The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) has given its 1994 David
H. Russell Award for Distinguished Research in the Teaching of English to
Berkeley Professor of Education Anne Haas Dyson for her book, Social
Worlds of Children Learning to Write in an Urban Primary School (New York:
Teachers College Press, 1993).
An expert in issues related to early childhood education and language development, Dyson's book studies how children's social lives influence their literacy development and their participation in school. A former member of the NCTE Commission on Composition, Dyson has written a number of books on writing, including The Need for Story: Cultural Diversity in Classroom and Community, edited with Celia Genishi (Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1994). Dyson received an NCTE Promising Researcher Award in 1982.
The award is one of NCTE's highest honors given in recognition of scholarly contributions to the field. It is named in honor of the organization's late president, David H. Russell, who was also a professor of education at Berkeley and a former president of the American Educational Research Association.
Past winners include, among others, Wayne Booth of the University of Chicago, Marie Clay of the University of Auckland, Shirley Brice Heath of Stanford University, and Walter Loban of the University of California at Berkeley. *
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Professor Glynda Hull is one of nine researchers nationwide to receive
a 1994 Grant-in-Aid from the Research Foundation of the National Council of
Teachers of English (NCTE). She plans to use the grant money to produce an
edited book on how literacy is practiced in non-school settings. She will
work on the project collaboratively with education graduate students Julie
Kalnin and Oren Ziv.
The book will include reports on the research Hull and her team of researchers have conducted in Silicon Valley. There will also be chapters on literacy in a variety of out-of-school contexts including the home, after-school clubs, community centers, and at the workplace. She anticipates the book will be published in 1996.
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A book by Professor Claire Kramsch, Context and Culture in Language
Teaching, is the winner of the fourteenth annual Kenneth W. Mildenberger
Prize for an outstanding research publication in the field of teaching foreign
languages and literatures. The book was chosen by the Committee on Honors
and Awards of the Modern Language Association.
The selection committee's citation for the book read, in part: "By joining discussions of second language acquisition research, language acquisition theory, and foreign language methodology to analyses of actual classroom interactions, Claire Kramsch gives teachers tools for understanding and analyzing their own classes. Her examination of the contradictions and conflicts faced by every foreign language teacher is informational and inspirational, and--perhaps because of its clarity, its thoroughness, and its recognition of the fundamental "truths" of language teaching--also comforting." *