Language Arts Distinguished Article Award
2023 Award Recipient: “Engaging Elementary Students beyond the Text through Multimodal Critical Literacy” Vol. 100, No. 6, July 2023, by Dorian Harrison and Rebecca E. Linares
Dorian Harrison is an assistant professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning at The Ohio State University. Her research explores how equity in literacy education is enacted, paying particular attention to the ways communities of learners are challenging deficit views and practices. Her approach looks at the intersections of race, class, and language that are at play during teaching and learning activities.
Rebecca E. Linares is an associate professor in the Department of Critical Literacy, Technology, and Multilingual Education at Rowan University. Her research examines the bilingual and multilingual literacies, transnational literacy practices, and translanguaging practices of emergent multilingual adolescents, particularly those who are speakers of Indigenous languages. She is specifically interested in how young people access and utilize literacy knowledge in their home language(s) to negotiate their participation in new and shifting cultural and linguistic landscapes.
The award is presented at the Elementary Get-Together during the NCTE Annual Convention
Award Details
Nominations are not accepted for this award.
Purpose:
This award recognizes outstanding Language Arts articles that move forward the Elementary Section Steering Committee‘s mission of the pursuit for justice and equity, brings the sociocultural realities of children’s everyday lives into language arts instruction, and facilitates conversations of rich and authentic literacies.
Eligibility:
The award shall be given every fall, covering issues published between September and July of the previous volume year. Research/scholarship articles, not department articles, will be eligible for the award.
Award Specifics:
The award is presented at the Elementary Get-Together during the NCTE Annual Convention. The winner receives a framed copy of the cover of the issue of Language Arts in which the article is published.
Judging:
In July, the editor(s) of Language Arts shall draw up the annual list of eligible authors and shall be the arbiters of eligibility. The Elementary Section Steering Committee award subcommittee will determine the winner.
NCTE Language Arts Distinguished Article Award Winners
2022 Winner
“History Is a Way of Building Identity: How One Independent Neighborhood Elementary School Uses Black Cultural Movements to Engage Children’s Sociopolitical Perspectives” Vol. 99, No. 3, January 2022, Wintre Foxworth Johnson, University of Virginia
2021 Winner
“‘Seeing’ Difference Differently: Inquiry-Based Learning as a Site/Sight of Intersectional Justice in English Language Arts” Vol. 98, No. 3, January 2021 by Jon M. Wargo, Boston College
2020 Winner
“Creating a Collage of Story and Memory to Support Identity Work and Connect with Literacy Teaching” Language Arts, Vol. 97, No. 5, May 2020 by Melody Zoch, University of North Carolina Greensboro
2019 Winner
“A Queer Approach to Addressing Gender and Sexuality through Literature Discussions with Second Graders,” Language Arts, Vol. 96, No. 2, November 2018 by Paul Hartman, Chicago Public Schools
2018 Winner
“Translanguaging and Responsive Assessment Adaptations: Emergent Bilingual Readers through the Lens of Possibility” (95.6, July 2018) by Laura Ascenzi-Moreno, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, New York
2017 Winner
Stephanie Jones, University of Georgia, Athens and Karen Spector, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, “Becoming Unstuck: Racism and Misogyny as Traumas Diffused in the Ordinary” May 2017