Research in the Teaching of English, Vol. 41, No. 3, February 2007

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• EDITORS' INTRODUCTION: The Joy of Study

  Anne DiPardo and Melanie Sperling

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  Abstract: This issue of Research in the Teaching of English offers an array of perspectives that, like the discipline of English language arts itself, hit some recurrent notes but tend toward a kind of choral complexity.

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• Announcing the Alan C. Purves Award Winner (Volume 40)

  Karen Bonnick, Eddi Christensen, Griselle M. Diaz Gemmati (Chair), Curt Dudley-Marling, and Roxanne Henkin (2006 Alan C. Purves Award Committee)

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  Abstract: The 2006 Alan C. Purves Award Committee is pleased to announce this year’s recipients—Sarah Warshauer Freedman, Verda Delp, and Suzanne Mills Crawford, for “Teaching English in Untracked Classrooms” (which appeared in the August, 2005 issue of Research in the Teaching of English, pp. 62-126). Here, the committee discusses the implications of this work for guiding important reforms in educational practice.

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• Conceptualizing a Whole-Class Learning Space: A Grand Dialogic Zone

  Sarah Warshauer Freedman and Verda K. Delp

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  Abstract: The two lead recipients of this year’s Purves Award reflect on their work on “Teaching English in Untracked Classrooms” (2005) and look to the conceptual horizons of their ongoing work.

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• A Cognitive Strategies Approach to Reading and Writing Instruction for English Language Learners in Secondary School

  Carol Booth Olson and Robert Land

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  Abstract: This study was conducted by members of a site of the California Writing Project in partnership with a large, urban, low-SES school district where 93% of the students speak English as a second language and 69% are designated Limited English Proficient.

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• Peer Review Re-Viewed: Investigating the Juxtaposition of Composition Students' Eye Movements and Peer-Review Processes

  Eric J. Paulson, Jonathan Alexander, and Sonya Armstrong

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  Abstract: While peer review is a common practice in college composition courses, there is little consistency in approach and effectiveness within the field, owing in part to the dearth of empirical research that investigates peer-review processes. This study is designed to shed light on what a peer reviewer actually reads and attends to while providing peer-review feedback.

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• 2006 NCTE PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: The Caterpillar Question

  Kyoko Sato

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  Abstract: This article is the text of Kyoko Sato’s presidential address, delivered at the NCTE Annual Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, in November 2006.

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• AT LAST: Bakhtin and the Teaching of Literature

  Gary Saul Morson

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• GUEST REVIEWERS

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