NCTE Journal Articles

• 2003-2007 Co-Editor of Department of Professional Book Review Column, Language Arts.  
• Townsend, J., and Fu, D. (1999).  A Chinese boy’s joyful initiation into American literacy.  In Trends and Issues in Elementary Language Arts, National Council of Teachers of English, 88-104. (reprint)
• Shelton, N. R. & Fu, D.  A teacher’s way to create space to teach writing and meet the school demands, Language Arts, 82(2), 120-128.
  • This paper describes a  year-long research project that I conducted on how teachers try to maintain their professional autonomy while meeting the mandated demands. The article deals with  a timely issue in American public education. The co-author was the teacher with whom I conducted this research; she later became my doctoral student, and is now a university faculty member.  Read the article here.  (PDF)
• Fu, D. (2004).  Teaching ELLs in regular classrooms at secondary level.  Voice from the Middle, 11(4), 8-15.
• Fu, D & Lamme, L.L (2002).  Assessment through conversations. Language Arts, 79(3), 241-250.
  • This article is based on partial data from  my five-year longitudinal research (1995-2000) on children’s writing development funded by NCTE Research Foundation and UF Arts and Humanity Scholarship Enhancement Fund. This study presents multiple perspectives on  assessment of children’s writing development, which provide a more accurate and holistic evaluation than what pencil/paper traditional assessment can do.  
• Fu, D. & Townsend, J. S.(1999).  Serious learning: language lost. Language Arts, 76(5), 404-414.
  • This article is also based on partial data from my five-year longitudinal research on children’s writing development. This research traces the two-year growth of a group of children as writers from their kindergarten to first grade and contrasts the outcome of the writing instruction in two different settings. This research is named among the most referenced studies on writing instruction (NCTE, 2003).
• Fu, D.(1998).  Unlock their lonely hearts. Voices From the Middle, 6(1), 3-10.
• Townsend, J. S. & Fu, D.(1998).  A Chinese boy’s joyful initiation into American literacy.  Language Arts, 75(3), 193-201.
• Graves, D. & Fu, D.(1997).  The writing lesson. Voices From the Middle, 4(1), 3.
• Fu, D.(1991).  A process classrooms through the eyes of an outsider. Language Arts, 68(2), 121-125.