Testing and Student Engagement with Literature in Urban Classrooms: A Multi-Layered Perspective

Autor/in	Anagnostopoulos, Dorothea
Titel	Testing and Student Engagement with Literature in Urban Classrooms: A Multi-Layered Perspective
Quelle	In: Research in the Teaching of English, 38 (2003) 2, S.177-212 (36 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0034-527X
Schlagwörter	Educational Testing; High Stakes Tests; Discourse Analysis; Educational Policy; Novels; English Instruction; Urban Schools; Learner Engagement; Policy Analysis; Educational Environment; Teaching Methods; English Teachers; Literature; Secondary School Teachers + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Diskursanalyse; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Novel; Roman; English langauage lessons; Englischunterricht; Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; Politikfeldanalyse; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; English language lessons; Teacher; Teachers; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Literatur
Abstract	Though high-stakes testing currently dominates educational policy, few studies examine the consequences of such testing for the teaching and learning of literature in secondary English classrooms. This study takes a multi-layered approach to specify how a high-stakes exam positioned students as readers of literary texts. Drawing on both critical discourse analysis and socio-cultural literacy studies, the study traces the discursive processes through which the exam entered into tasks and talk about a novel in two classrooms to marginalize and contain students' substantive engagement with the issues of race and racism central to the novel. The study points to the need for close analyses of testing texts and of how they influence the ways in which teachers and students read and respond to literature. (Contains 3 tables and 1 note.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10