The Teaching of English in England: Being the Report of the Departmental Committee Appointed by the President of the Board of Education to Inquire Into the Position of English in the Educational System of England

H.M. Stationery Office, 1926 - 393 Seiten

SECTION	15

Comparative neglect of speech training hitherto	66

Standard English to be taught preferably through phonetic symbols	67

Auxiliary methods in use in the schools	68

Reasons for teaching standard English Attitude towards dialect	69

International importance of English	70

Oral Expression	71

Infant School methods 72 General success of the Infant Schools	72

The point of view of the Boards Circular on the Teaching of English in Secondary Schools 1910	266

Value of tests in Communication in English	267

Their application in Civil Service Examinations	269

Examination of Elementary School pupils	270

The First School Examination Views of the Investigators appointed by the Secondary School Examinations Council	271

and of the English Association	272

The Second School Examination and University Scholarship Examinations	273

Difficulties connected with tests in use of English	274

Importance of continuing oral methods in the Senior Department	73

Misapprehensions sometimes met with	74

Oral work the condition of successful English teaching The Writing of English	75

Place of Composition in Education	76

Evidence of Business Firms	77

Teaching of Composition not simply a matter of doing set essays	78

Reasons for which the teaching sometimes fails	79

Need for positive methods of teaching	80

Suggestions by witnesses	81

Specialist teachers of Composition how far desirable	82

The problem of Spelling	83

Attention sometimes concentrated too much on the mechanical side	84

Reasons for this	85

Increase in recent years in extent of childrens reading	88

i increased command of the language ii the acquisition of knowledge iii enjoy ment of literature	89

Some methods adopted	90

Influence of the teacher	91

Value of the poetry lesson	92

The value of these Classes in the past	244

The necessity of establishing a clear connection between	250

The need for instruction in pure or functional grammar as distinct from English Grammar The scope of the subject	264

Summary of conclusions	265

Dangers connected with examinations in Literature	275

Necessity for them	276

SOME PARTICULAR ASPECTS	278

The paper on General Literature	279

Desirability of including some general questions in paper on set books	280

Meaning of special study	281

Relation of the ideal examiner to the ideal teacher The art and the science of English teaching	282

Value of an oral examination in Literature	283

Professor Jespersens appraisement of the structure	286

PAGE	287

The Drama as an Educational Activity	309

Early importance of the Drama in education 285 The writing of plays in school	310

286	312

The reading of plays in school 289 291 The acting of plays in school 292 Dramatic performances in Day Continuation Schools 293 in Evening Instit...	323

Education and the Professional Stage	324

Speech Training in School and on the Stage	325

Some possible Dangers in Reading	335

Its claim upon the time devoted to English studies in English	341

SUMMARY OF PRINCIPAL CON	348

List of Witnesses	361

A note on the Teaching of the MotherTongue	368

Memorandum by the Standing Committee	376

Titel	The Teaching of English in England: Being the Report of the Departmental Committee Appointed by the President of the Board of Education to Inquire Into the Position of English in the Educational System of England
Autor/in	Great Britain. Board of Education. Committee on English in the Educational System of England
Verlag	H.M. Stationery Office, 1926
Länge	393 Seiten

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