Edna Lue Furness
Biographic Data
| ID | 5780744 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edna Lue Furness |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edna Lue |
| FAMILY NAME | Furness |
| SIGNATURE | FURNESS E L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wyoming Laramie, Wyoming |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1949 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1962 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Portrait of the Pedagogue in Eighteenth Century England
The age which was not only that of Dr. Johnson but also that of Pope, Addison, Gay, Goldsmith, Fielding, Lord Chesterfield, Gibbon, Horace Walpole, Gainsborough, and Garrick is surely to be reckoned among brilliant periods of English history. And, as William Sydney notes, these great figures lived, moved, and had their being against a strange, quaint, frivolous, and corrupt English background in which beaux strutted about Pall Mall displaying all…
Se llamaba Bolívar
Toward more effective instruction in reading and speech
The mystery of communication-of the transubstantiation of immaterial ideas or emotions into the sensory symbols we call language-has stimulated great thinkers down through the ages (8, p. 16). For example, the great Roman orator, Cicero, writes in De Officiis, Reason and speech bring men together and unite them in a sort of natural society. Nor in anything are we further removed from the nature of wild beasts
Listening and learning
If we glance back into history we find that at one time listening was the principal procedure by which a man acquired his education and expanded his own intellectual background. Some of the world's greatest teachers-Homer, Socrates, Christ, and Mohammed-employed speech and listening more extensively and more effectively in their teaching than they used writing and reading (9). As Tennyson reminds us in Passing of Arthur, The old order changeth, y…
Five Fetishes in the Teaching of English
The Evolution of English in American Education
The magic touch for english teachers
ONG BEFORE the current popularization of individual instruction, English and language teachers were aware of the wide differences in the rates at which children progress with their language lessons. Howarth, after experimenting with three sets of language exercise books in the hands of forty fifth-grade pupils, concluded that rates of progress of individuals were so uneven and individual difficulties so various that
Other Young Americans: Latin America's Young People
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Temas de Conversación sobre Las Américas
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Other Young Americans: Latin America's Young People
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Temas de Conversación sobre Las Américas
The magic touch for english teachers
ONG BEFORE the current popularization of individual instruction, English and language teachers were aware of the wide differences in the rates at which children progress with their language lessons. Howarth, after experimenting with three sets of language exercise books in the hands of forty fifth-grade pupils, concluded that rates of progress of individuals were so uneven and individual difficulties so various that
The Evolution of English in American Education
Listening and learning
If we glance back into history we find that at one time listening was the principal procedure by which a man acquired his education and expanded his own intellectual background. Some of the world's greatest teachers-Homer, Socrates, Christ, and Mohammed-employed speech and listening more extensively and more effectively in their teaching than they used writing and reading (9). As Tennyson reminds us in Passing of Arthur, The old order changeth, y…
Five Fetishes in the Teaching of English
Se llamaba Bolívar
Toward more effective instruction in reading and speech
The mystery of communication-of the transubstantiation of immaterial ideas or emotions into the sensory symbols we call language-has stimulated great thinkers down through the ages (8, p. 16). For example, the great Roman orator, Cicero, writes in De Officiis, Reason and speech bring men together and unite them in a sort of natural society. Nor in anything are we further removed from the nature of wild beasts
Portrait of the Pedagogue in Eighteenth Century England
The age which was not only that of Dr. Johnson but also that of Pope, Addison, Gay, Goldsmith, Fielding, Lord Chesterfield, Gibbon, Horace Walpole, Gainsborough, and Garrick is surely to be reckoned among brilliant periods of English history. And, as William Sydney notes, these great figures lived, moved, and had their being against a strange, quaint, frivolous, and corrupt English background in which beaux strutted about Pall Mall displaying all…
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