The possibility should be considered that English grammar has been misanalyzed for centuries because of grammarians' accepting fundamentally flawed assumptions about grammar and, even more so, about the history of English--and that this has resulted in a huge disconnect between English grammars and the genius of English that really exists. The…

"Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr." tells of King's childhood determination to use "big words" through biographical information and quotations. In this lesson, students in grades 3 to 5 explore information on Dr. King to think about his "big" words, then they write about their own…

Two of the most stigmatized languages in the United States today are African American dialect and Appalachian English dialect. The attitudes many hold about Appalachia have come from the literature written about the place, the people, the cultural life of the mountain region, in general, and the spoken dialect. Arnow's "The Dollmaker,"…

Article discussed the grammatical influence of Bishop Lowth, who changed the face of grammar by his method of prescription and proscription applied in the seventeenth century. (RK)

Discusses common deletions of initial syllables in ordinary English language conversation and provides numerous examples of each category of deletion. (TO)

Four observations are offered on the development of oral communication in relationship to classroom teaching practices. (CH)

Evidence for the National Association for the Teaching of English submitted to the Committee of Inquiry into Reading and the use of English set up by the Secretary of State under the chairmanship of Sir Alan Bullock. (RB)

Reprinted from the Times Literary Supplement'', October 13, 1972; present article is part of Lexicography and Dialect Geography, Festgabe for Hans Kurath''. (DD)

Genealogical properties refer to those etymological properties which underlie such classifications as inherited, borrowed, on internally created words. (DD)

Part of a continued article. (RL)

Data were gathered on field trips from June 1968 to March 1972, under the auspices of the Summer Institute of Linguistics. (VM)

The purpose of the paper is (1) to examine general semantics as a methodology, and (2) to show how it possesses applicability in educational philosophy. (Authors)

An exploration of the assumptions underlying current literary experiments might help both teacher and student to find a perspective from which the past may be viewed. (Author/MB)