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IN ILOILO CITY
A Thesis
Presented to
the Faculty of the School of Graduate Studies
In Partial Fulfillment
by
Lucila P. Sobrepeña
Summer 1963
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
few and the periods for learning them were longer, and the
1
E. A. Cross and Elizabeth Carney, Teaching English
in High Schools (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1939),
p. 189.
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mon English words. They deplore the fact that high school
They read so little that they are not familiar with the words
who reported that their students simply did not know how to
spell.
ing to spell the English language is, with all its inconsis
3
Upton Sinclair, "Letter to the President," Saturday
Review, August 18, 1962, p. 45.
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