National Council of Teachers of English

ForewordThe Committee on Publications of NCTE is pleased to offer to the profession this second practical classroom work on the varieties of English spoken by Americans. The publication is sponsored by the Commission on the English Language. An earlier Council publication, Dialects U.S.A., by Jean...

Preservice Teachers as Researchers: Developing Practice and Creating Theory in the English Classroom Eleanor Kutz The students who enter my pre-practice course for English majors want to learn classroom strategies—answers to their as yet unformulated questions about what they will encounter...

Children's Place in the Language Arts Curriculum: Victims, Beneficiaries, and Critics Anne Haas Dyson Me and my mommy and dad live in different houses. My daddy used to live with my mommy and me and my brother and my cousin. My daddy goes different places and different stores and my mommy goes...