Annotated Bibliography of Research in the Teaching of English (2010)

Abstract

While a number of studies in the 2010 Bibliography document the increased use of digital/media tools in the English classroom, they also suggest that given students' heavy use of digital/media tools in their homes, issues of integration and adoption of digital/ media tools in largely print-based curriculum frameworks remain a challenge for English teachers. [...] as the nature of writing has changed to more online, multimodal, remixed forms of communication for multiple, often global, audiences, composition researchers (see "Writing") have increasingly focused on alternative ways of evaluating and assessing writing quality based on criteria of visual rhetoric/design, multimodality, interactivity, connectivity, reception, and engagement that go beyond criteria that have been employed to assess students' print texts, topics addressed in our 2010 review. Another major development since 2003 has been the growth in research on students' acquisition of second language literacies (see "Second Language Literacy"), family/community literacies (see "Literacy"), critical discourse analysis (CDA)/ cultural research on school/community cultural practices and students' identity construction (see "Discourse/Cultural Analysis"), and multicultural literature (see "Literature") related to the increased numbers of students from non-dominant cultures, who will comprise the majority of students in American schools in 2030.