OP 26. High School English and the Teacher-Student Writing Conference: Fine-Tuned Duets in the Ensemble of the Classroom

By: Melanie Sperling
Publication: National Center for the Study of Writing and Literacy Occasional Paper
Date: 1991

Summary: Sperling examines some of the teacher-student conferences in an urban ninth grade English classroom and concludes that teachers' brief conversations with individual students can play an important role in writing instruction.