Date of Award:

5-1925

Document Type:

Thesis

Degree Name:

Master of Arts (MA)

Department:

Education

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Not Specified

Abstract

For several years past, some of the best students of americancolleges have been graduating with a major in English; and have gone forth full of hope and enthusiasm to perfect the oral and written expression of Young America, and to implant in them a taste for, and an appreciation of, worthwhile literature. While there can be no doubt that the training of teachers has steadily improved, and the time allotted to the study of English has constantly increased; yet critics say, and people generally believe them, that young America is still untaught. These critics declare that altho our boys and girls spend about one-fourth of their school time for ten or twelve years in the study of English, they cannot spell simple words, they cannot write in clear forceful language; they cannot speak effective fluent English, and that they have no taste for or appreciation of good literature when they hear it. Some teachers deny these charges; others admit that the charges are true, by place the blame elsewhere. These latter say that notwithstanding good schools, well qualified teachers, and much drill and training, the students are poor because of their careless habits, and the slovenly English they continually hear, except during the particular hour of the day in which they are under the tutorage of the English teacher.

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