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Mary Amanda Stewart; Douha Abbasher – Research in the Teaching of English, 2024
Although research illustrates the benefits of biliteracy, most bilingual students will not have access to a bilingual education program in which they receive official instruction in all their languages. However, the English language arts can become a space where any teacher can support students' biliteracy through purposeful curricular,…
Descriptors: Russian, Bilingualism, Literacy, Early Childhood Education
Havva Zorluel Özer – Research in the Teaching of English, 2024
Drawing on surveys and interviews with college writing instructors and students at a public university in the United States, this mixed methods study revealed that in many cases instructors adopted translingual orientations, whereas students were committed to norms in their views of writing across differences. Students' orientations to language as…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Language Usage
Tullock, Brandon D.; Fernandez-Villanueva, Marta – Research in the Teaching of English, 2013
In recent years, scholars have voiced the need for research which focuses on the ability of multilinguals to write across multiple languages rather than on the limitations that they face when composing in a non-native language. In order to better understand multilingual writers as resourceful and creative problem-solvers, the current study aims to…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Multilingualism, Writing (Composition), Problem Solving
Dewayani, Sophie – Research in the Teaching of English, 2013
The "Education for All policy" is one of the Indonesian government's solutions to return children who work in the street to formal schooling. Unfortunately, access to higher education, which can enable vertical mobility for these children, is constrained by many factors, including financial opportunities. This study examines the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Concept, Futures (of Society), Poverty
Liu, Dilin – Research in the Teaching of English, 2011
Despite a long debate and the accompanying call for changes in the past few decades, grammar instruction in college English classes, according to some scholars, has remained largely "disempowering,""decontextualized," and "remedial" (Micciche, 2004, p. 718). To search for more effective and empowering grammar teaching, this study explores the use…
Descriptors: College English, Language Research, Grammar, Problem Based Learning
Skerrett, Allison; Bomer, Randy – Research in the Teaching of English, 2013
In this article, we show how two transnational youth, with the instructional support of their teacher, recruited their languages and lifeworlds, particularly their border-crossing experiences, as tools for engaging with school-based literacy practices. We analyze literary texts that the students composed, showing how the students' uses of their…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Student Mobility, Literacy, Personal Narratives
Purcell-Gates, Victoria; Perry, Kristen H.; Briseno, Adriana – Research in the Teaching of English, 2011
In this methodological and theoretical article, we address the need for more cross-case work on studies of literacy in use within different social and cultural contexts. The Cultural Practices of Literacy Study (CPLS) project has been working on a methodology for cross-case analyses that are principled in that the qualitative nature of each case,…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Grounded Theory, Ethnography, Databases
Crumpler, Thomas P.; Handsfield, Lara J.; Dean, Tami R. – Research in the Teaching of English, 2011
In this study we take up challenges regarding researcher positionality, representation, and the construction of difference as a launching point to reflexively analyze our own practices within a research project exploring multilingualism, multiliteracies, and teacher development. Our data were drawn from a teacher study group we facilitated during…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Faculty Development, Discourse Analysis
Spalding, Elizabeth; Wang, Jian; Lin, Emily; Hu, Guangwei – Research in the Teaching of English, 2009
This study explored how voice developed in the English writing of 57 Chinese teachers of English who participated in a three-week writing workshop during a summer institute in a large, urban school district in southeastern China. Teachers from grades three through twelve wrote daily in English in a workshop environment. Primary data sources were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
Perry, Kristen H.; Moses, Annie M. – Research in the Teaching of English, 2011
This ethnographic study explored the ways in which media, particularly television, connected with English language and literacy practices among Sudanese refugees in Michigan. Three families with young children participated in this study. Data collection included participant observation, interviews, and collection of artifacts over 18 months, with…
Descriptors: Refugees, Family (Sociological Unit), Foreign Countries, Television
Wolfe, Paula – Research in the Teaching of English, 2010
The objective of this paper is to use psychoanalytic theory to examine how attempts at critical teaching in two English as a Second Language (ESL) classrooms related to changes in student subjectivity. The research critiques critical pedagogical assumptions regarding transformation and empowerment through a Lacanian perspective. More specifically,…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Psychiatry, Theories
Alston, Chandra L. – Research in the Teaching of English, 2012
The debate surrounding how best to support African American student writers continues today as the gap between achievement scores persists. This qualitative analysis documents the classroom structures and instructional practices of two English Language Arts teachers working in a predominately African American public middle school, whose students…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), African American Students, Social Support Groups, Process Approach (Writing)
Tardy, Christine M. – Research in the Teaching of English, 2012
The concept of voice has long attracted the attention of teachers, but more recently has also been the focus of a growing body of research aiming to understand voice as self-representation in writing. Adopting a socio-cultural orientation to voice, studies have revealed much about how textual choices are used by readers to build images of…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Qualitative Research, Literary Styles, Perspective Taking
Shi, Ling – Research in the Teaching of English, 2011
The present study is based on interviews of students (n = 48) and instructors (n = 27) from various disciplines in a North American research university and explores participants' comments on examples of some students' unacknowledged texts appropriated and drawn from published sources, classroom learning, or unidentified prior reading. Although…
Descriptors: Research Universities, College Students, Student Attitudes, Cultural Background
Black, Rebecca W. – Research in the Teaching of English, 2009
Based on longitudinal data from a three year ethnographic study, this article uses discourse analytic methods to explore the literacy and social practices of three adolescent English language learners writing in an online fan fiction community. Theoretical constructs within globalization and literacy studies are used to describe the influences of…
Descriptors: Fiction, Web Sites, Discourse Analysis, Adolescents