Research in the Teaching of English, Vol. 33, No. 4, May 1999

Table of Contents

• EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION

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  Keywords: Research, College

• Building a Foundation for Effective Teaching and Learning of English: A Personal Perspective on Thirty Years of Research

  Arthur N. Applebee

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  Abstract: 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, cognitive science, and anthropology.

  Keywords: Research, Elementary, Middle, Secondary, College, Professional Development

• Coach Bombay's Kids Learn to Write: Children's Appropriation oof Media Material for School Literacy

  Anne Haas Dyson

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  Abstract: Examines the "whats" and "hows" of first-grade urban children's appropriation of sports and sports-related media material for participation in unofficial peer worlds and official academic ones. Reveals the potential hybrid nature of even the earliest of children's written texts. Suggests that learning to write involves work of the imagination on the part of children and teachers.

  Keywords: Diversity, Literacy, Pedagogy, Research, Elementary, School-Community Relation, Media Studies / Journalism

• Genre Development and Learning: Children Writing Stories, Science Reports, and Poems

  George Kamberelis

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  Abstract: Explores children's working knowledge of narrative, scientific, and poetic genres. Finds that children had significantly more experience with narrative genres than either scientific or poetic genres; and possessed more knowledge of text structure than micro-level features such as cohesion markers. Contributes to theorizing genre learning as a complex, contingent, and emergent process of differentiation and integration.

  Keywords: Literacy, Literature, Pedagogy, Writing, Reading, Elementary

• Annotated Bibliography of Research in the Teaching of English

  Deborah Brown, Wayne Martino, Gert Rijlaarsdam, Anne D'Antonio Stinson, Melissa E. Whiting

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  Abstract: Presents a 43-item selected annotated bibliography of recent research in the teaching of English published, generally, between July through December, 1998. Divides entries into sections on assessment; bilingual/foreign-language education; media, society, and literacy; reading; research methodology; teaching and learning of literature; technology and literacy; and writing.

  Keywords: Research, Reading, Elementary, Middle, Secondary, College

• GUEST REVIEWERS

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• Author Index

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• Subject Index

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