodate students with varying initial levels of achievement. Specific suggestions are provided for prereading activities, the reading itself, and postreading activities. A…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Directed Reading Activity, English Curriculum, Learning Activities
Leach, Mozelle P. – 1986
A study compared the results of a 1986 survey on the opinions of preservice teachers with those of a survey conducted in 1984 by William Bennett (at that time chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities). Bennett's survey asked respondents to list 30 works that students should be expected to read before high school graduation.…
Descriptors: Classics (Literature), Core Curriculum, English Curriculum, English Literature
Zuther, Gerhard – 1970
This module of a curriculum for independent study represents 8 to 10 weeks' work, but it can be tailored to the individual's need. The normal time allowed for completion of the course is 12 months. The English/Social Studies curriculum is based on the spirit in which men have looked at those aspects of life for which there are no obvious answers.…
Descriptors: Autoinstructional Aids, College Curriculum, Continuing Education Centers, Correspondence Study
Clark, Karen J. – 1969
This modular curriculum for independent study by high school students is a one-fourth unit credit course on Comparative Mythology. The aims of the course are to help the student to: (1) become aware of the orally transmitted culture in their lives; (2) become aware of the mythical element in all of man's history; (3) know the meanings of the…
Descriptors: Autoinstructional Aids, Continuing Education Centers, Correspondence Study, Course Content
Peer reviewedHandler, Lynn; Niedziela, Nancy – Emergency Librarian, 1997
Discusses collaboration between secondary school teacher-librarians and English teachers to promote literacy and reading through choice book units, where students can choose from a selection of suggested titles. Topics include nonfiction books; advantages for low-ability readers; audio books; and Teachers as Readers book discussion groups. (LRW)
Descriptors: Books, Discussion Groups, English Curriculum, English Teachers
Ashmead, John – 1964
A case is made for the assigned reading of ancient and modern literary classics, rather than modern essay collections, in college freshman composition classes. The effectiveness of a number of classics used for that purpose for 13 years in the freshman courses at Haverford College is discussed. Classwork in the Haverford program is described, and…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Classics (Literature), College English, College Freshmen
Milstead, John – The CEA Critic, 1965
The awesome task of teaching the English novel in one semester at a small college is illustrated and made more feasible in this concise article. A selected group of novels is commented upon specifically, comprising a total volume of more than 4,100 pages of assigned reading. Using the incentive of higher grades, the author provides two other lists…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Course Descriptions, Course Objectives, Course Organization
Small, Robert C., Jr. – 1987
Noting that teacher education students are unfamiliar with the censorship issue, this paper discusses three kinds of censorship the pre-service English teacher can be expected to face, and suggests ways to prepare them to recognize and remedy anticipated problems. The essay identifies the first kind of censorship as that imposed by English…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Censorship, Elementary Secondary Education, English Curriculum
Watson, Dorothy J., Ed. – 1987
Intended to provide elementary school language arts teachers with new and interesting teaching activities, this book contains over 100 teacher-tested classroom activities that are based on the whole language approach to learning. Chapters discuss the following: (1) a world of language in use; (2) literature points the way (including themes and…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing, Elementary Education
