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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815467403321

Titolo

On literacy and its teaching : issues in English education / / edited by Gail E. Hawisher & Anna O. Soter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, N.Y., : State University of New York Press, c1990

ISBN

1-4384-0614-2

0-585-09211-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 259 pages) : illustrations

Collana

SUNY series, literacy, culture, and learning

Altri autori (Persone)

HawisherGail E

SoterAnna O. <1946->

Disciplina

428/.0071/273

Soggetti

English language - Study and teaching (Secondary) - United States

English teachers - Training of - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; FOREWORD by Alan C. Purves; PREFACE; PART I: TEACHING AS A PROFESSION: ISSUES AND RESPONSIBILITIES; 1. Content Knowledge versus Process Knowledge: A False Dichotomy by Gail E. Hawisher; 2. Report from the Eastern Shore: The English Coalition Conference by Charles B. Harris; 3. Secondary School English Teachers: Past, Present, Future by R. Baird Shuman; 4. ""To Think A bout What I Think"": Inquiry and Involvement by Connie Swartz Zitlow; 5. The National Writing Project: Staff Development in the Teaching of Composition by Mary Louise Gomez

6. Testing Teachers: Current Issues and Their Implications for Evaluating English Teachers by Maia Pank Mertz; PART II: TEXTUAL RELATIONSHIPS AND PEDAGOGY: LITERATURE AND WRITING; 7. Literature and Literacy by Robert E. Probst; 8. Exploring the Relationships between Writing and Literary Understanding: A Language and Learning Perspective by George E. Newell; 9. Literature as Writing: Integrating Literature and Writing Instruction through Manuscript Studies by Ron 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 Teachers by Martin Nystrand; 11. The Place of Classical Rhetoric in the Contemporary Writing Classroom by



Sheryl L. Finkle and Edward P. J. Corbett; 12. Rhetorical Theory and the Teaching of Writing by Andrea A. Lunsford and Cheryl Glenn; 13. English Teachers and the Humanization of Computers: Networking Communities of Readers and Writers by Cynthia L. Selfe; PART IV: THE LEARNING OF LANGUAGE: TEACHERS AND THEIR STUDENTS

14. Watching Our Grammar: The English Language for English Teachers by Dennis Baron; 15. The English Teacher and the Non-English-Speaking Student: Facing the Multicultural/ Multilingual Challenge by Anna O. Soter; ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX