Expressive Language and the Art of English Teaching: Theorizing the Relationship between Literature and Narrative

Authors

Mary M. Juzwik, Michigan State University
Michael B. Sherry, Michigan State University

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-2007

Abstract

How do teachers in diverse classrooms enact a transactional mode of literary response in their orchestration of classroom conversations about literature? This paper proposes that a theory of expressive language is central to answering this question and that the discourse genre of oral narratives may hold critically importance in accomplishing this challenge.

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Citation / Publisher Attribution

English Education, v. 39, issue 3, p. 226-259

Copyright © 2007 National Council of Teachers of English

Link to the publisher: http://www.ncte.org/journals/ee/issues/v39-3

Scholar Commons Citation

Juzwik, Mary M. and Sherry, Michael B., "Expressive Language and the Art of English Teaching: Theorizing the Relationship between Literature and Narrative" (2007). Teaching and Learning Faculty Publications. 72.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/tal_facpub/72