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Beach, Richard; Bigelow, Martha; Dillon, Deborah; Dockter, Jessie; Galda, Lee; Helman, Lori; Kapoor, Richa; Ngo, Bic; O'Brien, David; Sato, Mistilina; Scharber, Cassie; Jorgensen, Karen; Liang, Lauren; Braaksma, Martine; Janssen, Tanja – Research in the Teaching of English, 2009
This article presents an annotated bibliography of research works about digital/technology tools for literacy instruction, discourse/cultural analysis, literacy, literary response/literature/narrative, media-information literacy/media use, professional development/teacher education related to English/language arts, reading, second language…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Educational Research, Technology Uses in Education, Literacy Education
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Smolkin, Laura B. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1997
Explores responses of 10 fifth graders to the dialog of a play. Creates 12 speech act interruption points and asks children to write predictions for the character's line. Examines these for conversational cooperativity. Finds children's oral explanations for their predictions revealed two major interpretive stances--an interactive focus and a…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Discourse Analysis, Drama, English Instruction
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Hemphill, Lowry – Research in the Teaching of English, 1999
Explores differences in adolescents' styles of responding to poetry and relates these differences to contrasts in the way students narrate stories of personal experience. Finds contrasts between working-class and middle-class students in styles of responding to poetry which show parallels with their contrasting styles of narrating stories of…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Higher Education, Language Styles, Literature Appreciation
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Saks, A. L. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1996
Presents a 115-item annotated bibliography of research in the teaching of writing published between January and June 1996, including books, articles and dissertations under subtopic headings such as historical studies, language, family literacy, language interrelationships, language and learning, literature, reader response, writing, assessment,…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Computers, Educational History, English Instruction
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Hancock, Marjorie R. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1993
Discusses how the active meaning-making process of 10 sixth-grade students was reflected in the written responses in literature journals. Analyzes the responses to determine response styles. Suggests how complex response to literature is for elementary and middle school students. (HB)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Elementary Education, English Instruction, Journal Writing
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Miall, David S. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1985
Examines the use of the repertory grid technique to describe student responses to the poem "Frost at Midnight" by Coleridge. (HOD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, English Instruction, English Literature, Higher Education
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Dieterich, Daniel J.; Behm, Richard H. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1983
Provides annotations of research studies in the areas of language, literature and media study, writing, and English teacher education. (HOD)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Discourse Analysis, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
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Beach, Richard; Wendler, Linda – Research in the Teaching of English, 1987
Compares inferences about story characters' behavior, perceptions, and goals made by eighth graders, eleventh graders, college freshmen, and college seniors. Concludes that from early adolescence to young adulthood, readers shift from conceptions of characters in terms of immediate surface feelings and behaviors to conceptions in terms of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Characterization, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes