Methods of research on teaching the English language arts
Subtitle: the methodology chapters from the Handbook of research on teaching the English language arts, second edition
By: edited by James Flood ... [et al.].
Contributors: Flood, James.; International Reading Association.; National Council of Teachers of English.
Publisher: L. Erlbaum Associates
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Mahwah, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
Subjects: Language arts; English language -- Study and teaching
Other titles: Handbook of research on teaching the English language arts.
Notes: "Sponsored by International Reading Association & National Council of Teachers of English."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Understanding research on teaching the English language arts : an introduction for teachers / Sandra Stotsky and Cindy Mall; title: Teacher professionalism and the rise of "multiple literacies" : how to describe our specialized knowledge? / Anne DiPardo; title: The design of empirical research / Robert C. Calfee and Marilyn Chambliss; title: What longitudinal studies say about literacy development/what literacy development says about longitudinal studies / Robert J. Tierney and Margaret Sheehy; title: Case studies : placing literacy phenomena within their actual context / June Birnbaum, Janet Emig, and Douglas Fisher; title: Ethnography as a logic of inquiry / Judith L. Green, Carol N. Dixon, and Amy Zaharlick; title: Teacher researcher projects : from the elementary school teacher's perspective / Fredrick R. Burton and Barbara L. Seidl; title: Teacher inquiry into literacy, social justice, and power / Bob Fecho and JoBeth Allen; title: Synthesis research in language arts instruction / Carl B. Smith and Susan S. Klein; title: Fictive representation : an alternative method for reporting research / Donna E. Alvermann and George G. Hruby; title: Contemporary methodological issues and future directions in research on the teaching of English / M.C. Wittrock.