Word: englished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...obtain capable readers selection is made carefully from a large number of applicants and the readers are given a refresher course including a review of English fundamentals and practice in marking a variety of themes. During the school year readers have about 250 hours of work, 170 of which are spent in reading papers and 80 in conferences with students...
...this system follows the same lines that almost all of the projects do. Detailed questionnaires will elicit opinion and comment from teachers, readers, and students. Writing tests will be used to show the progress of students who are enabled by the contract correcting system to have more training in English...
Specifically, it was found, in a study of the English Department of Newton High School in the summer of 1956, that 30 percent of the material could be most suitably presented by a single, well-prepared and equipped lecturer speaking to a large group of students...
Accordingly, during the '56-57 school year the English Department offered 35 hours of lectures in English and 22 hours in speech. Groups attending the lectures varied in size from 100 to 450. The problems encountered were that some pupils, lost in the anonymity of a large group, were tempted to pay little attention and the others had gotten the impression that the lectures would be only a simple reveiw and thus came to class with a lazy attitude. To check these problems note taking was required of all students and tests were administered...
SUPRAD investigators have proposed a compromise for the Newton Junior High Schools. They have decided to try teaching in academically homogeneous groups, the content of science, mathematics, certain foreign languages, the specialized aspects of art, music, industrial arts and home economics, and the remedial aspects of English...