50 Years ofLiteracy Research and Instruction: 1961–2011

A Content Analysis of College Reading Association/Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers Teacher Education Publications: Past, Present, and Future

“…Like Morrison et al's (2011) previous content analyses, our data indicate a trend toward more collaborative writing efforts with the number of single author publications dwindling over time. As research highlights, joint publications and research studies among faculty members encourage opportunities for personal and professional satisfaction (Snyder & Draheim, 2002).…”

“…One of the key findings of Morrison et al (2011) was that some authors emerged as most prolific in their contributions to CRA/ALER publications. This may be attributed to the idea that the authors represented publish more broadly or have research interests in multiple areas.…”

“…This investigation took a broad-based look at trends in reading research for the National Reading Conference (NRC). More recently, Morrison and his colleagues conducted a comprehensive content analysis of ALER publications (Morrison et al, 2011) and Still and Gordon (2011) analyzed ALER conference programs. This study takes a closer look at the history and research trends related to preservice teacher education in literacy as represented in the primary publication of the organization.…”

Text topic interest, willingness to read and the level of reading comprehension among adults – the role of gender and education level

“…It is noteworthy that studies concerning reading comprehension have mostly been carried out among children and adolescents. Th is tendency is confi rmed by the literature review made by Morrison et al (2011), showing that only 0.4% of the articles of the Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers and 2.2% of the Literacy Research Organisation concerned adults. Th e scarcity of available study reports makes it impossible to fi nd out whether the relations found in reading habits and reading comprehension are also typical of adults.…”

Implementing training in Portuguese for Speakers of Other Languages in Portugal: the case of adult immigrants with little or no schooling

“…In general, measures at the national level have ultimately focused much more on improving child literacy rather than adult literacy. The latter case is frequently approached as a peripheral issue, particularly when relating to adult migrants from non-EU countries (Jarodzka, de Greef, Gouw, & Brand-Gruwel, 2014;Morrison et al, 2011;Schramm & Feick, 2011).…”