Teacher Talk

I am alarmed by the growing popularity of the English only movement in this country. The chapter about teaching second language learners in “But Will it Work with Real Students?”: Scenarios for Teaching English Language Arts by Janet Alsup and Jonathan Bush made me think about why I need to be more of an advocate [...]

I agree with Swenson et al. in their article, “Extending the Conversation: New Technologies, New Literacies, and English Education,” that the main purpose of writing (in any forum) is to make meaning. I also agree that our current model for assessing writing doesn’t promote teaching writing with this goal in mind. They write: “In an [...]