Performance on high and low level objective test items were compared for two groups of business writing students. Students in individualized classes with one teacher for 50 students did as well on high level tasks as did students in traditional classes with one teacher for 25 students. (Author/GDC)

Presents ten opportunities for using comic books in the exercise of oral, listening, reading, writing, and vocabulary skills. (DD)

In the course of compiling a directory to graduate programs for community college English teachers, the author noted that research and teaching skills received joint emphasis. (MKM)

Describes the history of the community college movement as it relates to community college English teachers and their training. (MKM)

Shows that foreign students frequently need special help with English and tells how a university organized a remedial writing program for foreign students who demonstrate a deficiency in technical writing skills. (GW)

Offers ideas for designing or redesigning English composition courses so that they meet the needs of students in nonacademic, vocational programs. (GW)

A study of errors in papers written by upper-level (Grades 11-13) students of English, notably in the use of participles, inversion, modal auxiliary verbs, pointed to deficiencies in upper-level teaching texts, insufficient exposure, and goals that are too high. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

This article provides teachers of adolescents and adults with a number of instructional activities designed to develop basic literacy abilities. A number of problems and exercises are presented which should prove involving and meaningful to ESL (English as a Second Language) students at the secondary level. (Author/CFM)

Examples of worksheets are given and their use discussed in teaching an audiolingual course in French on the junior and senior high school levels. Activities on the worksheets involve auditory discrimination and reading and writing skills. Tape recordings are used. (RM)

Lists basic skills which high school teachers should acquire in literature, language, composition, non-print media, and the general English curriculum. (DD)

Provides instructions for making slides of students' assignments to be used as a basis for discussion of newswriting techniques. (KS)

Describes the educational trend being debated in the United States and its effect on English instruction there and in Australia. (RL)

A detailed analysis of errors in French composition of French-speaking secondary school students in Ontario. A general conclusion is that these students do not possess a mastery of formal written French. It is hoped that the analysis will help teachers of minority Francophones elsewhere. (Text is in French.) (AMH)

An experiment with the British 16-plus examinations in French was intended to investigate the principle of an incline of difficulty in language testing and the problems facing an examiner in setting different tests on an incline. The test contained sections on reading comprehension and writing. Results are discussed. (CHK)

A review of the use of specific word processing programs to teach foreigners English language composition discusses advantages and disadvantages of such features as spelling checkers, prompting markers, and formatting programs. Suggestions are presented for enhancing students' writing skills both with and without word processing help. (CB)