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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
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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
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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
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Schleppegrell, Mary J. – Research in the Teaching of English, 2007
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…
Descriptors: Researchers, Academic Discourse, Literacy, Grammar
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Baugh, John – Research in the Teaching of English, 2007
In this article, the author shares his experience growing up speaking African American Vernacular English in school and his observations about nonstandard American plantation English. The author's amateur linguistic observations about nonstandard American plantation English gave rise to immediate dialect comparisons between African American…
Descriptors: African Americans, Standard Spoken Usage, Misconceptions, Equal Education
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Amare, Nicole – Research in the Teaching of English, 2007
This article examines seven online grammar guides for instances of linguistic sexism. The grammar sentences from .edu Websites were analyzed based on NCTE's "Guidelines for Gender-Fair Use of Language" (2002) using the criteria of generic he and man; titles, labels, and names; gender stereotypes; order of mention (firstness); and ratio of male to…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Sentences, Stereotypes, Linguistics
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Hawes, Thomas; Thomas, Sarah – Research in the Teaching of English, 1997
Examines tense, aspect, and voice choices in the reporting verbs in a corpus of research articles from the "Journal of Psychosomatic Medicine." Investigates how such choices correlate with other syntactic elements in the citations, as well as with the discourse functions of the citations in their contexts. (TB)
Descriptors: Citation Analysis, Citations (References), Language Usage, Syntax
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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
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Neuner, Jerome L. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1987
Compares cohesive ties and chains in the good and poor essays of college freshmen. Results indicate that longer chains, greater variety of words, and greater maturity or word choice characterize good writing. (SRT)
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Freshman Composition, Higher Education, Language Usage
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Applebee, Arthur N. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1999
Offers a 30-year retrospective on the evolution of a researcher and of the field of English teaching. Discusses the tradition of scholarship that seeks to ground its approaches to teaching and learning in the best of their understandings of language use and language learning, drawing broadly on rhetoric, linguistics, sociology, literary criticism,…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English Curriculum, English Instruction, English Teachers
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Wilson, LaVisa Cam – Research in the Teaching of English, 1978
A study concluded that significant differences did exist in the inclusion of females when using masculine/generic as compared to neutral/generic nouns. (DD)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Females, Language Attitudes, Language Research
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Stewig, John W.; Lamb, Pose – Research in the Teaching of English, 1973
Indicates a strong relationship between the various aspects of language proficiency and social class and race and discusses the complex relationships among aspects of language proficiency. (RB)
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education, Language Research, Language Usage
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Lichtman, Marilyn; Rogers, Sarah – Research in the Teaching of English, 1979
Investigated the relationship between feelings of comfort and maturity of expression revealed by inner-city preschool Black children in three situations: with a familiar teacher, with the mother or principal caretaker in the home, and with a chosen peer. (DD)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Black Youth, Disadvantaged Youth, Language Acquisition
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Lindholm, Kathryn J. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1987
Examines the process of question development in a second language. Shows that with greater English proficiency (1) there was less reliance on syntactically simple construction, (2) questions about personal information and actions and intentions questions increased, (3) requests for factual information and classification questions decreased. (SRT)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Research, Language Usage, Learning Processes
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Kirschner, Samuel A.; Poteet, G. Howard – Research in the Teaching of English, 1973
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)
Descriptors: Community Colleges, English Instruction, Higher Education, Language Research
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