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English As A Second Language: Evaluation Of A Language Program Designed For & Implemented In The Colombian Oil Company's Research Institute, Patience Nave May 1989

English As A Second Language: Evaluation Of A Language Program Designed For & Implemented In The Colombian Oil Company's Research Institute, Patience Nave

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

An incredible proliferation of knowledge has generated a critical need for professionals in all fields to have access to current information and research results. Costs for study and research are extremely high, particularly in science fields, and most professionals seek to minimize loss in time and funds by avoiding duplication of efforts. Language is often a handicap, preventing the voluntary sharing of valuable information between individuals and countries, and many recognize the establishment of a universal language as a means of eliminating this unnecessary barrier. English is rapidly becoming accepted as a universal means of communication, but those who seek …


Preface And Introductory Materials To Approaches To Teaching Cather’S My Ántonia, Susan J. Rosowski Jan 1989

Preface And Introductory Materials To Approaches To Teaching Cather’S My Ántonia, Susan J. Rosowski

Department of English: Faculty Publications

The aim of this volume is to provide background and ideas others have found most helpful in teaching My Antonia. The portion presented here describes Cather's role in preparing the text and supervising the physical design of My Antonia, and reviews other writing by Cather relevant to My Antonia, as well as biographical studies and criticism recommended most often by instructors who teach it. It includes also a selective introduction to materials recommended for instructors' libraries: reference works on Cather, general background, biographical studies, and critical commentary. Finally, it surveys aids to teaching: pedagogical articles and non-print …


A Cooperative Approach To A Literature Based Reading Program, Bonnie A. Congdon Jan 1989

A Cooperative Approach To A Literature Based Reading Program, Bonnie A. Congdon

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.


An Integrated Approach To Music And The Language Arts For The Sixth Grade, Theresa A. Dees Jan 1989

An Integrated Approach To Music And The Language Arts For The Sixth Grade, Theresa A. Dees

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.


A Hands-On Approach To Literature: Designing A Grade 1-3 Whole Language Literature Unit, Bonnie L. Griffith Jan 1989

A Hands-On Approach To Literature: Designing A Grade 1-3 Whole Language Literature Unit, Bonnie L. Griffith

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.


Implementing A Literature-Based Program: Theory To Classroom, Judy A. Miller Jan 1989

Implementing A Literature-Based Program: Theory To Classroom, Judy A. Miller

Theses Digitization Project

Inservice--Peer coaching--Grade-level meetings.


Reading To Children: Core Literature Units For Kindergarten And First Grade, Susan S. Abel Jan 1989

Reading To Children: Core Literature Units For Kindergarten And First Grade, Susan S. Abel

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.


My Ántonia As Plains Epic, Paul Olson Jan 1989

My Ántonia As Plains Epic, Paul Olson

Department of English: Faculty Publications

When I assign My Antonia, I teach it to the sons and daughters or more distant relatives, in blood or spirit, of the people it treats. I have had relatives of Mrs. Pavelka in my classes, citizens of Red Cloud and Wilber, Czechs who still retain their Czech culture, and classicists at the University of Nebraska who study what Cather studied here. It is thus impossible entirely to make the work of art defamiliarize the experience, as Shklovsky would have it do, nor would I want it to remove the students from their pasts and knowledge of family or …


The Romanticism Of My Ántonia: Every Reader's Story, Susan J. Rosowski Jan 1989

The Romanticism Of My Ántonia: Every Reader's Story, Susan J. Rosowski

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Romanticism is fundamental to My Antonia, shaping the attitudes that control its structure, style, and narration, as well as its expectations of a reader. I immediately face a dilemma in teaching this romanticism, however, for most of my students haven't even the most rudimentary understanding of what romanticism is. They have negative associations of something emotional, irrelevant, and backward-looking; asked for details, they describe surface features that vaguely concern poets brooding about nature. Almost none understands romanticism as a way of knowing, by which individuals use their imaginations to create value in an otherwise meaningless world (Rosowski, Voyage). …