Research in the Teaching of English, Vol. 36, No. 3, February 2002

Table of Contents

• EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION: Whose Who?

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  Keywords: College, Research

• Does Anybody Really Care?: Research and Its Impact on Practice

  Julie E. Wollman-Bonilla

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  Abstract: Reflects on ethical issues that are central to the author's work as an educational researcher. Argues that research ought to be practiced as a form of service that respects teachers and students and enables researchers to grow through a process of reflection.

  Keywords: Elementary, Middle, Secondary, College, Pedagogy, Research, School-Community Relation

• Second Language Students and English Language Issues in the Mainstream Classroom

  N. Eleni Pappamihiel

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  Abstract: Addresses issues of English language anxiety in two settings: English as a second language and mainstream classrooms. Reveals that interaction with Chicano students raised anxiety levels and that such strategies as avoidance were used to reduce anxiety. Concludes with recommendations for teaching and research that recognize the complexity of anxiety for English language learners.

  Keywords: Elementary, Secondary, Administration, Language, Pedagogy, Research

• Looking Across Space and Time: Reconceptualizing Literacy Learning in and out of School

  Katherine Schultz

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  Abstract: Katherine Schultz reports on her longitudinal study of three students' writing practices outside of school and argues for a focus on students' writing practices both in and out of school to develop a more comprehensive understanding of students' capabilities.

  Keywords: Diversity, Literacy, Research, Writing

• Casting and Recasting Gender: Children Constituting Social Identities through Literary Practices

  Diane Downer Anderson

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  Abstract: Considers how gender, identity and literacy are entangled and mutually constitutive. Concludes that social experience, desire, proximate others, and the ways in which children can draw upon these in the classroom are aspects of the situated condition that deserve more prominence in literacy and identity research.

  Keywords: Elementary, Diversity, Literacy, Pedagogy, Research

• Announcing the Alan C. Purves Award Winner (Volume 35)

  Arlette Ingram Willis, Carmen M. Martínez-Roldán, Renee Moore, Debra Schneider, Eileen Simmons

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• GUEST REVIEWERS

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