... Chapter 3.) If two or more students had the same choice of text, the first to register forthe text would get it, and the other(s) would have to make other choices. The registrationfor extra-course-book ... only chose to investigate the application of the portfolioapproach to the teaching of American literature, after students had finished one semester ofEnglish literature. The reason why I chose ... whichconsisted of 29 American literary texts o utside the course book (see appendix 8). Eachstudent had to choose from the list and register for one text as the subject of their essay andoral presentation...