This article explores shared language development in secondary to postsecondary transitions. Based on survey findings of secondary students, the authors advocate using a shared language corpus to access and collect student and instructor language about writing to smooth secondary to postsecondary transitions and transitions beyond the FYC…

This article presents the concept of heritage literacy, a decision-making process by which people adopt, adapt, or alienate themselves from tools and literacies passed on between generations of people. In an auto-ethnographic study, four generations of a single family and Amish participants from the surrounding community were interviewed to…

Describes how behavioral and cognitive psychologies regarding language learning can be synthesized in the teaching of written composition to students learning English as a second language. (MM)

Discusses evidence in support of combining nonnative speakers and native speakers of nonstandard English for instructional purposes. Discusses the goals and strategies for language learning these two groups have in common, arguing that the two produce many of the same linguistic forms and can interact profitably toward language acquisition. (HTH)

Analyzes in depth Joseph M. Williams'"Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace." Discusses the distinction between learning and acquiring a skill, and questions whether literary style can be learned as Williams claims or whether it can only be acquired. (HTH)