Methods of research on teaching the English language arts : the methodology chapters from the Handbook of research on teaching the English language arts, second edition / / edited by James Flood ... [et al.]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910810701903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Mahwah, N.J., : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2005
• ISBN: 1-135-60572-6; 1-135-60573-4; 1-282-32614-7; 9786612326141; 1-4106-1208-2
• Edizione: [2nd ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (348 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): FloodJames
• Disciplina: 428.0071
• Soggetti: Language arts; English language - Study and teaching
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "Sponsored by International Reading Association & National Council of Teachers of English."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Understanding research on teaching the English language arts : an introduction for teachers / Sandra Stotsky and Cindy Mall -- Teacher professionalism and the rise of "multiple literacies" : how to describe our specialized knowledge? / Anne DiPardo -- The design of empirical research / Robert C. Calfee and Marilyn Chambliss -- What longitudinal studies say about literacy development/what literacy development says about longitudinal studies / Robert J. Tierney and Margaret Sheehy -- Case studies : placing literacy phenomena within their actual context / June Birnbaum, Janet Emig, and Douglas Fisher -- Ethnography as a logic of inquiry / Judith L. Green, Carol N. Dixon, and Amy Zaharlick -- Teacher researcher projects : from the elementary school teacher's perspective / Fredrick R. Burton and Barbara L. Seidl -- Teacher inquiry into literacy, social justice, and power / Bob Fecho and JoBeth Allen -- Synthesis research in language arts instruction / Carl B. Smith and Susan S. Klein -- Fictive representation : an alternative method for ; reporting research / Donna E. Alvermann and George G. Hruby -- Contemporary methodological issues and future directions in research on the teaching of English / M.C. Wittrock.
• Sommario/riassunto: A concise format of the research methodology section of the ""Handbook of Research on Teaching the English Language Arts"", Second Edition. Designed to give K-12 teachers an understanding of the basic categories and functions of research in teaching, is followed by chapters addressing teacher professionalism and the rise of ""multiple literacies"".