Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Annotated Table of Contents: Goals

Teaching English, How To.... by Raymond Stopper

Part One: Teaching English

Chapter 1: Goals. Why teach English? Somewhere I read that the goals of a college education are to learn how to learn, to learn how to think, to learn how to communicate, and to learn how to solve problems. I believe that that statement is a concise summary of what we try to accomplish when we teach English. Add to those goals: to read, respond to, discuss and criticize literary works and you have what teaching English is all about. In this chapter I give examples of how to help students achieve each of these goals.

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