On Literacy and Its Teaching

Issues in English Education

Häftad, Engelska, 1990

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This book recognizes and embraces the complexities of modern English teaching. It presents English teachers and teacher educators with a critical view of current professional issues and concerns in the belief that these groups need, and want, to participate in curricular and professional reform movements that affect them and their students.The book examines such issues as the interconnectedness of the study of language, literature, and composition; curricular problems in language instruction in teacher education; the relationship between our traditional notions of literature study and our emerging view of literacy in the contemporary information age; and the ways in which current theory and research can be translated into innovative designs for the teaching of written composition.On Literacy and Its Teaching is a powerful response to the current challenge for innovation and change in English teacher education. With its broad scope, it provides a balanced overview and timely analysis of the field of English Education.

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Utgivningsdatum1990-07-05
Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt363 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor259
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9780791402665

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ForewordAlan C. Purves Preface Part I: Teaching as a Profession: Issues and Responsibilities 1. Content Knowledge versus Process Knowledge: A False DichotomyGail E. Hawisher 2. Report from the Eastern Shore: The English Coalition ConferenceCharles B. Harris 3. Secondary School English Teachers: Past, Present, FutureR. Baird Shuman 4. "To Think About What I Think": Inquiry and InvolvementConnie Swartz Zitlow 5. The National Writing Project Staff Development in the Teaching of CompositionMary Louise Gomez 6. Testing Teachers: Current Issues and Their Implications for Evaluating English TeachersMaia Pank Mertz Part II: Textual Relationships and Pedagogy: Literature and Writing 7. Literature and LiteracyRobert E. Probst 8. Exploring the Relationships between Writing and Literary Understanding: A Language and Learning PerspectiveGeorge E. Newell 9. Literature as Writing: Integrating Literature and Writing Instruction through Manuscript StudiesRon Fortune Part III: Rhetoric and Composition: Designs for Integration 10. On Teaching Writing as a Verb Rather than as a Noun: Research on Writing for High School English TeachersMartin Nystrand 11. The Place of Classical Rhetoric in the Contemporary Writing ClassroomSheryl L. Finkle and Edward P. J. Corbett 12. Rhetorical Theory and the Teaching of WritingAndrea A. Lunsford and Cheryl Glenn 13. English Teachers and the Humanization of Computers: Networking Communities of Readers and WritersCynthia L. Selfe Part IV: The Learning of Language: Teachers and Their Students 14. Watching Our Grammar: The English Language for English TeachersDennis Baron 15. The English Teacher and the Non-English-Speaking Student: Facing the Multicultural/Multilingual ChallengeAnna O. Soter About the Contributors Index

"I like this book most for its attempt to link professional concerns, research and theory. It brings us beyond simplistic dichotomies, skills-based approaches to evaluation, testing, teaching, and knowing. All teachers, but particularly pre-service teachers, should be made aware of these complexities." — Susan Hynds, Syracuse University"This is an excellent text. It does not duplicate the things-to-do-for-Monday strand, which we have all too much of, but rather shows that what we know and believe determine what we do. The essays represent the best thinking in English Education. The approach is exactly right." — Thomas McCracken, Youngstown University