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Year	Name	Title	Chair
2004	Woodcock, Christine	"But I want to read my girl stuff...": Portraits of late adolescent girls and how relational literacies play a role in their negotiations of gender.	Rose-Marie Weber
2004	Frank, Martha	A comparative case study of three preschool sites to explore how four year old children demonstrate their literacy knowledge and how their teachers take advantage of this knowledge in their classrooms.	Sean Walmsley
2003	Killian-Munro, Jackie	Parent response to the books their first-grade children self selected for home reading.	Richard Allington
2003	Lassonde, Cynthia	The Co-construction of Positional Writing Practices in the Context of My Fifth-Grade Classroom	Rose-Marie Weber
2003	Verbeck, Katherine.	Comprehension Monitoring Among Underprepared College Freshmen.	Peter Johnston
2002	Woodside-Jiron, Haley	The Language of Politics and the Politics of Language: A Critical Analysis of California Reading Policy.	Peter Johnston & James Collins
2001	Bates, Richard	Developing Haudenosaunee Heritage-Based Literacy Curriculum at the St. Regis Mohawk School	Rose-Marie Weber
2001	Dozier, Cheryl	Constructing Teacher Knowledge: Learning From the Field	Sean Walmsley
2001	Dickinson, Sherry	Learning to Read Through the Shadows: A Portrait Narrative of a Struggling Reader Who is Emotionally Disordered.	Rose-Marie Weber
2000	Porter, Dolores	Classroom Community: Influences on Literacy Development of Students in One Second Grade Inclusive Classroom	Richard Allington
2000	McTernan, Thomas	High School Literacy Students Making Choices	James Collins
2000	Rogers, Rebecca	Literate identities, discursive practices and social structures: An extended case study of family literacy practices.	Peter Johnston
20001	Peck, Sharon	Now We Know Something: Elementary Teachers’ Perspectives on Change in Reading Instruction.	Rose-Marie Weber
1999	Haneke, Dianne.	Early Adolescents’ Perceptions of Literacy and Literacy Self-Perceptions.	Peter Johnston
1999	James, Ioney	The Literacy Experience of Caribbean Immigrants in American Schools: Case Study of a Jamaican Pupil.	Richard Allington
1999	Kerr, John	Conflict and Struggle in the College Basic Writing Classroom: Listening to the Silence in the Contact Zone.	Sean Walmsley
1999	Chou, Li-Hua	Extending Spoken and Written English Abilities through Literature Discussion Groups among Secondary Students in Taiwan .	Peter Johnston and Rose-Marie Weber
1999	Brooks, Greg	Exploring the Relationship Between Teachers' Reading and Writing and Their Teaching of Reading and Writing.	Richard Allington
1999	Cowan, Reva	Journeys to Literacy Instructional Knowledge: Case Studies of Four Primary Teachers.	Anne McGill-Franzen
1999	Henderson-Leftwich, Stacey	Between Two Domains: Addressing Multicultural Education Through State English Language Arts Standards.	Richard Allington
1997	Baker, Kim	Five Years in Meg's Classroom: Teacher Change in an Era of Complex Educational Reform.	Richard Allington
1997	Shouping, Li	The Semantic Analysis Method for Teaching Chinese Characters.	Rose-Marie Weber
1997	Gioia, Barbara	"Once Upon a Time...": A Collaborative Study of the Storybook Experiences of Three Deaf Preschoolers	Peter Johnston
1997	Rosenthal, Irene.	Sixth Graders Interpretive Thinking About Texts Significant to their Peer Culture.	Sean Walmsley
1997	Chang, Ru	Strategies for Reading English as a Foreign Language.	Rose-Marie Weber
1996	Yaworski, JoAnn	Why Students Succeed or Fail: Theories of Underachieving Affluent College Students.	Rose-Marie Weber
1995	Michelson, Nancy	Reading the Context Clues: One Teacher's Construction of Literacy Instruction in an Inner-city, First Grade Classroom	Richard L. Allington and Rose-Marie Weber
1995	Adams, Ellen	A Descriptive Study of Second Graders' Conversations About Books.	Sean Walmsley
1995	Whipple, Michele	Unraveling Julie's Web: A Case Study of Factors Affecting the Self-Initiated Changes of One Sixth Grade Language Arts Teacher.	Sean Walmsley
1994	Brandau, Deborah	Schooling and Work: A Literacy-Based Inquiry in a Rural Working Class Community.	James Collins
1994	Li, Shouming	The On-Line Construction of Macrostructure During the Reading Comprehension Process of Experienced Native & Advanced Non-Native English Readers	Richard Allington
1992	Zhao, Peisheng	Effects of Text Structure on the Use of Cognitive Capacity in Reading for the Main Idea: A Comparative Study	Rose-Marie Weber
1992	Broikou, Kathleen	Understanding Classroom Teachers' Special Education Referral Practices.	Richard Allington
1992	Howard, Janet	Literacy Learning in a Waldorf School.	Richard Allington
1991	Mike, Dennis	Literacy and the Multiply Disabled: Ethnography of Classroom Interaction.	Peter Johnston
1991	Stuetzel, Helen	Use of and Influence on Basal Reader Manual Activities by Second Grade Teachers	Richard Allington

l990

Jachym, Nora. An Analysis of Basal Workbooks at the First-Reader Level. (Chair: Richard L. Allington)

Gaskins, Robert. Affective Involvement and Its Effect Upon Comprehension. (Chair: James T. Fleming)

Meents, Cassandra. Literacy Instruction in High School Resource Rooms. (Chair: Richard L. Allington)

Wong, Colleen. The Development of Anaphora in Chinese Listening and Reading. (Chair: Rose-Marie Weber)

l989

Weiping Jiang. Effects of Differential Word Order and Semantic Information on L2 Readers’ Short-Term Memory and on Their Decision, Selection and Control of Language Processing Strategies. (Chair: James T. Fleming)

Marian Vassar. The Sensitivity of Cloze Procedure to Passage Organization. (Chair: Richard L. Allington)

Marjorie Byrd. Summary Writing Behaviors of Junior College Students.

(Chair: Sean A. Walmsley)

l988

John Beach. Writing Tasks and the Integration of Reading and Writing in American Basal Reader Series: A Descriptive and Analytical Study. (Chair: Richard L. Allington)

Anne McGill-Franzen. Early Schooling and Literacy: Recursive Questions of Child Development and Public Responsibility. (Chair: James T. Fleming)

Ali Habayeb. Effects of Illustrations on Text Comprehension. (Chair: Edward R. Sipay)

l986

Arlene Adams. Strategy Preference for Assigning Pronoun Antecedents: A Comparison of Normal and Disabled Readers in Listening and Reading Comprehension. (Chair: Edward R. Sipay)

Joan Lawson. An Interview/Observation Study of the Role of the Caregiver in Five Daycare Centers. (Chair: James T. Fleming)

l985

Peter Afflerbach. The Influence of Prior Knowledge on the Construction of Main Ideas. (Chair: Peter Johnston)

Lucinda Grant-Griffin. The Role of Sea Island Creole in the Use and Understanding of Causal and Temporal Connectives in Oral and Written Discourse. (Chair: Edward R. Sipay)

Safiah Osman. Comprehension of Expository Text by Readers of English as a Second Language. (Chair: James T. Fleming)

Kathryn M. Pike. The Content of Instruction in Pullout Compensatory Reading Instruction and Its Relationship to Regular Classroom Instruction. (Chair: Richard L. Allington)

Kathleen F. Scott. Children’s Revision Abilities: Reading and Rewriting as Component Processes. (Chair: James T. Fleming)

Jayne Steubing. Elementary School Teacher Locus of Control, Causal Attributions, and Student Reading Group Placement. (Chair: Richard L. Allington)

l984

Jane Domaracki. The Relationship of the Amount and Structure of Children’s Prior Knowledge to Reading Comprehension of Expository Prose. (Chair: James T. Fleming)

Kathleen Lyon. The Effect on Comprehension of Increasing the Single-Word Recoding Speed of Poor Readers. (Chair: Edward R. Sipay)

Mary C. Shake. The Congruence Between Instructional Philosophies and Practices: A Study of Teacher Thinking. (Chair: Richard L. Allington)

l983

Byong Won Kim. Three Korean Children’s Acquisition of Textual Knowledge of English Articles in Monologue Production and Reading-Retelling. (Chair: James T. Fleming)

l982

Rina Eshel. Effects of Contextual Richness on Word Recognition in Pointed and Unpointed Hebrew Text. (Chair: Richard L. Allington)

John Hynes. Propp and His Progeny: An Evaluation of Story Grammars and a Reappraisal of the Value of Propp’s Theories for Literacy Analysis and Reading Research. (Chair: Sean A. Walmsley)

Veronica Krieger. Sixth Graders’ Recall of Text as a Function of Standardized Paragraph Comprehension, Word Identification Speed, Textual Explicitness and Theme Placement. (Co-Chairs: Peter B. Mosenthal, Richard L. Allington)

l98l

Peter C. McDermott. The Social Context of Adult Reading Instruction. (Chair: James T. Fleming)

Tong Jin Na. Automatic and Controlled Context Effects on Encoding and Decision Processes. (Chair: James T. Fleming)

l980

Mary Lou Morgado. Literacy Competence of Mentally Retarded Adults Residing in Community Residencies. (Chair: Richard L. Allington)

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Marie C. Bolchazy. Classroom Verbal Interaction: Teachers’ Perceptions of Students’ Autonomy and Self-Concept, and Reading Group Placement. (Chair: James T. Fleming)

Jacqueline Marino. Children’s Use of Phonetic, Graphemic, and Morphophonemic Cues in a Spelling Task. (Chair: Sean A. Walmsley)

Elizabeth Taylor. The Effect of Schemata and Text Length on the Number of Inferences Produced by Adult Readers in the Free Recall of Fictional Story. (Chair: Pat Rigg)

l978

Kathleen Gormley. Memory Coding Strategies Used by Deaf, Severely Hearing Impaired and Hearing Children on Consonant Tasks Related to Reading. (Chair:

James T. Fleming)

Sandra Gould. Cloze restoration, recall and discourse processing in middle grade readers. (Chair: James T. Fleming)

l977

Sharon Fisher. Conceptual Tempo and Oral Reading Performance. (Chair: Edward R. Sipay)

l975

Natalie Finder. Effects of Instructing Teachers in a Task Analysis of Comprehension on Children’s Reading Achievement. (Chair: James T. Fleming)

Thomas Fitzgerald. Levels of Difficulty in Connected Discourse, Presented in the Auditory and Visual Modes, on Responses of Educationally Disadvantaged Adults with Differing Abilities. (Chair: James T. Fleming)

Robert Judge. The Effect of Presentation Mode and Material Difficulty on Third and Seventh Graders’ Use of Phonemic and Semantic Attributes to Encode Words Into Long-Term Memory. (Chair: James T. Fleming)

l974

Patricia Binzer. The Effect of Direct Instruction in Comprehension Through Listening on Reading Comprehension. (Chair: Edward R. Sipay)

Etta Miller. Relationships Among Modality Preference, Method of Instruction, and Reading Achievement. (Chair: Edward R. Sipay)

Jerome A. Niles. The Use of Featural and Letter Dependency Information in Word Recognition by Elementary School Children. (Chair: James T. Fleming)

Joseph Fusaro. Eye-Voice Span and Linguistic Constraints in Elementary-School Children. (Chair: Edward Sipay)

l973

Raymond Pressman. The Relationship of Sensory-Integration Matching Abilities and Reading Instructional Approaches to Word Recognition Ability. (Chair: Edward R. Sipay)

l972

Ronald F. Frauley. Relationship Among Receptive Language Skills, Type of Second Language Acquisition Program, and Reading Achievement. (Chair: Edward R. Sipay)

Virginia Rovelli. A Comparison of Three Instructional Sequences for Learning the Grapheme-Phoneme Vowel Correspondences. (Chair: Edward R. Sipay)

Olga Santora. The Effect of Question Position, Pacing, and Mode of Presentation on Learning from Written Prose in Elementary School Children. (Chair: James T. Fleming)

Earl Siler. The Effects of Syntactic and Semantic Constraints on the Oral Reading Performance of Second and Fourth Graders. (Chair: James T. Fleming)

George Tregaskis. The Relationship Between Sex Role Standards of Reading and Reading Achievement of First-Grade Boys. (Chair: James T. Fleming)

Jane Sullivan Martin. The Effect of Dialect Interference and Response Focusing on the Assessment of Auditory Discrimination. (Chair: James T. Fleming)

Rosemary Nevins. The Effect of Training in Letter Names, Letter Sounds and Letter Names and Sounds on the Acquisition of Word Recognition Ability. (Chair: Edward R. Sipay)

Edward J. Early. Effects of Extrinsic Reinforcement on the Reading Achievement of Disadvantaged Retarded Readers. (Chair: Edward R. Sipay)