English Journal - Volume 49, Issue 7, 1960

The agonizing process of evolving a more accurate grammar for presentation in the classroom goes on. Dr. Conlin, a professor of English education at the Arizona State University, Tempe, succinctly examines the problem of form and function in structural grammar, pointing out that “in a modem analytic language we are still plagued with inflectional changes which at times point in the wrong direction. Since function determines meaning and therefore response, identification of function is of primary concern.”

An unusual teaching unit which incorporates study of literature and other art forms, research techniques, and writing is described here by two teachers in the senior high school at Leavenworth, Kansas.

The alliance between English teachers and librarians is necessarily a firm one. In this article the author discusses aspects of that alliance as he reviews an important new publication of the American Association of School Librarians, Standardfs or School Library Programs Mr. Christ, chairman of the English Department in the Andrew Jackson High School, St. Albans, New York, was the NCTE representative on the committee which prepared the new volume.

This discussion of a journalism unit which emphasizes reporting of speeches is especially timely during a Presidential campaign Mr. Levinson, a former newspaperr eporter, teaches English and journalism at the Enterprise High School, Redding, California.