Discusses the connections between the study of literary texts, language, and composition and the impact of these connections on English instruction and English programs. (SRT)

Presents guidelines for using Jean Stafford's initiation story in high school literature classes. Describes a story that has humor, warmth, and a richness of theme that is appealing to both boys and girls. (NKA)

In responding to Caple's article on student development, focuses on ways to use the ideas in a college setting. Educators and counselors should facilitate student development, according to this theory, by fostering nonequilibrium. Results of such machinations would be unpredictable. Discusses implications for research, primarily phenomenological…

Argues that though college examiners seem to desire candidates' personal responses to literature, the examination questions require students to reply to the opinions of others rather than explain their own opinions. (SRT)

Investigated the different levels of response 60 primary children had to literature in the classroom and examined the differences in terms of stages in cognitive development. (DF)

Discusses the work of D. Smith, who wrote "Fifty Years of Children's Books,""Instruction in English," and Selected Essays," that largely document the history of English instruction in the U.S. for the last 50 years. (SRT)

Examines preschool children's understanding of the reading process. Results indicate that children's immediate experiences and their developmental characteristics had an impact on their conception of reading. (Author/AS)

Shows how students can benefit from expressing their emotional responses to literature in writing. (EL)

Relates how initiation and growth are experienced by both readers and characters in C.S. Lewis's classic fantasy, "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe." (HOD)

Concludes that reader enjoyment is related to both syntactic and semantic unpredictability. (FL)

Argues that coping with the complex demands of a story not only increases readers' enjoyment of literature, but also aids in intellectual and interpretive enjoyment. (HOD)

Examines the Hall-Mills murder case and the Browning separation--two events extensively covered by the press in the l920s--to see how they were shaped by the media into morality plays. (FL)

Examines the issues of how one makes sense of a poem and how to characterize groups of learners, their responses, their attitudes, and their stance in their social constructions of reality. (DF)

It is proposed that treatment of translation as a discipline can provide translators with techniques and perspectives on their work. Spanish and Dutch versions of a novel illustrate how seemingly innocent and subtle shifts in perspective can affect the most important and distinguishing qualities of a text. (MSE)

Discusses structuralism and liberal humanism and states that both are based upon moral and metaphysical positions. (DF)