This paper discusses the inadequacies of elementary and college education, stating that since teachers expect students to write poorly, they do. Four risks which college writing teachers must take are: offering to help teach writing in grade schools and high schools; encouraging their colleagues to relax their standards; encouraging the acceptance…

The first part of this paper discusses the general decline in reading and writing ability in the United States and suggests several methods for improving literacy education, including teaching students the reading process several times a year from kindergarten through grade twelve. The second part of the paper makes two positive assumptions: that…

The purpose of this experiment was to determine if community college students enrolled in a freshmen remedial composition and reading course which stressed practical student skills and vocational skills relevant to their immediate needs could improve their reading and writing skills significantly more than comparable students whose remedial course…

In order to establish the effects of three different levels of writing lab use on the writing proficiency and attitudes of remedial freshman composition students, three instructional modes were used. Writing lab students spent two hours a week in small group discussions and four hours in the lab, using autotutorial materials. Classroom lecture…

The importance of a good listening program in the upper-elementary grades was emphasized. Perhaps the biggest listening problem with these students, the author said, is to teach them to read as they listen. Suggestions were offered as to how to build listening skills. The separate communicative skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing…

These volumes are the first two in a series of structured reading materials for classes in English as a foreign language. These readers may be used to give initial training in reading to non-native speakers, or as supplementary material with other English language teaching texts. Each book is designed to give practice not only in reading but also…

Verbs (4800) from 1200 compositions written by Nebraska students (grades 3-6) were examined using the most sophisticated grammatical analysis available to determine children's use of the English verb system and to compare their use to recent studies of the verb in adult writing. Information obtained included the following items: Children used…

The purpose of this study was to determine whether different methods of English instruction would produce significant differences in students' ability to write as well as to recognize satisfactory writing. During the first quarter of the school year, 731 students at the seventh and nine grade levels were taught by one of three teaching methods…

Since Students in Freshman English face the problem of feeling that they cannot begin to match the professional writers whose essays they read, an experiment was designed in which instructors used well-written themes of fellow students as examples of good writing on a level more attainable than the professional essayist. Pairs of themes--one well…

This book, written for students who have studied English as a second or foreign language for up to six years, aims to (1) correct the mistakes which even advanced students make, by demonstrating how native English writers use certain "tricky" structures, and giving the students practice in their correct usage; (2) improve the students' powers of…

Students who are taught to understand and apply Korzybski's uses of semantics to their writing will learn to write more concretely. As students locate words and descriptions vertically on Korzybski's scale of abstraction levels, they will become able to perceive how meanings change when descriptions become either more general or specific, to…

This collection of 12 critical essays--written for teachers, librarians, students, and parents--comments on the style, characterization, sense of wonder, and sense of reality in children's books. Specific subjects covered are (1) the fantasy worlds of Andersen, Beatrix Potter, Walter de la Mare, C. S. Lewis, Lewis Carroll, and J. R. R. Tolkien;…

In the introduction to this volume of a two volume document (See also TE 002 131.) written for curriculum developers, Donald Bateman identifies the recent periods in the development of linguistic thought and methodology, and presents language curriculum development as the continuing exploration of the processes of evolving linguistic structures.…

The nine essays in this document are concerned with "what, ideally, should make well-balanced, efficient programs in English for students in grades 9-12 in the comprehensive secondary schools of the future." James Sledd maintains that leaving teachers free to guide students in reading good books and in writing is more important to a successful…

This Reader is the second of a four-volume series in Urdu prepared by the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University. (See "A Course in Urdu," ED 013 435-7; "A Reader of Modern Urdu Poetry," ED 022 163; and "An Urdu Newspaper Word Count," AL 002 059.) This volume is intended for use at the second-year level of a comprehensive program of…