| YEAR | RECIPIENT(S) | TITLE OF WORK |
2012 | Judith A. Langer | Envisioning Knowledge: Building Literacy in the Academic Literacies |
2011 | Neal Lerner | The Idea of a Writing Laboratory |
2010 | Marc Lamont Hill | Beats, Rhymes, and Classroom Life: Hip-Hop Pedagogy and the Politics of Identify |
2009 | Gerald Campano | "Immigrant Students and Literacy: Reading, Writing, and Remembering |
2008 | Leila Christenbury | Retracing the Journey: Teaching and Learning in an American High School |
2007 | Sharon Crowley | Toward a Civil Discourse: Rhetoric and Fundamentalism |
2006 | Catherine Prendergast | Literacy and Racial Justice: The Politics of Learning after Brown v. Board of Education |
2005 | NONE | No award given |
2004 | Gerald Graff | Clueless in Academe |
2003 | Michael W. Smith and Jeffrey Wilhelm | Reading Don’t Fix No Chevys: Literacy in the Lives of Young Men |
2002 | Anne J. Herrington and Marcia Curtis | Persons in Process: Four Stories of Writing and Personal Development in College (2000) |
2001 | Geneva Smitherman | Talkin That Talk: African American Language and Culture |
2000 | Thomas Newkirk | The Performance of Self in Student Writing |
1999 | Vivian Gussin Paley | The Girl with the Brown Crayon: How Children Use Stories to Shape Their Lives. |
1998 | Arthur N. Applebee | Curriculum as Conversation: Transforming Traditions of Teaching and Learning |
1997 | George Hillocks, Jr. | Teaching Writing as Reflective Practice (1995) (A synthesis of theory and practice for the reflective teaching of writing) |
1996 | Brian Street | Social Literacies: Critical Approaches to Literacy Development, Ethnography, and Education (1995) (An exploration of multiple literacies in cross-cultural contexts) |
1995 | Victor Villanueva, Jr. | Bootstraps: From an American Academic of Color (1994) (An account and a study of race, class, literacy, and literacy instruction) |
1994 | Anne Haas Dyson | Social Worlds of Children Learning to Write in an Urban Primary School (1993) (A study of the social lives and literacy learning of urban school children) |
1993 | Deborah Brandt | Literacy as Involvement: The Acts of Writers, Readers, and Texts (1990) (A redefinition of literacy and literacy development through a process perspective) |
1992 | James Moffett | Storm in the Mountains: A Case Study of Censorship, Conflict, and Consciousness (1998) (A case study of censorship, conflict and consciousness) |
1991 | John S. Mayher | Uncommon Sense: Theoretical Practice in Language Education (1990) (A synthesis of various perspectives of the use and power of language in classrooms) |
1990 | Nancie Atwell | In the Middle: Writing, Reading, and Learning with Adolescents (1998) (Classroom-based research into effective middle school language arts teaching) |
1989 | Mike Rose | Lives on the Boundary: The Struggles and Achievements of America’s Under-prepared (1989) (A study of under preparation in American education) |
1988 | Robert Scholes | Textual Power: Literary, Theory and the Teaching of English (1985) (An analysis of literary criticism as it relates to the teaching of English) |
1987 | Jerome C. Harste, Carolyn Burke, and Virginia Woodward | Language Stories and Literacy Lessons (1984) (A study of preschool children’s literacy learning) |
1986 | Frederic G. Cassidy | Dictionary of American Regional English (1985)(Development of the multi-volume Dictionary of American Regional English) |
1985 | Shirley Brice-Heath | Ways with Words: Language, Life, and Work in Communities and Classrooms (1983) (A study of language patterns in Appalachian towns) |
1984 | Frank Smith | Writing and the Writer (1982) (A synthesis of information on philosophy of language, modern reading and interpretation theory, and cognitive development) |
1983 | Margaret Donaldson | Children’s Minds (1979) (New insights into the stages of children’s intellectual development) |
1982 | Donald Graves | Balance the Basics: Let Them Write (1978) (Studies of writing development in children) |
1981 | Michael A.K. Halliday | Language as a Social Semiotic (1978) (Study of language development in its social settings) |
1980 | Louise Rosenblatt | The Reader, The Text, The Poem: The Transactional Theory of the Literary Work (1978) (Theoretical depiction of the response to literature) |
1979 | Marie M. Clay | Reading: The Patterning of Complex Behavior, What Did I Write? And other titles (1973) (Studies of children’s writing) |
1978 | Mina Shaughnessy | Errors and Expectations: A Guide for the Teacher of Basic Writing (1977) (Error analysis in the writing of college students) |
1977 | James Britton | Language and Learning (1970) (Studies on the development of writing abilities) |
1976 | NONE | NO award given this year |
1975 | Kenneth S. Goodman | (Studies in reading miscue analysis) |
1974 | Roger Brown | A First Language: The Early Stages (1973) (A study of early acquisition of language) |
1973 | Harold B. Allen | Linguistic Atlas of the Upper Midwest (1973) (A study of dialect patterns in the upper Midwest) |
| 1972
| NONE | NO award given this year |
1971
| Carol Chomsky | The Acquisition of Syntax in Children 5 to 10 (Studies on Acquisition of syntax in children from 5 to 10) |
1970
| Albert H. Marckwardt | (Extensive research in English linguistics, characterized by concern for implications and applications to the process of teaching) |
1969 | Raven I. McDavid | (Research in Regional and social dialects) |
1968 | William Labov | (A study of dialects and social stratification) |
| 1967 | Walter Loban | (Twelve-year longitudinal study of children’s language) |
1966 | Wayne C. Booth | (A study of the nature of fiction) |
| 1965 | Ruth G. Strickland | (Studies of children’s oral language) |
1964 | Kellogg W. Hunt | (Studies of the writing of children) |