English Journal - Volume 106, Issue 3, 2017

Members of the Secondary Section Steering Committee comment on topics of importance to English language arts educators.

“Speaking My Mind” invites readers to speak out about

Guest editors Suzanne Miller and David Bruce discuss multimodality and its

This piece explores the potential classroom effectiveness of digital film and animation creation services for facilitating reading and writing instruction, specifically analyzing poetry, building interdisciplinary connections, and teaching writing strategies.

This article details how English classrooms might be reconceptualized as content creation sites where digital video composing enhances workshop approaches to English instruction.

The author describes how, as our abilities to combine image and text have become more sophisticated and ubiquitous, digital storytelling is a powerful means for students to share their stories and explore the ways they fit in the narrative of American society today.

Through a case study of a seventh-grade ELA teacher, this article examines New Literacies pedagogy and more specifically a digital video project amid high-stakes testing pressures that often place limitations on teaching and learning.

This article describes methods for facilitating student understanding of primary research through digital composition, thus increasing students’ confidence in their abilities as primary researchers and producing new primary sources through the resulting videos.

The author details how new literacies create spaces for student voices to be heard and how, by valuing video as a medium for expression, students are able to critically engage with their world and the world outside of the classroom.

One group of high school students uses documentary video composition to research public transportation, paying special attention to embodied learning.

This study analyzes more than 100 “multimodal autobiographies” that have been created as videos or PowerPoint presentations by preservice teachers.

This article describes a professional development workshop where teachers from a largely rural region explored writing with video, using iMovie as a template.

“Lingua Anglia: Bridging Language and Learners” discusses critical, transformative, and powerful ways to support students’ acquisition of Standard English.

Speaking Truth to Power seeks to explore the experiences and possibilities that arise when educators speak Truth to power.