LARC Newsle t t er (2014) This is the second annual newsletter that chronicles key professional accomplishments of the faculty and graduate students in the Language Arts, Reading, and Children’s Literature (LARC) program (http://education.ufl.edu/larc/), School of Teaching and Learning, College of Education during the 2014 calendar year (January through December). The LARC family embraces sociocultural and linguistic diversity and is committed to promoting academic excellence, educational equity, and social justice.

Welcome Warm welcome to the following individuals who were admitted into the LARC graduate program in 2014: Brittany Murphy (MAE), Tong Wu (MAE), Lindsay Levine (MEd), Jodi Booher (MEd), Nicole Yunck (MEd), Rebecca Salmeron (MEd), Jamie Howard (MEd), Taylor Allore (MEd), Kathleen Nagengast (MEd), Almutawa Nour (Ph.D.), Rebecca Rhoads (MEd), Amanda Bleglecki (MEd), Alyssa Perez (EdS), Mario World (Ph.D.), Chuhua Dai (Ph.D.), Xuezi Zhang (Ph.D.), Shan Zhu (Ph.D.), Yufei Wang (MAE), and Xi Wang (MAE). Best wishes to them as they embark on their academic pursuits.

Congratulations Congratulations are in order to the following individuals:

• Juliette Carter (EdS), Ana Forman (MEd), Christopher Franks (MEd), Soim Shin (Ph.D.), and Mario World (MAE) who graduated in 2014;

• Hsiaoyu Chang, Suzanne Chapman, Juan Du, Yang Qi, and Eva Solano, who successfully defended their dissertation proposals;

• Kate Colantoni-Yurko and Soowo Jo, who passed their qualifying exams (and thus admitted into doctoral candidacy); and

• Lauren Eutsler, who gave birth to Tinsley Rae Eutsler (7lb11oz, 20 1/2 inches) on 12/8/2014 @ 10:46pm.

Awards and Honors

Suzanne Chapman

• Appointed visiting lecturer in the School of Teaching and Learning at UF

       

Lauren Eutsler • Awarded travel grants to attend AERA by both School of Teaching & Learning

and UF’s Graduate Student Council • Elected Technology Chair for the UF Chapter of Kappa Delta Pi International

Honor Society in Education • Elected Vice President of Student Alliance of Graduates in Education (SAGE),

University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Zhihui Fang

• Invited to deliver a Distinguished Scholar Lecture Series at Minzu University, Beijing, China

• Keynote speaker at the Symposium on Content-Based Instruction, Beijing, China • Invited to be Section Editor for an international journal, Writing & Pedagogy

Danling Fu

• Awarded a grant for training teachers of Chinese from the U.S. Security Agency Caitie Gallingane

• Named an Anderson Scholars Faculty Honoree

Publications Books Fu, D., & Matoush, M. (2014). Focus on literacy. New York: Oxford University Press. Book Chapters Fang, Z. (2014). Learning to teach against the institutional grain: A professional development model for teacher empowerment. In X. Zhu & K. Zeichner (Eds.), Preparing teachers for the 21st century (pp. 237-250). London: Springer. Matoush, M., Fu, D., & Miller, S. (2014). Chinese adolescents and US Teachers in digital story writing workshop. In C. Leung, J. Richards, & C. Lassonde (Eds). International collaboration in literacy research and practice (pp. 125-143). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing. Journal Articles Eutsler, L. (2014). [Review of the book On Rereading, by Patricia Meyer Spacks]. Interdisciplinary Humanities, Fall issue. Fang, Z., Ferdig, R., Wang, Z., & Trutschel, B. (2014). Middle school students’ reading responses: A linguistic perspective. Writing & Pedagogy, 6(3). 531-553.

       

Fang, Z., Sun, Y., Chiu, C., & Trutschel, B. (2014). Inservice teachers’ perception of a language-based approach to content area reading. Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 37(1), 55-66. Fang, Z. (2014). Preparing content-area teachers for disciplinary literacy instruction: The role of literacy teacher educators. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 57(6), 444-448. Fu, D. (2014). Bilingualism and multilingualism: A book review of The Routledge Handbook of Multilingualism. The Modern Language Journal, 98, 886-888 Jacobs, P., & Fu, D. (2014). Writing at school: Test-pre writing and digital storytelling. Journal of Writing Teacher Education, 5, 38-51. Jacobs, P., & Fu, D. (2014). Students with learning disabilities in an inclusive writing classroom. Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 10(1), 110-113. Liu, Q, Zhou, X., & Fu, D. (2014). Native English speaking instructors (NES) teaching writing in China. Changing English, 22(1), 74-84. Lowery, R. M., & Chapman, S. C. (2014). Bullying in children's literature: Resources for the classroom. The Florida Reading Journal, 50(1), 32-36.

Conference Presentations Chapman, S., & Fang, Z. (December, 2014). Pedagogical models for promoting literacy instruction across the content areas. Paper presented as part of the symposium titled “Disciplinary Literacy” (organized by Z. Fang) at the annual meeting of the Literacy Research Association, Marco Island, Florida. Chiu, C., Liu, M., & Lin, C. (October, 2014). Fun Learning: Using games to engage students in Chinese Class. Paper presented at the annual meeting of Florida Foreign Language Association, Miami, Florida. Eutsler, L. (October, 2014). Sum sharing: Students solving and sharing math word problems. Individual session presented at the Florida Association of Teacher Educators. Boca Raton, Florida. Eutsler, L., Chapman, S., Qi, Y., & Fang, Z. (January, 2014). Using eReaders to improve content area literacy instruction. Paper presented at the annual meeting of Secondary Reading Council of Florida, Clearwater, Florida. Fang, Z. (December, 2014). A linguistic analysis of middle school students’ reading responses. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Literacy Research Association, Marco Island, Florida.

       

Fang, Z. & Chapman, S. (December, 2014). Teaching close reading with complex texts across the content areas. Paper presented as part of the symposium titled “Implementing the Common Core State Standards: Stories from Multiple Contexts“ (organized by Z. Fang) at the annual meeting of the Literacy Research Association, Marco Island, Florida. Fang, Z., & Chapman, S. (December, 2014). Language and literacy across academic disciplines. Paper presented as part of the symposium titled “Disciplinary Literacy” (organized by Z. Fang) at the annual meeting of the Literacy Research Association, Marco Island, Florida. Fang, Z. (December, 2014). Preparing content area teachers for disciplinary literacy instruction. Paper presented as part of the symposium titled “Disciplinary Literacy” (organized by Z. Fang) at the annual meeting of the Literacy Research Association, Marco Island, Florida. Fang, Z. (December, 2014). Issues in disciplinary literacy instruction. Discussion presented as part of the symposium titled “Disciplinary Literacy” (organized by Z. Fang) at the annual meeting of the Literacy Research Association, Marco Island, Florida. Fang, Z. (November, 2014). The role of literacy teacher educators in preparing content area teachers for disciplinary literacy instruction. Paper presented at the annual meeting of National Council of Teachers of English, Washington, DC. Fang, Z. (March, 2014). Teaching close reading with complex texts. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Association of Applied Linguistics, Portland, Oregon. Fang, Z. (October, 2014). Toward a synergy of approaches to content-based English teaching. Invited keynote address delivered at the Symposium on Content-Based English Instruction, Beijing, China. Fang, Z. (October, 2014). Systemic Functional Linguistics and English Education. Distinguished Scholar Lecture Series delivered at Minzu University of China, Beijing, China. Fang, Z. (October, 2014). Writing for academic purposes and scholarly publication. Invited lecture presented at Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China. Fang, Z. (October, 2014). Adolescents’ reading responses to literature: A functional linguistic perspective. Invited lecture presented at Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China. Fang, Z. (October, 2014). Academic writing. Invited lecture presented at the University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China. Fennessy, M. (May, 2014). Common core state standards, writing, and the new teacher. Paper presented at annual meeting of the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry,

       

Urbana-Champaign, Illinois. Fu, D., Cao, J., Hsien, H., Zhou, X., Dharattaganoon, J., Liu, Q., Shin, S. (February, 2014). Writing our relations: The global connectivity and perspectives of research on writing and writing instruction. Paper presented at the 5th International Conference of Writing Research Across Borders (WRAB), Paris, France. Fu, D., Oliver, E., Shelton, N., Zhou, D., & Altwerger, B. (December, 2014). Dialogic construction of teaching knowledge. Symposium presented at the annual meeting of the Literacy Research Association, Marco Island, Florida Fu, D., & Fennessy, M. (2014). Writing instruction in the CCSS Era. Paper presented as part of the symposium titled “Implementing the Common Core State Standards: Stories from Multiple Contexts“ (organized by Z. Fang) at the annual meeting of the Literacy Research Association, Marco Island, Florida. Fu, D. (May, 2014). Teaching of academic English language and writing. Paper presented at the annual research symposium in Nanjing University, China. Fu, D. (May, 2014). Teaching of English writing to elementary students. Paper presented in the annual symposium at Nanjing Xiaozhuang University, China. Fu, D. (May, 2014). English Writing from informal to formal writing. Paper presented in the annual symposium at Nanjing Xiaozhuang University, China. Fu, D. (September, 2014). A comparative study on literary tradition and writing instruction. Paper presented at the 2rd symposium of Florida Social Science and Humanity, Daytona Beach, Florida. Fu, D., & Jacobs, P. (2014). Inquiry on implementation of a schoolwide writing program. Paper presented at PKY school annual symposium. Gainesville, Florida. Gallingane, C. (December, 2014). Chair of the symposium titled “Disciplinary Literacy” presented at the annual meeting of the Literacy Research Association, Marco Island, Florida. Gallingane, C., Eutsler, L., Fennessy, M., & Kolb, K.(December, 2014). Learning about the common core: Using interactive and collaborative learning strategies with preservice teachers to address key themes of the CCSS in an intermediate reading methods course. Paper presented as part of the symposium titled “Implementing the Common Core State Standards: Stories from Multiple Contexts“ (organized by Z. Fang) at the annual meting of the Literacy Research Association, Marco Island, Florida. Gallingane, C., Ruggles, K., & Ridgewell, N. (November, 2014). Bringing Coursework into the Classroom: Online, Job-embedded Courses in a Yearlong Internship. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Association for the Education of Young

       

Children, Dallas, TX.

Gallingane, C., Ruggles, K., & Ridgewell, N. (February, 2014). Bringing Coursework into the Classroom: Online, Job-embedded Courses in a Yearlong Internship. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association of Teacher Educators, St. Louis, MO. Jo, S. & Fennessy, M. (May, 2014). Analyzing preservice teachers’ read-alouds. Paper presented at annual meeting of the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois. Li, Z. & Chiu, C. (November, 2014). Doctoral students' attitudes and beliefs towards blended learning in an English as a foreign language (EFL) writing course. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the World Educational Research Association, Edinburgh, Scotland. Lowery, R., Colantonio-Yurko, K., Jo, S., Bagglier, T., Oslick, M.E., & Worlds, M. (October, 2014). Orbis Pictus Award and more: Nonfiction books and the Common Core. Paper presented at the annual meeting of Florida Reading Association, Orlando, FL.

Announcements Doctoral Offerings for Fall, 2015 EDG 6017: Writing for Academic Purposes Upcoming Guest Lecture (1-2:30pm, February 20, 2015, 2325 Norman Hall) Sandwich story methodology: Applying the mother tongue in FL teaching to children By Professor Yuhua Ji, Xiamen University, China Upcoming Conferences American Association for Applied Linguistics (March 21-24, 2015) Call for proposals and submission deadline (http://www.aaal.org/) American Educational Research Association (April 16-20, 2015) Call for proposals and submission deadline (http://www.aera.net/default.aspx) Association of Teacher Educators (February 13-17, 2015)

Call for proposals and submission deadline for next year (http://www.ate1.org/pubs/home.cfm)

International Reading Association (July 18-20, 2015)

Call for proposals and submission deadline for next year (http://www.reading.org/)

       

Literacy Research Association (December 2-5, 2015) Call for proposals and submission deadline for next year (http://literacyresearchassociation.org/index.php#)

National Council of Teachers of English (November 19-22, 2015)

Call for proposals and submission deadline for next year (http://www.ncte.org/annual/call)

TESOL International Association (March 25-28, 2015)

Call for proposals and submission deadline for next year (http://www.tesol.org/)

LARC faculty, current and former doctoral students, and visiting scholars presenting at the annual meeting of Literacy Research Association in Marco Island, Florida in December, 2014