The Handbook of Research on Writing ventures to sum up inquiry over the last few decades
on what we know about writing and the many ways we know it: How do people write? How …

This qualitative study examined code-switching patterns in the writing-related talk of 6
emergent Spanish-English bilingual first-grade children. Audio recordings, field notes, and …

This book in the NCRLL Collection provides an introductory discussion of discourse analysis
of language and literacy events in classrooms. The authors introduce approaches to …

My goal in this chapter is to use seminal and current research to sketch a trajectory for
writing that begins long before children produce conventional letters or words. Specifically …

The aim of the dissertation is to study the relationship between participation in classroom
interaction and constraints and affordances for creating equity in classrooms. To facilitate …

The ability to recognize and adopt a variety of social roles is essential for successful
communication. First language research is available on this topic, but very little information …

ABSTRACTS There is ample evidence that students frequently move unsuccessfully from a
lower to a higher academic track, but little research into how students successfully make that …

This paper describes how one group of Euro-American, middle-class two-year-olds living in
the southern US learned to form and enact locally appropriate textual intentions and literate …

This article reviews Brian Street's (1995) book Social Literacies: Critical Approaches to
Literacy Development, Ethnography, and Education in light of current debates in literacy and …

This book reviews what the authors term advocacy research in literacy education-research
that explicitly addresses issues of social justice, equity, and democracy with the distinct …