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…

This article presents an annotated bibliography of "Research in the Teaching of English" (RTE). The 2010 version of the bibliography involves a major change--the bibliography is available solely as a downloadable pdf file at http://www.ncte.org/journals/rte/issues/v45-2. As the length of the bibliography has grown from 15 pages in 2003 to 88 pages…

The domain of inquiry by literacy researchers has expanded greatly over the past generation. Literacy researchers now address out-of-school literacies, multimodal texts, literacy across the curriculum and other important issues. Research on literacy development has become even more important in the high stakes assessment environments in today's…

Proposes a way of conducting a research project that involves the teachers and provides a reliable grading scale for evaluating college students' ability to write compositions. (RB)

Most students seem not to have learned the transformational grammar their teachers said had been taught.

Two members of the staff of the National Assessment report on one analysis that sought to relate different kinds of writing errors to each other. (RB) Aspect of National Assessment (NAEP) dealt with in this document: Results (Secondary Analyses).

In 1986, while still at Harvard, I started teaching summer school at the Bread Loaf School of English, the graduate program in English of Middlebury College. Bread Loaf offers courses in literature, theater, and writing--here I fit in. I came to that job with a background in applied linguistics and cognitive development, but not in literature, and…

Tests a feedback system designed to improve the originality of the writing of elementary school children. (RB)

The disappointing results of research into growth in writing skills may be due to students being tested for skills other than those they have been taught.

Significant correlations, especially between the black and white groups, and black and Hispanic groups, indicate that all groups show similar types of non-standard English usage and generally with the same frequency. (Author)

Analysis of adult discussions reveals a lack of fit between pedagogical grammars and actual usage. (JH)

Sensitivity to syntactic structure can be increased by direct instruction. (JH)

Presents an annotated bibliography of research materials of special interest to English teachers. Material is divided into four main sections: writing, language, literature, and teacher education. (AEW)

Describes research studies that relate to writing instruction, writing processes, language development, literature, and English teacher education. (HOD)