Research in the Teaching of English, Vol. 35, No. 1, August 2000

Table of Contents

• EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION: Is There a Text in This Study?

  Peter Smagorinsky and Michael W. Smith

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  Keywords: College, Research

• Reconstructing Familiar Metaphors: John Dewey and Louise Rosenblatt on Literary Art as Experience

  Mark Faust

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  Abstract: Problematizes the word "experience" as it is currently being used by researchers and teachers who want to reform literature instruction in schools and colleges. Discusses how a fresh look at Dewey and Rosenblatt can reconstruct the courtroom and marketplace metaphors as sound alternatives to theories that perpetuate dualistic assumptions about literary experience.

  Keywords: College, Literature, Research, Reading

• Teaching Science Writing to First Graders: Genre Learning and Recontextualization

  Julie E. Wollman-Bonilla

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  Abstract: Examines four first-graders' messages to family members in their "family message journals," as students were learning to "do science." Finds that they consistently composed texts in which they appropriated the linguistic conventions of science and that they seemed able to use these conventions flexibly, recontextualizing the genres to fit the task of a written dialogue with their families.

  Keywords: Elementary, Literacy, Research, Writing

• Opposition and Accommodation: An Examination of Turkish Teachers' Attitudes toward Western Approaches to the Teaching of Writing

  Arlene Clachar

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  Abstract: Investigates cross-cultural tensions in Western writing pedagogy as reflected in Turkish teachers' oppositional and accommodative attitudes and how those attitudes played out in classroom interactions. Discusses teachers' perceptions concerning the effects of Western rhetorical styles on Turkish students' thinking and identity, assumptions regarding philosophical and instructional objectives of Western approaches, and their views on what counts as good writing.

• Code-Switching during Shared and Independent Reading: Lessons Learned from a Preschooler

  Eurydice Bouchereau Bauer

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  Abstract: Examines the code-switching patterns of a bilingual preschooler involved in English and German shared reading and independent reading. Finds that melodic text reduced code-switching; her view of the task influenced her code-switching; and her code-switching patterns during discussions were similar to talk outside the literacy event. Suggests qualitatively different benefits of highly predictable and literary texts for literacy/language development.

  Keywords: Elementary, Language, Literacy, Research

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