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Taking the G-r-r-r Out of Grammar
Authors: Tchudi Stephen , Thomas Lee
Published: March 2024

Grammar is a grizzly topic for students and teachers alike. Stephen Tchudi’s and Lee Thomas’ article “Taking the G-r-r-r Out of Grammar” gives some pointers on helpful (and painless) ways of teaching grammar as descriptive rather than prescriptive. Traditional and transformational grammar are discussed along with how grammar might be applied to literature, dialects, second language learners.
The Role of Generalization in Studying Grammar and Usage
Authors: Gribbin Bill
Published: March 2024

In “The Role of Generalization in Studying Grammar and Usage,” Bill Gribbin provides a conceptual framework to guide teachers “explorations into language with their students.” He focuses on the differences between the unconscious knowledge of language all speakers possess, the conscious knowledge of language that the teaching of grammar is supposed to provide, and “linguistic etiquette,” which is more aptly called usage, and how our students can be happily engaged in noticing and recording these differences as a way to learn grammar.
Never Say Never: Teaching Grammar and Usage
Authors: Brodie Peter
Published: March 2024

The author provides a whimsical look at issues of language right and wrong.
Watch Your Language: Teaching Standard Usage to Resistant and Reluctant Learners
Authors: Larson Mark
Published: March 2024

“Watch Your Language: Teaching Standard Usage to Resistant and Reluctant Learners” by Mark Larson talks about the real issues in trying to teach Standard American English to resistant and reluctant learners and suggests ways to gently tackle the “hurdles” of this task.
The Great Debate: Teaching Grammar and Usage
Authors: Rose Carol A.
Published: March 2024

A Business English teacher discusses how she teaches grammar and usage.
Grammar in a Nutshell
Authors: Purser Diana
Published: March 2024

Diana Purser’s “Grammar in a Nutshell” is not only all-you-need-to-know about grammar in one chart but also a collection of activities for teaching grammar as part of the editing process in writing.
Young Adult Literature: Interdisciplinary Virginia Hamilton
Authors: Mikkelsen Nina , Kaywell Joan
Published: March 2024

Weaves descriptions of 16 novels by Virginia Hamilton into an account of young adult literature that can be used to make effective connections across the disciplines.
Authentic Assessment in the Literature Classroom
Authors: Walker Michelle
Published: March 2024

Authentic Assessment in the Literature Classroom
The NCTE/IRA Standards: A Surrender
Authors: Zorn Jeff
Published: March 2024

Suggests that the “Standards for the English Language Arts” (copublished by the National Council of Teachers of English and the International Reading Association) makes good sense about literature and almost none at all about literacy. Argues that for 99% of the school population, the de-emphasis of the “Standards” on formal written communication is “entirely misguided.”
Censorship, Anti-Semitism, and The Merchant of Venice
Authors: Wilson Robert J.
Published: March 2024

Examines some of the issues surrounding a school district’s decision to remove Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice from the list of books in the high school English curriculum.
What Happens When a High School Censors
Authors: Kochman Susan M.
Published: March 2024

Recounts events surrounding a superintendent’s decision to confiscate an anthology from a senior English literature course because of a few words in one of the poems.
Young Adult Literature in the Classroom—Or Is It?
Authors: Bushman John H.
Published: March 2024

Questions the use of classic literature in the lower secondary school grades and reports on a survey of reading experience and habits, both in and outside of school, among 380 students in grades 6-12. Suggests that young adult literature can do what schools have not--turn adolescents into avid readers.
Beyond Voices of Readers: Students on School’s Effects on Reading
Authors: Cope Jim
Published: March 2024

This article summarizes and explicates research on 272 twelfth-grade students’ reading autobiographies. Cope quotes from some noteworthy comments and makes some suggestions on how teachers and schools might do a better job of teaching literature.
If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It: School Reform in the English Classroom
Authors: Young Ellen A. Seay
Published: March 2024

Questions three trends in school reform: special considerations, leveling, and scheduling. Notes that, despite all these changes, the author has not seen any great improvements. Argues that using teachers’ ideas, acknowledging social and behavioral issues, and resisting parental pressure are what is needed to help the American education system make a comeback.
Connecting the Visual and Verbal: English and Art for High School Sophomores
Authors: Murata Roberta
Published: March 2024

Describes how an English teacher and an art teacher collaborated to create a combined curriculum based on interdisciplinary projects for sophomore students at their high school. Describes planning the course and using a theme; gives some examples demonstrating how ideas about interdisciplinarity became realities in classroom practice; and discusses why this interdisciplinary teaching was so effective.
Interdisciplinary English Means English First
Authors: Noskin David P.
Published: March 2024

Describes a high school English teacher’s first year collaborating with math, science, and history teachers in a connecting-the-curriculum program. Describes how the author’s first semester of teaching English within this interdisciplinary framework lacked coherence and was not successful and how his students helped make the second semester more coherent.
Reader Response Makes History
Authors: Shafer Gregory
Published: March 2024

Describes an interdisciplinary unit that brought the Civil War to life for 11th-grade students in a team-taught unit that highlighted student-driven response to reading. Describes use of a 19th-century essay supporting slavery, Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle,” “Huckleberry Finn,” Civil War poetry and other writings, and student projects based on the autobiography of Frederick Douglass.
Interdisciplinary Teaching? It Only Takes Talent, Time, and Treasure
Authors: Gardner Susan A , Southerland Sherry A
Published: March 2024

Describes a college-level introductory integrated science course for non-science majors, called “The Natural World: Explorations in Science,” that was laboratory-based, exploratory, and writing intensive, and that was team taught by four teachers from different fields. Discusses elements that make such interdisciplinary teaching possible and the benefits of such teaching.
What Contemporary Authors Can Teach Us
Authors: Isreal Elfie
Published: March 2024

Discusses the value of contemporary literature and of teaching it, and notes related censorship issues. Describes how the work of contemporary authors Michael Dorris and Tim O’Brien teaches students about values, helping them reflect upon ancient questions regarding truth and reality.
Teenagers Evaluating Modern Media
Authors: Brooks James
Published: March 2024

Presents a process to prepare 10th-grade students to generate clear and thoughtful critiques of work in six nonprint media categories; movies, television shows, audio recordings, music videos, live performances, and computer programs. Provides detailed questions for student analysis of each.
Teaching Television to Empower Students
Authors: Owen David B. , Silet Charles L.P. , Brown Sarah E.
Published: March 2024

Argues that educators should train themselves and students to understand and cope with television’s power. Describes an inventory of viewing and reading habits, then discusses how three principles of teaching television are expressed in class activities. Outlines a unit that takes students from television as “just entertainment” to active, critical viewing. Makes three suggestions for teaching television.
Rainbow Teachers/Rainbow Students: “What’s That You Say?”: Language and Race in Classroom Practice
Authors: Johnson Joanna
Published: March 2024

Describe a situation between a teacher and a junior high school student in which the student was given detention for “talking back.” Argues that this disciplinary episode was unnecessary had the teacher been better prepared to talk effectively to students and for work with diverse student populations.
Global Issues: Teaching English in Lithuania
Authors: Slayton Paul
Published: March 2024

Describes the author’s summer spent in Lithuania helping Lithuanian teachers tackle real problems of teachers of English in Lithuanian schools. Discusses the needs of teachers in Lithuania, and mentions three ways that readers can be of assistance to Lithuanian English instruction personally, materially, or financially.
The Bible: Why We Need to Teach It; How Some Do
Authors: Wachlin Marie Goughnour
Published: March 2024

Argues that the Bible is a classic in a class by itself, and discusses why secondary students need to study it. Notes legal interpretations that guide Bible teachers and students. Describes how secondary English teachers are successfully teaching the Bible in several schools across the country, and discusses literary allusions, bible versions, teaching materials, and cross-cultural study.
From the Secondary Section: The Proposal Submission/Selection Process for National Conventions
Authors: Lott Carolyn
Published: March 2024

Explains the process that the Secondary Section planning group uses to select proposals for sessions that will be presented at NCTE’s national conference. Answers the following questions: What Can You Do to Make Your Proposal Better? Who Is Involved in the Selection Process? How Does the Selection Process Operate? How Can Anyone Participate?
Essay: First Place: The Kids on the Train, the Kids on the Bus
Authors: Zorn Jeff
Published: March 2024

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Essay: Third Place: A Letter to Hong’s Father
Authors: Petruzzella Brenda Arnett
Published: March 2024

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Essay: Honorable Mention: Foregone Conclusions
Authors: Herring Sue Ellen
Published: March 2024

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Photography: Second Place: Flea Market Man
Authors: Lynn King Amy
Published: March 2024

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Software: Super Sites for Teachers of English
Authors: Byrne John J.
Published: March 2024

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Poetry: Fourth Place: Cameo
Authors: Ezell-Schmitz Doris A.
Published: March 2024

Available in print version only.
Bad Boys, Bad Girls, Whatcha Gonna Do! Teenage Outlaws Create Curriculum
Authors: Steffen Beth O.
Published: March 2024

Describes a student-conceived, student-executed class research project carried out in a high school English class in which students investigated the issue of teenagers and the law. Notes the enthusiastic work contributed by students otherwise largely hostile to school, some of whom skipped all of their classes except English that term.
From the Secondary Section: “But I’m Not a Reading Teacher”: The Lament of the Middle and High School Teacher
Authors: Delfino Charleen Silva
Published: March 2024

Discusses the dilemmas faced by middle and high school teachers whose students are struggling to read, yet whose training does not prepare them to solve this problem. Describes the Reading Initiative, a program that will support teacher development through study groups to help teachers improve both the teaching and learning of reading through ongoing, intensive, systematic professional development.
“Headed into More and More Important Things”: Transforming a World Literature Curriculum
Authors: Newel George E. , Sweet Marcia
Published: March 2024

Describes how the curriculum of a tenth-grade world literature class, with an emphasis on literary genres, was transformed to a curriculum concerned with ethical choices and their consequences within an array of individual and social contexts. Shows how this conversation about ethical choices and dilemmas in her students’ lives transformed how the author taught literature and writing.
“It’s a Lot of Hectic in Middle School”: Student-Teaching in an Urban Classroom
Authors: Meyer Jim
Published: March 2024

Relates the experience of a college professor who spent two months as a student teacher in an eighth-grade language arts classroom in an urban public school. Discusses middle school teaching verses college teaching, coming to know the students, discipline, student testing, accountability, teaching writing, the failure of teacher-training programs, and teacher testing.
Notes from a Guerrilla
Authors: Bridgers Sue Ellen
Published: March 2024

Talks about how the author came to be a feminist and a writer. Discusses the domestic settings within which she grew up, her writing processes, how her interests and concerns influence her writing, why she chooses to give women priority in her writing world, and the importance of bearing witness to the world with one’s own story.
Patterns in American Literature
Authors: Abair Jacqueline M. , Cross Alice
Published: March 2024

Describes a high school elective English course that matches books of American Literature, at least one classic and one contemporary, so that students can begin to see the patterns. Discusses some of these pairings, such as Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter” with Toni Morrison’s “Beloved” and B. Mukherjee’s “The Holder of the World.”
Young Adult Literature: Atticus, David, and Raymond: Role Models for YA Males
Authors: Crowe Chris
Published: March 2024

Expresses a wish that more young adult novels would include strong fathers in their storylines, arguing that this might help boys be more thoughtful about their fathers and about the role and important attributes of fatherhood. Offers examples of such figures in several young adult books. Also offers brief descriptions of 11 new or overlooked young adult books worth reading.
Re-envisioning Research
Authors: Shafer Gregory
Published: March 2024

Describes a research paper in the author’s high school English classroom which connected to the lives and interests of students, who delved into community problems with as much rigor (and using many types of research as traditional essays exploring arcane philosophical questions). Describes creating a context for exploration, and students’ final projects.
Circling through Text: Teaching Research through Multigenre Writing
Authors: Grierson Sirpa T.
Published: March 2024

Describes how the author incorporated her requirements for a term research paper into multigenre writing. Discusses what multigenre is, how it can be taught and assessed, and what makes it such a rich, workable alternative to the traditional research assignment.
Making Connections: Hypertext and Research in a Middle School Classroom
Authors: Patterson Nancy G.
Published: March 2024

Describes how students in an 8th-grade rural English classroom were focused and engaged over a 9-week period as they investigated and researched a poem of their own choice by a Native American poet, and wrote a hypertext web of their research journey. Notes that students experienced text in a new way, as a network of links.
From the Secondary Section: The Making of a Teacher
Authors: Allender Dale
Published: March 2024

Describes teachers who made a difference in the author’s literacy development and who fostered his love of learning and teaching. Discusses the importance of teachers growing as professionals. Describes various opportunities through the National Council of Teachers (NCTE) of English for teachers to share the good work that they do. Notes NCTE’s “TEACH 2000” initiative for first-year English language arts teachers.
Reading, Living, and Loving “Lord of the Flies”
Authors: Sunderman Wendy L.
Published: March 2024

Describes a unit plan for teaching “Lord of the Flies” that allows students to respond freely to the reading and to “get out of their seats” and experience the first chapter of the book. Includes guidelines for the response-based approach, for discussion groups, and for character portfolios.
Huck Finn: Born to Trouble
Authors: Schulten Katherine
Published: March 2024

Describes the process by which Cherry Hill, New Jersey teachers, in cooperation with parents, administrators, and other professionals, developed a curriculum for teaching “Huckleberry Finn” that successfully explores the controversial issues by embedding traditional teaching in a rich, historical, and cultural framework. Provides the “Huck Finn in Context” curriculum.
A Message from the Old World to the New: Teaching Classic Fiction through Drama
Authors: Baxter Judith
Published: March 2024

Claims Reader Response theories form the basis for helping students to enjoy reading and studying the classics. Discusses: (1) asking students to “step into” and explore the world of the text; and (2) helping students “step out” of the world of the text to consider it analytically. Presents drama activities to help students connect to the classics.
English Education in the 1970s: An Editor’s Perspective
Authors: Tchudi Stephen
Published: March 2024

Offers the author’s perspective on English education in the 1970s using articles published in “English Journal” while he was editor from 1973 to 1980.
Gender Benders: Men and Women Navigating the Freeway to Equity
Authors: Nilsen Alleen Pace
Published: March 2024

Focuses on the changing relationships between males and females in the National Council of Teachers of English from its inception to the present. Discusses changing relationships between the sexes in English departments, including graduate students and faculty. Describes differing approaches to the job of teaching, and recommends in general giving the matter some serious thought and discussion.
Oh, Those Golden Teaching Days of Yore
Authors: Donelson Ken
Published: March 2024

Offers quotes from articles about English teaching in the United States published in professional journals from 1847 to 1955. Suggests there never was a “golden age” of English teaching. Shows discussion and controversy about teaching writing, about what literature should be allowed in the schools, whether teaching grammar is worthwhile, and whether the English curriculum was going to hell.
Young Adult Literature: Starting With Dora V.: A Genealogy of YA Literature Specialists
Authors: Crowe Chris
Published: March 2024

Traces the genealogy of the people who established, refined, defended, and maintained the study of literature for adolescents, including the pioneering contributions of Dora V. Smith starting in the 1930s. Contains 10 references to articles that look back on YA literature and its pioneers; and annotations of 10 new or overlooked YA books worth reading.
A Place for Every Student
Authors: Jonsberg Sara Dalmas
Published: March 2024

Sara Dalmas Jonsberg talks about how we can “teach peace with any text” beginning now.
Warriors with Words: Toward a Post-Columbine Writing Curriculum
Authors: Nelson G. Lynn
Published: March 2024

Argues that teachers of writing can readily become forces for peace in our schools and, by extension, in society at large. Argues that returning to personal story at the center of the writing curriculum, accompanied by deep listening, will promote peace and well-being, voice and sense of self, and respect and caring as well as powerful literacy in English classrooms.
Giving Peace a Chance: Gandhi and King in the English Classroom
Authors: Gill David
Published: March 2024

Describes how one high school English teacher developed and taught a unit that would give students the opportunity to see how violence and nonviolence affects their lives. Notes the unit involves discussing the lives and careers of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr., viewing film clips and film, reading, writing in journals, and writing a bill of rights for students.
The Silent Classroom
Authors: Wrye Marion
Published: March 2024

Argues that, under the weight of the culture of materialism, superficiality, and rampant consumerism fueled by sex, drugs, and violence, it is difficult yet critically important for individuals to carve out a space for the pleasures of concentration, and for finding an internal anchor. Describes how a teacher has used silence in support of these goals.
Teaching Empathy through Ecphrastic Poetry: Entering a Curriculum of Peace
Authors: Gorrell Nancy
Published: March 2024

Argues that any curriculum of peace must have at its core the teaching (not preaching) of empathy. Recommends ecphrastic poetry (poetic response to works of art) as a teaching tool for empathy, and discusses how the author uses one particular poem written in response to a World War II photograph to stimulate student writing response and discussion. This article available in print issue only.
A Grand Tradition of Struggle
Authors: West Cornel
Published: March 2024

Offers an “inspirational speech” delivered by Harvard professor Cornel West at the 1994 National Council of Teachers of English convention. Discusses ways in which English teachers can help to keep alive the tradition of struggle for decency, dignity, freedom, and democracy. Shares his belief in the significant role English teachers play in reinvigorating the democratic tradition in the United States.
Nurturing Reflective Judgment through Literature-Based Inquiry
Authors: Friedman Audrey A.
Published: March 2024

Argues that literature provides a vehicle for inquiry-based teaching that can encourage reflective thinking and help students to learn to make informed decisions by carefully thinking through ill-structured, realistic dilemmas that have no right or wrong answer. Describes strategies that promote carefully structured investigation of such dilemmas, and offers a dilemma worksheet based on Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men.”
Teaching Writing in the High School: Fifteen Years in the Making
Authors: Noskin David Peter
Published: March 2024

David Peter Noskin shares his methods for teaching writing, particularly how he’s adapted the writing process to his teaching in high school.
Muddying Boundaries: Mixing Genres with Five Paragraphs
Authors: Dean Deborah M.
Published: March 2024

Argues that, after students are familiar with the characteristics of the five paragraph essay and the expectations of that genre, they can learn to play with those expectations to create lively writing that reveals more individual voice by mixing in other genres. Argues that such a strategy can teach students to engage in academic writing more personally and inventively.
Engaging the Disaffected: Collaborative Writing Across the Curriculum Projects
Authors: Zimmet Nancy
Published: March 2024

Describes how 20 high school teachers and university professors collaborated to initiate writing projects across the high school curriculum. Notes that the group learned the most about how to develop their collaborative cross-curricular writing program from projects in earth science and chemistry. Suggests that teaching students how to help one another was integral to the program’s success.
The Technophobe Seeks Common Denominators
Authors: Tchudi Stephen
Published: March 2024

Argues that, as educators embrace new technology, it is important to look at the tradeoffs. Proposes and discusses five “common denominators” that cut across media and communications technologies, past and future. Offers generalizations about common elements in all language that permit analysis and critique of the new media and help students develop a critical attitude toward media technologies and languages.
Literacy Leaps as Blind Students Embrace Technology
Authors: Hartz Deborah
Published: March 2024

Reports on technology used by the author’s high school blind and low vision students at the Arizona School for the Blind. Notes common difficulties blind readers have getting access to books and materials, and relates her early efforts to build a classroom library. Discusses note takers for less proficient Braille readers. Outlines the Braille versus technology debate.
Mad as Hell
Authors: Shannon Patrick
Published: March 2024

Has NCTE been led down the standards yellow brick road? Pat Shannon thinks so.
Developing Metacommunicative Awareness in Children with Language Difficulties: Challenging the Typical Pull-Out System
Authors: Falk-Ross Francine
Published: March 2024

The child, the classroom teacher, and the language specialist work together in the context of the classroom to help children with significant language difficulties.
The Game
Authors: Pepoli Carol A.
Published: March 2024

Poetry by Carol A. Pepoli.
Materials That Make the Mark Integrating Technology in the Classroom
Authors: McMillen Linda , Shanahan Sherrell , Dowd Kathleen , Macphee Joyce , Hester Jennifer
Published: March 2024

Offers reviews of resource materials, software, and websites intended to help teachers make sense of integrating technology in the classroom. Presents reviews of five resource books; four instructional software programs that purport to teach phonics; three software programs of interactive literature on CD-ROM; an interactive, multimedia CD-ROM program for assessing reading comprehension; and three language arts web sites.
Bookalogues: Talking About Childern’s Books
Authors: Martinez Miriam , Nash Marcia F.
Published: March 2024

Presents brief annotations of 28 highly recommended children’s picture books.
America Reads: Doing Battle
Authors: Edmondson Jacqueline
Published: March 2024

Critiques “America Reads,” a federal initiative (launched by President Clinton in 1996) to foster universal literacy by sending a million tutors into schools. Argues that the program fails to take into account much of what is known about best practices in literacy instruction, and that inexperienced or poorly trained tutors may present more problems than solutions.
Examining Teacher Talk: Revealing Hidden Boundaries for Curricular Change
Authors: Rowe Deborah Wells
Published: March 2024

Considers how curricular self-analysis of patterns of classroom talk provides teachers with an important opportunity to consciously consider the ways their talk works to define the nature of literacy events, students’ roles, and the literacy strategies children come to use and value.
Toward the Separation of School and State
Authors: Blau Sheridan
Published: March 2024

Issues a call to action to teachers of the English/language arts. Discusses the current scene in the politics of education, the professional debate versus the political debate, collegial responsibility, and how to respond to current political outrages. Argues that the profession must lobby for the right of teachers to practice their profession without the interference of noneducators.
Modernism, Postmodernism, and Post-structuralism and Their Impact on Literacy
Authors: Meacham Shuaib J. , Buendia Edward
Published: March 2024

Presents an accessible overview of modernism, postmodernism, and post-structuralism. Describes their characteristics, identifies how conceptions of literacy have changed as an outcome of post-structural and postmodern influences, and describes what literacy instruction looks like within each movement.
Sketching a Self-Portrait of Skills Instruction: Classroom Research and Accountability
Authors: Hinchey Patricia H. , Adonizio Sally , DeMarco Nan , Fetchina Kyra
Published: March 2024

Patricia H. Hinchey, Sally Adonizio, Nan DeMarco, and Kyra Fetchina The authors discuss their research collaboration as a means of documenting teaching and learning in “wholistic” classrooms.
Teachers as Researchers: Making Sense of Teaching and Learning
Authors: Waters Rebecca
Published: March 2024

Waters shares her systematic observations and reflections on students’ learning in her first-grade classroom as a means of opening a conversation about what counts as teacher research.
Direct, Explicit, and Systematic--Bad Reading Science
Authors: Coles Gerald
Published: March 2024

Looks at how “scientifically based” literacy research promoting the direct, explicit, and systematic use of phonics and related word skills in beginning reading instruction is having a massive effect on policy and practice. Examines what this research claims to have found and what it actually shows. Discusses how it harms research, teaching, learning, and children.
Lisa and Her Mom: Finding Success in Reading the World
Authors: McClain Veda Pendleton
Published: March 2024

Presents a case study of the “Coleman family” to examine support for literacy within an economically disadvantaged family, in which the child learned to value literacy and learned how to read very well despite the limited literacy abilities of the mother. Discusses ways teachers might help parents to support literacy growth at home and at school.
Reconciling Communicative Approaches to the Teaching of English with Traditional Chinese Methods
Authors: Rao Zhenhui
Published: March 2024

Chinese students experience many difficulties in developing communicative competence in English in their English as a Foreign Language (EFL) courses in China. This essay provides cultural information that may be useful for researchers and American EFL teachers of Chinese-born students, in Chinese or American universities. It first reviews the pedagogical approaches used by native Chinese-speaking teachers of English in an educational environment grounded in Confucian precepts for teaching, learning, and educational roles and responsibilities. It suggests that many of the limitations on Chinese students’ learning of English stem from a traditional teacher-centeredc lassroom and the use of rote-memorys trategies. After noting the obstacles faced by Chinese EFL teachers who have tried to implement communicative approaches, this essay offers guidelines for reconciling a communicative approach with traditional Chinese methods
Students’ Reactions to Teacher Comments: An Exploratory Study
Authors: Straub Richard
Published: March 2024

Current scholarship indicates that most writing students read and make use of teachers’ written comments on their drafts and find some types of comments more helpful than others. But the research is unclear about which comments students find most useful and why. This article presents the results of a survey of 142 first- year college writing students’ perceptions about teacher comments on a writing sample. A 40-item questionnaire was used to investigate students’ reactions to three variables of teacher response: focus, specificity, and mode. The survey found that these college students seemed equally interested in getting responses on global matters of content, purpose, and organization as on local matters of sentence structure, wording, and correctness, but were wary of negative comments about ideas they had already expressed in their text. It also found that these students favored detailed commentary with specific and elaborated comments, but they did not like comments that sought to control their writing or that failed to provide helpful criticism for improving the writing. They most preferred comments that provided employed open questions, or included explanations that guided revision.
Teaching Science Writing to First Graders: Genre Learning and Recontextualization
Authors: Wollman-Bonilla Julie E.
Published: March 2024

Examines four first-graders’ messages to family members in their “family message journals,” as students were learning to “do science.” Finds that they consistently composed texts in which they appropriated the linguistic conventions of science and that they seemed able to use these conventions flexibly, recontextualizing the genres to fit the task of a written dialogue with their families.
Gender Issues in College Composition
Authors: DeRuiter Carol
Published: March 2024

Instructors should learn both to celebrate and to accommodate gender differences in the writing classroom.
The Literacy Narrative as Production Pedagogy in the Composition Classroom
Authors: Blake Scott J
Published: March 2024

J. Blake Scott describes a method and outlines the procedures, including a heuristic, for having students write literacy narratives about their history as writers. Scott argues that writing and sharing these narratives brings the students closer into community with one another and helps them produce better writing.
Community Colleges Train the Professoriate of the Future
Authors: Elder Dana C. , Payne Darin , Lauderbaugh Stan , West Bryan , Wilbanks Janet
Published: March 2024

Describes how a cooperative program between a community college (Spokane Falls) and a university (Eastern Washington) produced a successful teaching internship. Finds that, besides the ways in which interns learn from the experience, working with interns can benefit community college educators and offer them an opportunity for self-assessment and for introspection concerning their own planning and teaching.
The Patterns of Language: Perspective on Teaching Writing
Authors: Dykstra Pamela D.
Published: March 2024

Considers why basic writers write in "phrases patched upon phrases." Examines how language is patterned and acquired to clarify a framework for teaching basic writers. States that speaking and writing, two different ways of organizing and presenting information, have different structures. Explores what cognitive psychology can say about how the mind processes and produces language.
Portfolios in Literature Courses: A Case Study
Authors: Sommers Jeff
Published: March 2024

Asks if there is a place for portfolio assessment in the literature classroom. Finds that portfolios help students use writing to engage literary texts in multiple and productive ways, and offer opportunities to examine effects of the reading process over the course of the writing pieces. Argues for a particular kind of portfolio focusing on a single literary work.
Reading Against the Current
Authors: Birkerts Sven
Published: March 2024

Argues for a deep, deliberate kind of reading on a serious level of engagement. Finds that today’s fast paced world makes this difficult.
Theory as Healing
Authors: Tinberg Howard
Published: March 2024

Sees a tendency, in the field of composition, to privilege either theory or classroom practice. Discusses theory as liberatory narrative. Draws on Michael Dorris, bell hooks, and Paulo Freire to show how the act of theorizing becomes an act of compassion and of healing. Describes how literacy narratives from the two-year college classroom demonstrate this point.
Views from the Underside: Proficiency Portfolios in First-Year Composition
Authors: Nelson Alexis
Published: March 2024

Shares freshman-composition students’ stories about portfolio assessment (interviewing students at length three times during the semester), to examine ways students understand portfolios, how portfolios work, and why sometimes they do not. Suggests concerns relevant to implementing department-wide competency portfolios. Argues that community colleges may be better situated than large universities to reap the benefits of portfolios.
Instructional Note: Up Close and Personal: A Real-World Audience Awareness Assignment
Authors: Ellis Shelley M.
Published: March 2024

Describes an assignment for a sophomore-level technical-writing course which teaches students to respond to different audiences with different needs by having them analyze and then respond to actual complaint letters (on the same topic but from two very different people). Includes successful and unsuccessful responses generated by the students.
Print, Film, and Hypertexts: A Multimedia Model for Discipline-Based ESL Instruction
Authors: Kasper Loretta F.
Published: March 2024

Describes an instructional model that develops English-as-a-Second-Language students’ linguistic and academic skills through extended study of discipline-based content presented through multimedia. Illustrates the approach via a sample lesson from a unit on environmental science. Discusses the use of focus-discipline groups that research class topics. Notes positive student achievement and feedback.
The l990s: A Decade Forefronting Two-Year College English
Authors: Pickett Nell Ann
Published: March 2024

Reflects on making “Teaching English in the Two-Year College” a viable journal. Discusses formation of the Two-Year College Organization, and its formal recognition by the Conference on College Composition and Communication in 1997.
Too Many Other Enticing “Texts”: On Why I Didn’t Read Last Night
Authors: Daughdrill Josh
Published: March 2024

Argues that composition teachers, rather than dismiss their students’ consumption of popular culture, should juxtapose popular culture with scholarly interpretations of popular culture and with traditional texts to draw students in and encourage analysis, interpretation and reevaluation of their assumptions.
In Praise of Reader-Response: Validating Student Voices in the Literature Classroom
Authors: Boyle Priscilla K.
Published: March 2024

Describes a modified method of reader-response used as a core activity in a literature classroom in which students write a short written response at the beginning of every class to the reading due that day. Describes the procedure, its relationship to effective writing, and its benefits, including reading more critically, writing more effectively, and enjoying books more
When Computers Come to English Class
Authors: Wilson Smokey
Published: March 2024

Examines how a shift to an online writing course affected underprepared students. Finds the guided writing environment enhanced instruction and improved student retention and pass rates.
Sentence Focus, Cohesion, and the Active and Passive Voice
Authors: Robinson William S.
Published: March 2024

Outlines three criteria that justify using passive voice. Claims teaching sentence focus--keeping the topic of the sentence in the subject position--will accomplish the end of teaching the appropriate uses of active and passive voice.
The Writing Lesson (For Danling Fu)
Authors: Graves Don , Fu Danling
Published: March 2024

Although Graves’ poem, The Writing Lesson, expresses feelings we’ve all experienced when learning new tasks, Danling Fu provides context by describing how Chinese children learn to write calligraphy.
Salamanca Hiddle Is Alive and Well: Developing a Palette for Poetry
Authors: Davis Andrea
Published: March 2024

Describes how one eighth-grade teacher, disturbed by students’ ignorance of the variety of poetry available to them, developed a poetry anthology assignment, in which students immersed themselves in poetry for three weeks, each one choosing and creating a poetry anthology comprised of 20 poems. Notes students’ enthusiasm for the project and pride in its results.
Professional Voices/Classroom Portrai: Where There’s a Will, There’s a Playt
Authors: Carlson Susan , Messier Ann
Published: March 2024

Describes a popular yearly activity at one middle school in which a production of a Shakespearean comedy becomes the centerpiece of an interdisciplinary unit on the Elizabethan Period involving language arts, social studies, math, science, music, art, technical education, home economics, and the learning center.
Doing Poetry
Authors: Anderson Anne P.
Published: March 2024

Describes how an eighth-grade language-arts teacher teaches poetry via performance. Describes how she introduces poetry, performance, and audience. Shows how students (even non-readers and non-achievers) quickly show great eagerness to do poetry with enthusiasm, excitement, and energy; and now perform locally. Includes a poetry portfolio outline and a list of suggested performance poems.
Her Place (poem)
Authors: Martin Terry
Published: March 2024

Martin’s poem paints a serene picture of nature, youth, and the power of reading.
Word Matter Tensions
Authors: Allen Janet
Published: March 2024

Frank Smith cites Nagy and Herman (1987) research that shows middle school students learn an average of 4,875 words a year—outside of school. Literacy researcher and educator Janet Allen offers strategies for word study—inside the classroom.
Adventures in the Land of Vocabulary
Authors: AuBuchon Charlie , Wichman Tammy
Published: March 2024

Describes how two eighth-grade language arts teachers ventured into the territory of vocabulary development. Describes several class activities and strategies they used to increase students’ vocabulary and to make students into enthusiastic explorers and discoverers of words.
EDITOR’S MESSAGE: Making Words Matter
Authors: Beers Kylene
Published: March 2024

In order to make words matter, students mush have a passion for the words they are to learn and see a purpose for learning them. In this themed issue, “Vocabulary: Making Words Matter,” the authors emphasize what happens when we make words matter.
PROFESSIONAL BOOK REVIEWS: To Write, Perchance to Publish
Authors: Van Horn Leigh
Published: March 2024

Reviews five recent publications dealing with publishing in the classroom.
Literature as Invitation
Authors: Probst Robert
Published: March 2024

Describes how a discussion of “The Diary of Anne Frank” moved a class to intense discussion. Discusses how the books, and stories, and poems are invitations to a passionate engagement with human experience. Considers literature as the invitation to a dialogue, to intellectual inquiry, to tell one’s own story, to participate in a society and the culture, and to self-definition.
Rezykliertes Material: Die Integration von R-Beton in den neuen Regelwerken
Authors: Bosold Diethelm
Published: March 2024

The German Committee for Reinforced Concrete's guideline on concrete with recycled aggregates has regulated the use of recycled concrete for many years. With increasing discussion on the topics of sustainability and resource efficiency, the demand for recycled aggregates is growing. This development has been taken into account with the adoption and continuation of the regulations of the DAfStb guideline in the revised DIN 1045. This topic also plays a role in other areas such as cement production. In future, the fine components of recycled aggregates can also be used as a further main component of cement. In addition to the sometimes restrictive specifications of the regulations, innovative ideas can of course always be realised via approvals, for example concrete components that contain exclusively recycled aggregates.
Die IBA’27: Quartiere für die Stadt der Zukunft
Authors: Lang Karin , Hofer Andreas , Schiller Tobias
Published: March 2024

100 years after the dawn of architectural modernism at Stuttgart's Weissenhof, the International Building Exhibition 2027 StadtRegion Stuttgart (IBA'27) is looking for the future of building and living together in one of Europe's strongest economic centres. Its exhibition sites in 2027 are socially and functionally mixed houses and neighbourhoods. With clever and bold building projects, the IBA'27 aims to show how living together, housing and working in the region will function in the future - its proximity and diversity, its strength and productivity, in the entire Stuttgart Region.
Delphi Method for Prioritizing Halal Industry Development Strategies in Indonesia
Authors: Pratama Inggi , Harahap Muhammad Habibullah
Published: March 2024

This study aims to determine the priority of halal Industrial Strategy in Indonesia with the Delphi qualitative method. The data used are the results of interviews with academics, practitioners and Islamic economics in general. The total number of expert respondents is 11 experts. Based on the results of the study, in general, of the 8 Strategy variables, all variables have been agreed upon by experts to determine the development strategy of the halal industry in Indonesia. Meanwhile, the order of the most important variables of the Halal Industry Strategy in Indonesia are: (1) Strengthening Regulation & Policies, (2) Building Halal Life Style (3) Strengthening HR Capacity, (4) Holistic Halal Value Chain, (4) Scaling Up Halal Fund and Product Innovation, (4) Sharia Financial Literacy and Inclusion, (7) Halal Research Development, (8) Strengthening Industry and Capacity.
Socio-enterprise as a Solution for Pro-poor Halal Tourism Project
Authors: Leniari
Published: March 2024

The study discusses the influence of tourism on poverty and community welfare in NTB Indonesia which is supported by the theory of Pro-Poor Tourism through the concept of Socioenterprise in halal tourism. This study uses a mix method, namely panel data regression with the object of 10 provinces and districts in West Nusa Tenggara. Descriptive qualitative approach by proposing the concept of sociopreneur as a constructive solution to the implementation of pro-poor tourism. The data from this study were obtained from interviews with related departments, direct observations and from related documents. The results showed that the seven variables in this study, namely the number of tourist visits, the number of tourism businesses, the population, the average length of schooling, unemployment, GDP and PAD had a significant effect on poverty in 10 districts and cities in NTB both simultaneously and individually. The emergence of a concept of Sociopreneur Bajang Pacu, Bajang Pacu has a business unit consisting of Charity Holiday and Ecotourism, people's lodging with a guest concept, rental of climbing equipment and cars, positive hangout shops, while the social unit consists of the 1000 book movement for Lombok, orphaned safari, cinema orphans, and trainings related to tourism development.
Periodic solutions in distribution for stochastic lattice differential equations
Authors: Gao Yue , Yang Xue
Published: March 2024

In this article, we consider stochastic lattice differential equations (SLDEs) in weighted space $l^2_\rho$ of infinite sequences. We establish the well-posedness of solutions and prove the existence of periodic solutions in distribution. An example is given to illustrate the validity of our results.

For more information see https://ejde.math.txstate.edu/Volumes/2024/25/abstr.html
PERAN KETERLIBATAN KERJA, KEPUASAAN KERJA DAN BUDAYA ORGANISASI TERHADAP KOMITMEN ORGANISASI
Authors: Yuningsih Nining
Published: March 2024

Organizational commitment is an important role in the progress of a company, this is due to an effort to encourage employees to be more responsible for their obligations. But in reality, there are not a few organizations or companies that pay less attention to commitment. One of the efforts that can be made to increase organizational commitment includes work involvement, job satisfaction and work culture. This study aims to determine how much work involvement, job satisfaction and organizational culture affect organizational commitment in the company. This study uses a quantitative approach with a sample of 85 employees of PT.PAS Cikarang. The method of analysis uses multiple linear analysis using SPSS V.23 software. This study shows that work involvement does not have a significant effect on Organizational Commitment with t count 1.645 < 1.990 while Job Satisfaction does not significantly affect Organizational Commitment with t count 0.367 < 0.1990 and Organizational Culture has a significant effect on Organizational Commitment with t count 8.296 > 1.990 .
Peran Digital Marketing Dalam Pemberdayaan Usaha Mikro Kecil dan Menengah Fashion
Authors: Amelia Mia
Published: March 2024

UMKM dibidang fashion adalah usaha yang berdiri sendiri yang dilakukan oleh perorangan atau badan usaha disektor fashion. Pelaku UMKM harus mencari strategi yang tepat agar dapat bertahan dan mengembangkan usahanya. Salah satu strategi ialah dengan menggunakan digital marketing yang memungkinkan para pelaku UMKM dapat memasarkan produknya tanpa  terkendala karena jangkauan yang luas dan lebih murah. Penelitian ini digunakan untuk mengetahui bagaimana peran strategi digital marketing dalam pemberdayaan UMKM dibidang fashion. Metode penelitian yang digunakan oleh peneliti adalah dengan teknik analisis deskriptif kualitatif. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukan bahwa dengan adanya digital marketing ini dapat menjadi strategi yang efektif dalam meningkatkan penjualan fashion dan dapat mengembangkan UMKM di bidang fashion.