Research in the Teaching of English
VOLUME 33, Number 3, FEBRUARY 1999


Editors' Interoduction 229

The 1998 Alan C Purves Award 232
Kathryn Mitchell Pierce
Ametha F Ball
Carol Gilles
Cindy O'Donneli-Allen


Public Displays ofAfTection: Political Community through Critical Empathy 235
Todd DeStigter


Critical Literacy and Institutional Language 245
Ellen Cushman


Narrative Style, Social Class, and Response to Poetry 275
Lowry Hemphill

Initial Encounters with Unfamiliar Words in Independent Reading 304
Janis M, Harmon


GUEST REVIEWERS 339

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Research in the Teaching of English
VOLUME 33, NUMBER 4, MAY 1999

EDITORS' INTRODUCTION 349

Building a Foundation for Effective Teaching and Learning of English:
A Personal Perspective on Thirty Years of Research
Arthur N. Applebee 352


Coach Bombay's Kids Learn to Write: Children's Appropriation of Media
Material for School Literacy
Anne Haas Dyson 367

Genre Development and Learning: Children Writing Stories,
Science Reports, and Poems
George Kamberelis 401

Annotated Bibliography of Research in the Teaching of English
Deborah Brourn
Wayne Martino
Gert Rijlaarsdam
Anne D' Antonio Stinson
Melissa E. Wlliting 461


GUEST REVIEWERS 474

AUTHOR INDEX 477


SUBJECT INDEX 478

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Research in the Teaching of English
VOLUME 34, NUMBER 1, AUGUST 1999


EDITORS' INTRODUCTION 5


Supporting Possible Worlds:Transformmg Literature Teaching and Learning 10
through Conversations in the Narrative Mode
Suzanne M. Miller
Sharon Legge


"lf Anything is Odd, Inappropriate, Confusing, or Boring, Its Probably 65
lmportant":The Emergence of Inclusive Academic Literacy through
English Classroom Discussion Practices
Lesley A. Rex
David McEadien

The Right to Write: Preservice Teachers' Evolving Understandings of 130
Authenticity and Aesthetic Heat in Multicultural Literature
ShelbyA. Wolf
Darcy Ballentine
Lisa Hill


GURST REVIEWERS 185

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