Through a questionnaire technique the authors sampled selected professional reading behavior of English teachers in the State of Florida. Analysis of data, charts and tables. (RB)

What means can we use to predict the success or failure of the future English teacher? Authors subject a number of assumptions to rigid statistical tests and conclude that it is difficult to find an answer. (RB)

Examines whether the additive effect of a creative or noncreative writing task on a reading assignment would produce any significant change in comprehension or attitude. Charts, tables, statistics. (RB)

Ascertaining that the college freshman and professional writing he analyzed did not differ significantly in the rank order or frequency with which transitional devices were used in description, author advises that it may be a waste of time to teach high school and college students these devices as if they were not already a basic component of…

The study examines the question of whether or not a teacher of black and white fourth graders faces two distinct groups in regard to the syntactic maturity of their speech. (RB)

Includes articles in the following categories; The English Teacher and English Curriculum; Literature; Reading; English Skills; Composition and Rhetoric; Oral Language; Verbal Learning and Cognitive Development; Teacher Education. (RB)