What Is English?,9780873523820

What Is English?

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ISBN13: 9780873523820
ISBN10: 0873523822
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1990-11-01
Publisher(s): Modern Language Assn of Amer
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Table of Contents

Preface v
Introduction: About the English Coalition Conference
3(12)
A Remarkable Consensus about a Main Theme
15(16)
Democracy through Language
31(18)
Taking a Theoretical Stance
49(23)
What Follows from Taking a Theoretical Stance?
72(22)
The Question of Literature
94(14)
What Is English?
108(18)
The Question of Writing: The Wars in My Head
126(23)
Goals and Testing
149(30)
Questioning Two Assumptions of the Profession
179(18)
The Danger of Softness
197(21)
Concluding Word: About Teachers and Conditions for Teaching
218(13)
Appendix A Participants at the Conference 231(7)
Appendix B About Lists: A Proposal 238(8)
Appendix C Evaluation, Grading, and the Hunger to Rank People: A Proposal 246(14)
Appendix D Situating Me 260(7)
Works Cited 267

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