ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews the body of research on instruction in middle and secondary English language arts classrooms published since 2010. It reviews empirical classroom-based research studies so as to provide a comprehensive understanding of the range of instructional approaches implemented in middle and secondary language arts classrooms today, teachers and students' experiences of them, and their impact on student learning. Based in the trends revealed in this review of this literature, the chapter proposes a vision of language arts instruction and research that the authors expect to unfold in the years to come. Although much of the existing research treats language arts instruction in US classrooms, the chapter includes studies from Australia, Canada, Malaysia, New Zealand, Nigeria, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. The chapter concludes by offering this "crystal ball" of the future of middle and secondary language arts instruction and research.
