This article presents a survey of textbooks for second-year college Spanish courses published in the last ten years. (CFM)

Those who attended this workshop agreed that the textbooks being published today have too much material to be covered in a standard one-year course. Discussions were centered around deletion of subject matter in certain areas. (BB)

This article discusses errors in the presentation of valence theory in undergraduate chemistry textbooks, and the resulting misunderstandings in the minds of many students. Particular emphasis is given to the explanation of the trend in ionization energies along the first row of the periodic table. (BB)

The differences in the meanings of "shall" and "will" are presented, along with examples from various grammars, beginning with the sixteenth century and including contemporary ESL (English as a second language) textbooks. (HP)

Examination of six approved biology textbooks indicates that not all the texts deal adequately with bioethical issues. A table of 25 bioethical issues and the pages on which they are discussed in each textbook is given. Suggests that scientific literacy includes the ability to apply science to relevant life situations. (MA)

Provides information concerning the development and use of the Textbook Questioning Strategies Assessment Instrument (TQSAI). (CP)

Reports a study of three readability formulas--Dale-Chall, Fry, and Harris-Jacobson--which were used to analyze five current sixth-grade reading textbooks. (JM)

Vocabulary in first-year high school and college level German texts was studied. It was suggested that textbook authors use published word frequency lists to develop teaching materials that are practical, useful, and relevant to the process of communication. A word list occurring in 12 textbooks is presented in descending frequency. (SW)

Examines two recent English teaching texts, with accompanying tapes, workbooks and visual materials. Concludes that the "progressive" teacher, using one language only, will prefer "Englisch fuer Erwachsene," while "Lebendiges Englisch" will appeal to the tradition-conscious teacher who is nevertheless open to methodological innovations. (Text is…

Presents ideographic selections and class exercises from a Chinese first grade primer. Explanations in English are included. (Author/DB)

This article reports on a computer analysis of 3,281 exercises in the eleven textbooks required forhistory instruction in grades 4-10 of Soviet general-education schools circa 1970. (Author)

A study of eight language arts textbooks to determine how well they reflect recent findings regarding the writing process. (DD)

Provides excerpts from a forthcoming book on how high school-level history textbooks deal with the development and value of political democracy. Criticisms focus on: (1) these texts' choice of topic (particularly their emphasis on the West), (2) their handling of the political ideas of Ancient Greece, and (3) their representation of the meanings…

Illustrates the debate between (1) those holding the mechanic view that form must be imposed on writing, enabling the selection of relevant details, and (2) those holding the neo-Coleridgean organic view that as one writes one's thinking assumes shape, structure being indivisible from content. Contrasts textbooks by R. Decker and D. Murray. (JG)

Claims that two primary and mostly unacknowledged theories dominate writing textbooks: (1) a truncated version of the five classical canons, and (2) the modes of discourse--exposition, description, narration, and argumentation. (SKC)