Despite a long debate and the accompanying call for changes in the past few decades, grammar instruction in college English classes, according to some scholars, has remained largely "disempowering,""decontextualized," and "remedial" (Micciche, 2004, p. 718). To search for more effective and empowering grammar teaching, this study explores the use…

This article presents an annotated bibliography of "Research in the Teaching of English" (RTE). The 2010 version of the bibliography involves a major change--the bibliography is available solely as a downloadable pdf file at http://www.ncte.org/journals/rte/issues/v45-2. As the length of the bibliography has grown from 15 pages in 2003 to 88 pages…

The domain of inquiry by literacy researchers has expanded greatly over the past generation. Literacy researchers now address out-of-school literacies, multimodal texts, literacy across the curriculum and other important issues. Research on literacy development has become even more important in the high stakes assessment environments in today's…

Illustrates how path analysis can be used to test implied or inherent causal models in language. (DD)

This study of language use among secondary school students calls into question the hypothesis of social class difference. (DD)

Concludes from three studies that Black English speakers may not spell as well as standard English speakers and that Black English itself can interfere with spelling. (DD)

Proposes a way of conducting a research project that involves the teachers and provides a reliable grading scale for evaluating college students' ability to write compositions. (RB)

Investigates the ability of adults and children to understand aspects of semantic ambiguity. (DD)

Data in this study showed significant linguistic differences between six- and seven-year-olds and a leveling-off between the seven- and eight-year-olds. (DD)

Found that older students speak in a more mature manner than younger ones when presented with paraphrasing tasks. (DD)

A study to determine the degrees of mastery by middle-class second grade children of seventeen syntactic competencies and to compare their oral and written syntactic attainment. (DD)

Explores the history of the study of Black English and the history of researchers' and teachers' attitudes towards Black English and its study. (RB)

Annotates articles, dissertations, and papers on the subject of research in the teaching of English. Organizes annotations under the categories of writing, language, literature, and teacher education. (MS)