TY - BOOK AU - Flood,James ED - International Reading Association. ED - National Council of Teachers of English. TI - Methods of research on teaching the English language arts: the methodology chapters from the Handbook of research on teaching the English language arts, second edition SN - 0805852581 AV - LB1576 .M46 2005 U1 - 428.007073 PY - 2005/// CY - Mahwah, N.J. PB - L. Erlbaum Associates KW - Language arts KW - English language KW - Study and teaching N1 - "Sponsored by International Reading Association & National Council of Teachers of English."; Includes bibliographical references and index; 1; Understanding research on teaching the English language arts : an introduction for teachers; Sandra Stotsky and Cindy Mall --; 2; Teacher professionalism and the rise of "multiple literacies" : how to describe our specialized knowledge?; Anne DiPardo --; 3; The design of empirical research; Robert C. Calfee and Marilyn Chambliss --; 4; What longitudinal studies say about literacy development/what literacy development says about longitudinal studies; Robert J. Tierney and Margaret Sheehy --; 5; Case studies : placing literacy phenomena within their actual context; June Birnbaum, Janet Emig and Douglas Fisher --; 6; Ethnography as a logic of inquiry; Judith L. Green, Carol N. Dixon and Amy Zaharlick --; 7; Teacher researcher projects : from the elementary school teacher's perspective; Fredrick R. Burton and Barbara L. Seidl --; 8; Teacher inquiry into literacy, social justice, and power; Bob Fecho and JoBeth Allen --; 9; Synthesis research in language arts instruction; Carl B. Smith and Susan S. Klein --; 10; Fictive representation : an alternative method for reporting research; Donna E. Alvermann and George G. Hruby --; 11; Contemporary methodological issues and future directions in research on the teaching of English; M. C. Wittrock ER -