Written to provide classroom teachers access to the many worthwhile findings resulting from educational, psychological, and sociological research studies done in Europe and the United States, this book is a ready and easy reference for mathematics teachers. It consists of four chapters, each presenting a collection of teaching tips. It is an important first step in bringing educational research findings to the practitioners they were intended to help.
Research is beginning to unearth the astounding wealth of oral traditions that have served as a vital cultural activity and verbal art for peoples throughout the world, from antiquity to the present. In this thirteenth volume of the MLA series Options for Teaching, forty-two scholar-teachers bring these discoveries and rediscoveries from the ......
An Introduction to Old Occitan is the only textbook in print for learning the language used by the troubadours in southern France during the Middle Ages. Each of the thirty-two chapters discusses a subject in the study of the language (e.g., stressed vowels, subjunctive mood) and includes an exercise based on a reading of an Occitan text that has ......
Offers practical ideas for implementing content-based instruction - using subject matter rather than grammar - through eleven case studies of models in various languages, academic settings, and levels of proficiency.
This volume confronts the challenges presented by the racial, ethnic, class, gender, religious, age, and physical-ability differences among today's writing students.
Now at seventy-three volumes, this popular MLA series (ISSN 1059-1133) addresses a broad range of literary texts. Each volume surveys teaching aids and critical material and brings together essays that apply a variety of perspectives to teaching the text. Upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, student teachers, education specialists, and ......
In a recent survey of college teachers, Walden was mentioned more frequently than any other work as a text regularly included in nineteenth-century American literature courses. Today's students are as likely to encounter Thoreau in freshman composition classes as they are in upper-level environmental literature seminars. "The challenge of teaching ......
Margaret Atwood's works, especially The Handmaid's Tale, are widely taught not only in literature courses but also in economics, political science, sociology, film, and business courses. Her writings span a variety of genres and address such themes as identity, Canadian nationalism, struggle for survival, sexual politics, and shamanism; this rich ......
