This article discusses how amusing mistakes can make for serious language instruction. The notion that close analysis of language errors can yield insight into how one thinks and learns seems fundamentally obvious. Yet until relatively recently, language errors were primarily treated as indicators of learner deficiency rather than opportunities to…

A method for stimulating thought processes and broadening the imaginative scope. (RB)

An article supporting a curriculum that is first of all process-oriented and only secondarily concerned with product. (Author/JB)

Applied mainly to low achievers, the writing and reading program formulated by this teacher was based on a personal approach aimed toward inculcating the habit of thinking. (MM)

Discusses the applications of Russell G. Stauffer's work to the teaching of reading. (JL)

Much difficulty in teaching composition stems from the erroneous assumption that thought precedes writing. (JH)

English teachers must organize activities that will teach the true processes of revision. (JH)

Certain thinking and language skills are common to content disciplines. Different types of thinking are triggered by factual, convergent, divergent, and judgmental questions. The four levels of oral and written response are factual, logical, creative, and judgmental. An effective school language policy balances and integrates these skills in the…

Discusses the importance of improving students' visual perception as a way of improving their literary perception. Describes visual perception exercises that can be used in the English classroom. (EL)

Argues that students should exercise criticism in the classroom, but this criticism should not take the form of mere training in technical skills, indoctrination into a particular conceptual system, or theoretical speculation ungrounded in reality. (SRT)

Discusses the emerging assumptions of literature and its teaching that knowledge is made and must be remade by each person. Considers the relationships between the reader and the text, the reader and the reader, and the relationship between texts. (EL)