On Literacy and Its Teaching : Issues in English Education.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (309 pages)
- SUNY Series, Literacy, Culture, and Learning: Theory and Practice Series .
- SUNY Series, Literacy, Culture, and Learning: Theory and Practice Series .
Intro -- 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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English language -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- United States. English teachers -- Training of -- United States.