...Mellinee Lesley; Staci Tharp Purpose This paper aims to discover how teachers develop theories of writing through investigating the views of English teachers about writing instruction at the end of their first-third year of teaching in a high school struggling with teacher attrition, limited...

... literacy practices in these communities. Design/methodology/approach Researchers played a mobile phone war game for one year and collected publicly available writing from the in-game chat by taking over 13,000 screenshots. Drawing on theories of literacies as a social practice, Foucault’s conception...

...P. Darin Payne Purpose This study aims to respond to the rapid transformation of writing instruction amidst the relentless spread of generative AI tools into our and our students’ everyday lives. The study is aimed at writing teachers of secondary education through college. It offers them...

...Alexandra Thrall; T. Philip Nichols; Kevin R. Magill Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine how young people imagine civic futures through speculative fiction writing about artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. The authors argue that young people’s speculative fiction writing about...

...Lucinda McKnight; Cara Shipp Purpose The purpose of this paper is to share findings from empirically driven conceptual research into the implications for English teachers of understanding generative AI as a “tool” for writing. Design/methodology/approach The paper reports early findings from...

... and similar generative AI platforms, moving beyond the general public’s concerns about student cheating and robot takeovers. NCRLL then convened a webinar of eight leading scholars in writing and literacies development, inspired by that listerv conversation and an organizational interest in promoting...

...Tonya B. Perry; Teaira Catherine Lee McMurtry Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of a year-long writing intervention located in an urban high school in partnership with a university teacher education professor and the students. The goals were as follows: to increase student...

...Tracey T. Flores Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore Somos Escritoras, a creative space and writing workshop, for Latina adolescent girls (grades 6–8), as a program that supports not only writing and literacy development of girls, but also their college going identities. Design...

..., as well as develop their early literacies. Dyson (2003) and Yoon (2014) have both demonstrated ways children’s interests and popular culture inform their writing and how peer interactions in play connect to their school reading and writing. Science Writing Play Embodiment Digital Literacy...

... context. Research in literacy has long included a strong thread tracing literacy in religious spaces and traditions, from literacy in religious schools to religion in language learning to religious identities in secular literacy spaces. Significant studies across English education, composition and writing...

...Melina Lesus; Andrea Vaughan Purpose This study aims to explore how youth poets wrote in a community of practice and how their out-of-school poetry writing contributed toward developing disciplinary literacy. Design/methodology/approach In this qualitative case study, the authors studied...

... programming-as-writing are suggested. Practical implications Connections to the supportive structures within Scratch are discussed in the context of programming-as-writing. Considerations regarding the use of Scratch to promote programming-as-writing are provided for educators. Originality/value...

... workshop. Originality/value Scholars have theorized multimodal approaches to reading and writing pedagogy as an equitable enterprise that values meaning-makers using a wide variety of semiotic resources. This study shows how incorporating an explicit multimodal composition opportunity allowed one...

..., they must be afforded a variety of semiotic resources at school. Sally Brown can be contacted at: sallybrown@georgiasouthern.edu 15 07 2020 28 10 2020 02 12 2020 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Literacy Writing...

...Nadia Behizadeh Purpose This paper aims to examine two teachers’ beliefs and practices on teaching writing at an urban, high-performing middle school to determine: What discourses of writing are being taught in an urban, high-performing US public middle school? What factors prevent or enable...

... published in The Best Teen Writing. They strive to inform the debate between educators who value memoir as part of the secondary curriculum and critics who question the ability of youth to write purposeful, meaningful narrative. Additionally, the authors also present memoir as a unique genre for youth...

... literacy framework, the research asked: How do students in a community-based writing project demonstrate self-empowerment and agency through narrative writing? Design/methodology/approach This qualitative case study examined the students’ published narratives. The researchers used ethnographic methods...

... that leads to the water’s edge, though, the writing yet to be done, you can see the proof of the history: loose pebbles that on closer inspection turn out to be fragments of oyster shells. Fair Point was once a Black-owned oyster and crab farm. “This is an example of traditional land use,” our guide says...

...Brady Nash Purpose This paper aims to explore recent research (2007-2017) on the implementation of multimodal writing instruction in secondary English courses. It seeks to highlight the varied ways in which theoretical conceptions of multimodality have been implemented in writing instruction...

... 11 06 2018 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Literacy Writing New literacies Literacy and identity Immigrant populations “Youth are part of the story of the political life of any given nation, and of the globe...