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Martinez, Ramon Antonio – Research in the Teaching of English, 2010
This article reports findings from a qualitative study of Spanish-English code-switching--or "Spanglish"--among bilingual Latina/Latino sixth graders at a middle school in East Los Angeles. Analysis of the data revealed significant parallels between the skills embedded in students' everyday use of "Spanglish" and the skills…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Spanish, English, Qualitative Research
Haddix, Marcelle – Research in the Teaching of English, 2010
In this article, the author takes a close look at the discursive ways that Black and Latina preservice teachers reconcile tensions between their racial and linguistic identities and the construction of teacher identities in the current context of preservice teacher education in the United States. Through the study of language as representative of…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, African Americans, Hispanic Americans
Gritter, Kristine – Research in the Teaching of English, 2012
Permeable textual discussion occurs when the unofficial texts and discursive practices and personal histories that are already recognized and valued in students' cultures are scaffolds to academically sanctioned literacies. Ideally, permeable textual discussions are safe havens where students' identities (racial, gender, world views) are…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Ethnography, Discourse Analysis, Track System (Education)
Carbone, Paula M.; Orellana, Marjorie Faulstich – Research in the Teaching of English, 2010
This paper examines how writing samples produced by middle school students reveal their emerging academic identities through their rhetorical choices in writing. Analyses of two texts produced by each student revealed students' implicit understandings of the requirements of academic voice. Through comparisons of each student's texts, strategies…
Descriptors: Childrens Writing, Writing (Composition), Assignments, Essays
Skerrett, Allison – Research in the Teaching of English, 2010
This study compares and contrasts the selection and distribution of literary texts in the English programs of two diverse secondary schools, one in Massachusetts, USA, the other in Ontario, Canada. Analysis of the departments' curriculum documents, state/provincial curriculum policies, and teacher interviews indicated that at both schools,…
Descriptors: English Curriculum, Advanced Courses, Foreign Countries, Teacher Educators

Harste, Jerome C.; And Others – Research in the Teaching of English, 1984
Challenges existing assumptions about literacy and literacy learning in an effort to both demonstrate and explore the transactive potentials of theory and methodology in the study of literacy. (HOD)
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Ethnography, Language Acquisition, Language Research

Hartwell, Patrick – Research in the Teaching of English, 1980
Examines arguments in favor of the notion of dialect interference in writing; offers counterevidence and explores an alternative explanation for apparent dialect interference in writing. Concludes that pedagogies for teaching writing skills to native speakers of English that assume dialect interference are theoretically wrong, pedagogically…
Descriptors: Dialects, Educational Theories, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Luke, Allan – Research in the Teaching of English, 2004
So much has been made over the crisis in English literature as field, as corpus, and as canon in recent years, that some of it undoubtedly has spilled over into English education. This has been the case in predominantly English-speaking Anglo-American and Commonwealth nations, as well as in those postcolonial states where English remains the…
Descriptors: Global Approach, English Literature, English Instruction, Teaching Methods

Johnston, Bill; Juhasz, Andrea; Marken, James; Ruiz, Beverly Rolfs – Research in the Teaching of English, 1998
Studies the moral dimension of English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) teaching to adults. Analyzes examples of classroom interaction to reveal the moral substrate of the teacher's words and actions. Finds that various features of classroom routines and impromptu exchanges have profound moral significance. Suggests that the moral meanings present in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Classroom Environment, Classroom Research, English (Second Language)

Falk-Ross, Francine – Research in the Teaching of English, 2000
Presents a school-year-long case study of a fourth-grade boy with a history of language difficulties. Describes development of a set of curriculum-centered, classroom-based strategies for language and literacy support. Focuses on changes in the student's language constructions and communicative competence, in the form of the teacher's supportive…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Research, Discourse Analysis, English Instruction

Johnston, Bill – Research in the Teaching of English, 1999
Argues that the marginality of English as a second or foreign language (ESL/EFL) expatriate teachers exemplifies the postmodern condition affecting society at the end of the millennium. Uses the image of the paladin and its juxtaposition with the conceptual framework of postmodernity to generate new ways of thinking about issues in ESL/EFL…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Higher Education, Postmodernism, Teacher Behavior

Fecho, Bob – Research in the Teaching of English, 2000
Describes a teacher-research study using interpretive methods to address the question how learning about language connects secondary students to their world. Profiles three student inquirers, finding the students deepened their awareness of the role language plays in their lives. (NH)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Language Role, Secondary Education, Social Dialects

McCarthey, Sarah J. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1998
Demonstrates ways in which three students in a multi-age, literature-based grade 3/4 classroom constructed and reconstructed their subjectivities based on demands of the social setting. Notes that each student's participation was influenced by gender, social class, ethnicity, and the task. Suggests that interpretations of students' interactions…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Research, Elementary Education, Ethnicity
Aukerman, Maren S. – Research in the Teaching of English, 2007
This study offers an alternative to traditional notions of scaffolding for reading comprehension by tracing the evolution of a fifth-grade small group literature conversation in which the teacher sought to displace himself as "primary knower" (Berry, 1981) in the conversation. The study examines how the teacher shared evaluation with his…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)

Rymes, Betsy – Research in the Teaching of English, 2003
Describes two contrasting classroom contexts for eliciting personal narratives. Follows a second-language learner through second and third grade. Draws attention to the margins of classroom activity. Takes a step toward a discourse-based solution to what has been recognized as a discourse-based problem in schools: differential access to oral…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Environment, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language)