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An Analysis of the Overt Teaching of the Monitor to Students of English as a Second Language
The overt teaching of the Monitor, or conscious rule awareness, to native Spanish-speaking ESL students was examined to note possible benefits to the students' oral English production. Native Spanish-speaking students of English (the experimental group) were taught an awareness of their ability to self-correct their spoken English. They were then compared to another group of native Spanish-speaking ESL students (the control group) in four areas: Ilyin Oral Interview score, total words produced, errors produced, and interference errors produced. The results of the study lend support to the theory that overt Monitor teaching could be beneficial to native Spanish-speaking students of English. The experimental group showed a significant gain in Ilyin scores and a significant reduction in the number of errors produced.
Date:
August 1983
Creator:
Conway, Jean (Priscilla Jean)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Composition Program for Accelerated High School Students
Since so many aids are available to help the teacher in the actual process of writing, this study will concentrate on the various ways in which other benefits, such as heightened awareness, educated imagination, increased self-esteem, and improved critical judgment, can be integrated into a composition class for accelerated students.
Date:
August 1969
Creator:
Reynolds, Grover A.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Utopia : An Idea-centered Activity for Accelerated Twelfth Grade Students
Through the ages dissatisfaction with his environment has provoked man to envision the ideal or "utopian" setting which would be more to his liking. The discontent of today's youth with the world it has inherited echoes the complaints of past generations and yet is of particular significance and relevance to the twelfth grade student soon to enter the college community where protests are becoming increasingly more articulate and effective. Established institutions and behavior codes are challenged with impunity although critics charge that such dissent is irresponsible and unsupported by positive, alternative proposals for improvement.
Date:
January 1970
Creator:
Hull, Mary F.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Some Innovations in an Oral Approach to Teaching English to Spanish-Speaking Students: Eighth Grade Level
The aim of this thesis is to suggest how some of the trends mentioned above may be incorporated into a program to help the eighth grade Spanish-speaking student in a predominately English-speaking school, to help the student who has not only given up the idea of getting an education himself, but is considered by his teachers "too late" to reach.
Date:
January 1970
Creator:
Woolsey, Normada L.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Teaching the College Freshman to Write
This thesis will deal with five points of emphasis--content, logic, organization, demon errors, and style. Not a complete manual for teaching freshman composition, this thesis will serve as a simplified guide. This thesis is written for the inexperienced teacher of freshman English who may need guidance, but it should also be of interest to the experienced teacher who wants to confirm his own practices or to find new approaches for teaching the college freshman how to write.
Date:
August 1969
Creator:
Harris, Pamela Matheidas
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Attitude of Mexican-Americans Toward Their Texas Spanish
"The purpose of this study is to examine the attitude of Mexican Americans toward their Texas Spanish in order to determine if present educational policies are successful in promoting high self-concepts for Mexican-American students..the conclusion of this thesis [is] that a sizable number of Mexican-Americans do not have a positive self-image as speakers of their native language. It is suggested that the rejection of Spanish dialects which are different and distinct from the school standard is a major factor in causing a low self-image on the part of the speaker of a non-standard dialect."-- leaves 1,3.
Date:
August 1973
Creator:
McDonald, Bobby Gene
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Outer Edges of the Middle Kingdom
Outer Edges of the Middle Kingdom is a narrative by the author about his two years as a teacher in the People's Republic of China. Organized chronologically, the account begins in August, 1985, and ends in June, 1987. The narrator describes meeting students at Tianjin University, Tianjin, China, designing English classes for English majors, daily episodes in the classroom, and interaction with Chinese colleagues. The narrative alternates between life on a university campus and extensive trips the narrator made to various cities in China, including Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, Kunming, Guilin, Harbin, Hohot, and Guangzhou. Also recounted are the narrator's reactions to the student demonstrations of December, 1986, and the resulting anti-bourgeois liberation campaign of January-April, 1987.
Date:
December 1987
Creator:
Lilly, Charles N.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Contemporary Women Poets of Texas
As a teacher of American literature in high school, I have become conscious of the importance of teaching students of that age level the lore and poetry of their native state. Poems of nature or local color in their own country will hold their interest when material from more distant points seems dull and uninteresting. Through my teaching I have become interested in the poetry of the Southwest and have enjoyed reading the poetry and knowing the poets through personal interview or correspondence.
Date:
August 1942
Creator:
Heatly, Katherine Stafford
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Problem of Spelling Reform
Spelling is a tool by which one records his thoughts and ideas; therefore it is a vital part of life. To fulfill its task successfully, spelling must be accurate. Spelling is that tool by which the happenings of the past are revealed to the present and are preserved for the future. For any individual who attempts to transfer his thoughts and words by symbols onto paper, correct spelling is a prime essential. It follows, then, that to develop perfect habits of spelling in order that perfect transcriptions of thoughts might be made is the duty of the teacher. This duty has been attempted by teachers for many generations. But it is an established fact that the goal has not been reached, for there is a stupendous number of misspellings in the written work of students in high schools. Many methods have been advanced for correcting this incompetence in spelling; when these were tried, they have failed to secure the coveted goal. In some instances the cure has aggravated the disease. Successful abolishment of this handicap baffles the teaching profession. In a course in American pronunciation recently conducted at North Texas State College, the teacher presented the fact that there are …
Date:
August 1950
Creator:
Lacey, Vera B.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
"Stealing Dreams" and Other Stories
The critical preface, "Learning to Break the Rules" discusses workshop rules as guidelines, as well as how and why I learned to break them. The creative portion of this thesis is made up of eight short stories: "The Many Incarnations of Blazer Chief," "Anna's Monsters," "The Pecan Tree's Daughter," "When the Seas Emptied," "The Umbrella Thief," "How to Forget," "Fracture," and "Stealing Dreams."
Date:
December 2014
Creator:
Matthews, Elise
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Collected Stories
A collection of short fiction stories that fixate on the role of the strange and the imagined.
Date:
May 2020
Creator:
Flannery, Brendan Conor
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Emerson's Ideal of Education
This paper discusses what Ralph Waldo Emerson believes to be the aim of education and how he thinks the aim is to be reached.
Date:
1941
Creator:
Hildebrand, Oneita
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Distribution of Prepositions in English Adverbial Phrases
This thesis describes the rules of prepositions in English adverbial phrases.
Date:
June 1966
Creator:
Patton, Judy S.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Sampling of Variant Idiomaticity in Freshman Composition at North Texas State University from 1958 to 1968
"The object of this thesis is neither to uphold the sacred cows of traditionalist grammar nor to forge a way for a liberal philology. It does, however, examine "the kind of English that most people use most of the time," that is, the idiom of the language, and specifically the phrases and expressions that compose idioms."--1.
Date:
June 1970
Creator:
Fuller, William H.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Stories: Spain, Lovers and Crazy Old Ladies
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Stories: Spain, Lovers and Crazy Old Ladies is a collection of short stories about relationships, traumas, memories and change.
Date:
May 2005
Creator:
Franco, Sally
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Bureaucratic Writing in America: A Preliminary Study Based on Lanham's Revising Business Prose
In this study, I examine two writing samples using a heuristic based on Richard A. Lanham's definition of bureaucratic writing in Revising Business Prose: noun-centered, abstract, passive-voiced, dense, and vague. I apply a heuristic to bureaucratic writing to see if Lanham's definition holds and if the writing aids or hinders the information flow necessary to democracy. After analyzing the samples for nominalizations, concrete/abstract terms, active/passive verbs, clear/unclear agents, textual density, and vague text/writers' accountability, I conclude that most of Lanham's definition holds; vague writing hinders the democratic process by not being accountable; and bureaucratic writing is expensive. Writers may humanize bureaucracies by becoming accountable. A complete study requires more samples from a wider source.
Date:
May 1993
Creator:
Su, Donna
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Effect of Journalism on Modern American Writing
This paper is an analysis of the relationship between journalism and formal literary usage in America. It is the purpose of this study to define and illustrate characteristics of modern journalese and to make a comparison of standards of correct usage advocated by recent textbooks in English composition and journalism. Particular attention will be given to diction, structure and length of sentences, capitalization, abbreviation, and punctuation. The conclusion will be a brief evaluation of modern journalism, a succinct resume of its impact on modern language and literature, and a simple prediction of future tendencies in journalistic and literary language. And to give a better perspective to the analysis of journalism and American English, the paper begins with a description of the American linguistic heritage.
Date:
August 1956
Creator:
Estes, Dorothy Southerland
System:
The UNT Digital Library
English Utopias
This thesis discusses Utopian thought and compares the Utopias of Plato, Sir Thomas More, Sir Francis Bacon, and Jonathan Swift in the areas of government, education, and social problems.
Date:
1940
Creator:
Smith, Stella Parker
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Homeland/Split
A collection of creative non-fiction essays that document the life of an Indian American immigrant.
Date:
December 2018
Creator:
Wagle, Jaya
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Conflict between Individualism and Socialism in the Life and Novels of Jack London
The fact that Jack London's novels seem to fall into two classes--those which he wrote for money and those which he wrote to deliver a social message--has led to this study of his life and novels. It is the aim of this thesis to show that his life was one of conflict between individualism and socialism and that this conflict is reflected to a varying degree in his novels.
Date:
1948
Creator:
Dozier, Mary Dean
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Anti-Intellectualism in the Works of John Steinbeck
There is evidence in Steinbeck's works of anti-intellectualism which is expressed by a somewhat maudlin handling of human emotions,and by a doggedly persistent attack on various intellectual types. This attitude is further revealed in Steinbeck's personal life by his abstention from any literary coteries or universities and his adamant refusal to discuss his life and works or offer his considerable talent to any institution of higher learning.
Date:
August 1968
Creator:
Dodge, Tommy R.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Characterization of the Nonconformist in the Novels of Sinclair Lewis
A cursory glance into the background of Sinclair Lewis reveals that he was an ardent nonconformist. In this study, however, it is pertinent to view more closely the conditions that caused his rebellious attitudes, not only those concerning social reform but also those concerning his personal quest for individuality.
Date:
August 1954
Creator:
Cowser, Robert G.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Characterization of the Schoolteacher in Nineteenth Century American Fiction
This study is limited largely to teachers in the public or common schools, although a few academy and female seminary teachers and at least one governess are included. It is not a definitive study, but a sufficient number of writings have been examined to make a fair sampling of the range of the nineteenth century American fiction.
Date:
August 1954
Creator:
Duncan, Mozelle
System:
The UNT Digital Library
"Life Holders"
Life Holders is a collection of personal essays reflecting on my interactions with others concerning my military service.
Date:
May 2019
Creator:
Irvin, William Ross
System:
The UNT Digital Library