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Davis, Ken, Ed. – Kentucky English Bulletin, 1986
Noting that despite the homogenizing influence of the mass media, the United States remains a land of regions, this focused journal issue celebrates regionalism (especially Kentucky regionalism) by exploring its implications for the teaching of English and language arts. The articles and their authors are as follows: (1) "Literacy and…
Descriptors: Authors, Black Community, Black Literature, Creative Writing
Hurst, Marietta; And Others – 1983
A program to be used by teachers working with children at the stage of emergent writing, generally kindergarten and grades 1 and 2, and based on recognition of young children's development, is outlined. The project operates on the premise that children can independently learn to write by writing if they are immersed in the appropriate social and…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Child Development, Communication (Thought Transfer), Developmental Stages
MCGINNIS, MILDRED A. – 1963
THIS BOOK IS DESIGNED TO DEFINE APHASIA AND ITS CHARACTERISTICS, TO PRESENT A PROCEDURE FOR TEACHING LANGUAGE TO APHASIC CHILDREN, AND TO APPLY THIS PROCEDURE TO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SUBJECTS. OTHER HANDICAPPING CONDITIONS WHICH COMPLICATE THE DIAGNOSIS OF APHASIA ARE PRESENTED BY MEANS OF CASE STUDIES. CHARACTERISTICS OF TWO TYPES OF…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Case Studies, Children, Delayed Speech
White, Ronald V. – 1978
Writing exercises used as a means of reinforcing language presented and practiced in the spoken medium should include clear cues for the student that can stimulate and guide the writing of connected sentences. Three principles are suggested as being fundamental to the planning and use of effective exercises: (1) focus throughout should be on the…
Descriptors: Charts, Communication Skills, Cues, Diagrams
Jochum, C. – 1970
This article describes an attempt to give university students of English as a second language instruction in writing literary essays. The students were given literary commentaries to listen to in the language laboratory, and then were asked to summarize these commentaries, using, as much as possible, the structures contained in the original…
Descriptors: College Language Programs, English Literature, English (Second Language), Essays
Shuy, Roger W. – 1976
This paper describes the past assumptions about the mismatch of child language and school language, noting the distance principle, the characteristics of language interference and the various treatments that have been hypothesized. Past research involving language mismatch and reading is reviewed, and it is noted that even though the best evidence…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Style, Dialects, Elementary Education

Goodman, Kenneth S.; Niles, Olive S. – 1970
Broad and major concerns dealing with reading are set forth in this monograph to provoke discussion and examination by both researchers and practitioners. In Part 1, Kenneth S. Goodman presents a psycholinguistic view of language and reading (within a transformational-generative framework) as essentially a set of processes of recoding, decoding,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Generative Grammar, Language Acquisition, Language Learning Levels
Chandler, William J., Comp.; And Others – 1969
GRADES OR AGES: K-12. SUBJECT MATTER: English Usage. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: There are four major sections: Prekindergarten-grade 3; grade 4-grade 6; grade 7-grade 9; grade 10-grade 12. Learning experiences are listed for each grade. The guide is offset printed and bound with a soft cover. OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES: The program is…
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, Elementary Education, English Curriculum, Grade 1
Bung, Klaus – 1973
This paper is part of a series presented at the symposium on a European units/credits system for modern language learning to adults. Included are a list of 58 modules or units of study, together with some indication of real-life situations in which the skills associated with the modules could be used. These modules have to be further divided so…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Conferences, Course Content, Course Descriptions
Taylor, Marcia E. – 1972
This workbook accompanies the first text in a Business English series designed for non-English-speaking secretarial students. It provides written reinforcement of the material presented in the text; the twenty lessons in the workbook correspond to the twenty lessons in the text and give the student practice in reading and writing what he has…
Descriptors: Business Education, Business English, Business Skills, Conversational Language Courses
Taylor, Marcia E. – 1972
This workbook accompanies the second text in a Business English series designed for non-English-speaking secretarial students. It provides written reinforcement of the material presented in that text; the fifteen lessons in the workbook correspond to the fifteen lessons in the text and give the student practice in reading and writing what he has…
Descriptors: Business Education, Business English, Business Skills, Conversational Language Courses
Taylor, Marcia E. – 1972
This workbook accompanies the third text in a Business English series designed for non-English-speaking secretarial students. It supplements and reinforces the material in the text and gives the student practice in reading and writing what he has previously studied orally in class. The ten lessons in the workbook correspond to the ten lessons in…
Descriptors: Business Education, Business English, Business Skills, Conversational Language Courses
Yallop, Colin – 1976
One major view concerning what an orthography should be conforms to Pike's idea that a practical orthography should be phonemic, that is, that there should be a one-to-one correspondence between each phoneme and the symbolization of that phoneme. An alternative view, that of Chomsky and Halle, proposes that the fundamental principle of orthography…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Australian Aboriginal Languages, Distinctive Features (Language), English (Second Language)

Kamimura, Taeko; Oi, Kyoko – World Englishes, 1998
A study examined differences in argumentative strategies in Japanese and American English by analyzing English essays on capital punishment written by 22 American high school seniors and 30 Japanese college sophomores. Differences were found in the organizational patterns, content and use of rational appeals, preference for type of diction, and…
Descriptors: College Students, Contrastive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language)
Kim, Anna Charr – 1995
The case study examined the development of English writing skills in a native Russian-speaking college student with no previous instruction in English as a Second Language. It drew on writing samples from 2 years of English language instruction. Theories of first and second language acquisition, especially in written expression, are analyzed in…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Case Studies, College Students, Comparative Analysis