Argues that focusing on film adaptations helps students view literature from an interdisciplinary perspective and gain insight into narrative technique. (PRA)

This paper analyzes changes in educational aspirations and related constructs as an approach to understanding student careers. It explores the effects of beginning postsecondary education in a two-year college versus a four-year college/university, after controlling for background characteristics (gender, race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and…

A multiple choice exercise, in which students choose personality characteristics, brief lines of dialogue, and action is presented as a method for teaching students unfamiliar with literary devices or critical reading. (HTH)

The author discusses the little-examined tensions that female and Latina first-generation college students (FGS) experience while negotiating their ethnic and professional identities. Despite having general parental support for pursuing an education, Latina and female FGS who are graduate students in the author's university department must juggle…

A writing center must not only offer additional intensive, personalized help for unsuccessful basic writing students, but it must also extend itself to the university community and beyond to the community at large. (HOD)

Describes how specific parallels and applications of older literature to contemporary times can enliven the standard British literature survey course. (RS)

Presents six suggestions from teachers for class activities and assignments, including Q (Questioning) Cards, career-oriented research papers, a strategy for revising papers, videos in literature courses, students as critiquers, and a practical purpose for research papers. (SR)

Offers a technique to develop the student's ability to critically evaluate another's writing as well as his or her own. (HOD)

Includes Thomas Dukes' rebuttal to Elizabeth Tebeaux's "The Trouble with Employees' Writing May Be Freshman Composition" (v15 n1) and Tebeaux's response. Dukes argues that inept freshman composition experiences are not the fault of the course itself. Tebeaux contends that freshman composition courses overemphasize expressive discourse. (RAE)

Presents a method for teaching poetry that attempts to make the (1) teachers' scholarship relevant to the students and (2) students' ignorance a source of knowledge for the teacher. Outlines an eight-step procedure that represents a useful introduction to poetry and gives students a technique with which to approach any poem. (JD)

The study presented in this bulletin shows considerable variation in the subjects included in the curriculum set up for prospective teachers. There is, however, a growing tendency toward a common standard, and the two-year courses are coming to have many elements in common both as to subject matter and methods of procedure. For example, in many…

Examined the relationship between bilingual students' level of English fluency and academic achievement. Data on British elementary and secondary school students indicated that bilingual students who were not fluent in English tended to do less well in school, and bilingual students who were fully fluent in English generally outperformed their…

College English teaching in China aims at developing students' communicative competence, in which vocabulary size plays an important role. According to Basic Requirements in the College English Syllabus (1999), Chinese university students' vocabulary size should be 4,200 words. From investigation and a study of the research literature, the author…

Student evaluations of teaching provide valued information about teaching effectiveness, and studies support the reliability and validity of such measures. However, research also illustrates potential moderation of student perceptions based on teacher gender, attractiveness, and even age, although the latter receives little research attention. In…

An energy analysis model is provided for college administrators in which information from their utility bills is used to measure the amount of energy saved and to determine the fuel costs avoided when they undertake an energy conservation program. Because the model explicitly takes into account variations in weather, it provides an essential tool…