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Peer reviewedCalfee, Robert C. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1976
Proposes priorities for future research on reading. (DD)
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Reading Research, Research Needs, Research Problems
Peer reviewedRosenblatt, Louise M. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1995
Responds to "A Symposium on the Usefulness of Literacy Research" in the same issue of this journal. Maintains that Alan Purves totally misreads the author's theory of reading approaches. Explains that "efferent reading" and "aesthetic reading" are not discrete categories but terms on a continuum. (TB)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Reader Text Relationship, Reading Processes, Reading Research
Peer reviewedRafoth, Bennett A.; Combs, Warren – Research in the Teaching of English, 1983
Concludes that syntax as an isolated factor carries no special effects on the two factors comprising ethos--authoritativeness and character. (FL)
Descriptors: Authors, Credibility, Higher Education, Reading Attitudes
Peer reviewedElster, Charles A. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1998
Examines influences of text language and structure and text-picture relationships on 33 preschoolers' emergent readings of three picture books and teacher-led shared readings that preceded them. Indicates findings on emergent readings support a transactional model of emergent reading and highlight the importance of considering the influence of…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Illustrations, Picture Books, Preschool Education
Peer reviewedVolk, Dinah; de Acosta, Martha – Research in the Teaching of English, 2003
Analyzes literacy events co-constructed by three bilingual, mainland Puerto Rican kindergarteners and the network of adults and children in their homes who support their developing literacy. Reveals and gives value to some of the many literacies in the children's lives and communicates a respectful approach to the study of literacy in families…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Ethnography, Family Literacy, Kindergarten
Peer reviewedGraves, Michael F. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1976
Descriptors: Educational Research, English Education, Financial Support, Reading Research
Peer reviewedBeaven, Mary H. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1972
Article relates research done to discover with which characters adolescents form strong identifications; and to learn which characters these youths most admire. (Author)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Comparative Testing, Literary Influences, Reading Research
Peer reviewedFisher, Carol J.; Natarella, Margaret A. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1982
Examines the poetry preferences of 792 children in grades one, two, and three in a national sampling. (HOD)
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, National Surveys, Poetry, Primary Education
Peer reviewedWilkinson, Phyllis A.; Patty, Del – Research in the Teaching of English, 1993
Finds that sentence combining practice may have enhanced cohesion knowledge and had a positive effect on general reading comprehension. (SR)
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Grade 4, Intermediate Grades, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedDowning, John; Thomson, Doug – Research in the Teaching of English, 1977
Concludes that boys succeed less well in reading than girls because of cultural expectations that reading is more suited to girls than to boys. (DD)
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Elementary Education, Reading Achievement, Reading Research
Peer reviewedChester, Robert D.; Dulin, Ken L. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1977
Concluded that the combined scores on the Dulin-Chester Scale, Estes Scale, and Reading Weights Test comprised the best means of distinguishing five separate reading attitude groups. (DD)
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Educational Research, Grade 7, Literature Appreciation
Peer reviewedPellegrini, A. D.; And Others – Research in the Teaching of English, 1991
Examines the predictive relations among dimensions of symbolic play (object and ideational transformations), linguistic verbs, and measures of early literacy. Indicates that use of linguistic verbs predicts Concepts of Print scores and that symbolic play and linguistic verbs predict emergent writing and reading, respectively. (SR)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Emergent Literacy, Prereading Experience, Preschool Education
Peer reviewedNicol, Elizabeth Anne – Research in the Teaching of English, 1975
Descriptors: Educational Research, Literary Discrimination, Literature, Reader Response
Peer reviewedHade, Daniel D. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1988
Argues that one way to investigate the relationship of text to story taker (reader or listener) is to compare how the writer has made the story to how the story taker has recreated the story. Indicates a resonance between the story taker's retelling and the original text. (RAE)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Cognitive Development, Reader Response, Reader Text Relationship
Peer reviewedEvanechko, Peter; And Others – Research in the Teaching of English, 1973
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Linguistic Competence, Reading Achievement, Reading Readiness
