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Direct linkFogal, Gary G., Ed.; Verspoor, Marjolijn H., Ed. – Language Learning & Language Teaching, 2020
This volume integrates complex dynamic systems theory (CDST) and L2 writing scholarship through a collection of in-depth studies and commentary across a range of writing constructs, learning contexts, and second and foreign languages. The text is arranged thematically across four topics: (i) perspectives on complexity, accuracy, and fluency, (ii)…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing (Composition), Epistemology
Manchón, Rosa M., Ed. – Language Learning & Language Teaching, 2020
The current volume aspires to add to previous research on the connection between writing and language learning from a dual perspective: It seeks to reflect current progress in the domain as well as to foster future developments in theory and research. The theoretical postulations contained in Part I identify and expand in novel ways the diverse…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Huisman, Jeroen, Ed.; Tight, Malcolm, Ed. – International Perspectives on Higher Education Research, 2014
Higher education research is a developing field internationally, attracting more and more researchers from a great variety of disciplinary backgrounds within and beyond higher education institutions. As such, it is an arena within which a wide range of theories, methods, and methodologies are being applied. As an expanding multidisciplinary area…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Research, Educational Theories, Interdisciplinary Approach
Fels, Dawn, Ed.; Wells, Jennifer, Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2011
This book highlights the work of talented writing center teachers who share practices and lessons learned from today's most important high school writing centers. The authors offer innovative methods for secondary educators who deal with adolescent literacy, English language learners, new literacies, embedded professional development, and…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Literacy, Second Language Learning, Laboratories
Coiro, Julie, Ed.; Knobel, Michele, Ed.; Lankshear, Colin, Ed.; Leu, Donald J., Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2008
Situated at the intersection of two of the most important areas in educational research today -- literacy and technology -- this handbook draws on the potential of each while carving out important new territory. It provides leadership for this newly emerging field, directing scholars to the major issues, theoretical perspectives, and…
Descriptors: Guides, Multiple Literacies, Interdisciplinary Approach, Popular Culture
Download full textBrand, Alice, G., Comp.; Graves, Dick, Comp. – 1993
This collection of materials, a summary of a workshop, is in four parts. The first part lists participants in the workshop and their addresses. The second part presents a recorder's summary of statements made by six participants in a panel presentation on "What Is the Domain Beyond?" The third section gives brief accounts of three…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Dance, Higher Education, Meditation
Rose, Shirley K., Ed.; Weiser, Irwin, Ed. – 1999
This collection of essays discusses writing program administrators' (WPAs') research. The essays pose several questions to characterize WPAs' research practices: "What is WPA research? What characterizes WPA research and the sites of WPA inquiry?"; and "What values guide WPA research?" The 14 chapters are divided into 2 parts, "Writing Program…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Educational Administration, Higher Education, Writing Assignments
Peer reviewedResearch in the Teaching of English, 1980
Stephen P. Witte outlines a conceptual model useful for classifying research in written composition; Roy C. O'Connell surveys contents of volumes 1-10 of this journal; and Arthur Applebee and George Hillocks, Jr., trade comments about James Britton's study as reported in "The Development of Writing Abilities (11-18)." (GT)
Descriptors: Educational Research, English Instruction, Models, Research Needs
Pogner, Karl-Heinz, Ed. – Odense Working Papers in Language and Communication, 1994
This collection of articles deals with research on writing, didactics, mother-tongue writing (sociocognitive perspectives, writing profiles, writing strategies), and foreign language writing (a survey of empirical studies, an outline of different teaching methods, and a consideration of writing as a thinking tool). Following an introduction by the…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Writing (Composition)
Cooper, Charles R., Ed.; Greenbaum, Sidney, Ed. – 1986
In addition to presenting the results of analyses of written texts from a linguistic perspective, this book proposes productive methods for discourse analysis and identifies new directions for work on written communication. The studies presented in the book illustrate the importance of text linguistics and discourse analysis for research on…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Content Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Linguistics
Tynjala, Paivi, Ed.; Mason, Lucia, Ed.; Lonka, Kirsti, Ed. – 2001
This book, the seventh volume in the Studies in Writing International Series on the Research of Learning and Instruction of Writing, is an account of the current state of using writing as a tool for learning. The book presents psychological and educational foundations of the writing across the curriculum movement and describes writing-to-learn…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Learning Strategies, Theory Practice Relationship
Opie, Clive – SAGE Publications (CA), 2004
Developed as a hands-on guide for students engaged in educational research, this book provides an introduction to key qualitative and quantitative methods necessary for those commencing research for the first time. The reader is shown how these methods work and how their outcomes may be interpreted. The book includes: (1) A variety of examples and…
Descriptors: Writing Research, Research Methodology, Time Management, Computer Software
Goggin, Maureen Daly, Ed. – 2000
Heeding the call of noted rhetoric scholar Richard E. Young to engage in serious, scholarly investigations of the assumptions that underlie established practices and habits about writing, the contributors to this critical volume study a diverse array of disciplinary issues, situate their work in a wide matrix of theoretical perspectives, and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Intellectual Disciplines, Rhetorical Theory, Writing Across the Curriculum
Rosner, Mary, Ed.; Boehm, Beth, Ed.; Journet, Debra, Ed. – 1999
This collection of essays, culled from presentations at the first Thomas R. Watson Conference in Rhetoric and Composition, examines the development of composition as a profession, focusing on the period between 1963 and 1983 when composition changed in a number of crucial ways. Essays in the collection are: (1) "Composition History and…
Descriptors: High Schools, Higher Education, Intellectual Disciplines, Rhetoric
Philips, David, Ed. – 1992
This collection presents 15 articles on writing, three of them new and 12 of them representing the best of the 500 articles published since 1974 in "SET: Research Information for Teachers," a twice-yearly publication by the New Zealand and Australian Councils for Educational Research aimed at teachers, students, board members, and…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Grammar
