Building a foundation for effective teaching and earning of English: A personal perspective on thirty years of research

Arthur Applebee gave the following talk upon receiving the 1998 David H. Ru ssell Award for Distinguished Research in the Teaching of English from the National Council of Teachers of English. He used the occasion to look back on move than thirty years of his own work. In so doing, he traces the recen t history of the field as: a whole, exploring the development of the powerf ul theories that inform our field, the research and practice that grew out of them, and the challenges that remain.