The Journal of Literacy Research (JLR) is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal that publishes research in literacy, language, and education.
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✨ JLR Article Spotlight ✨ Dr. Peter Smagorinsky revisits his earlier work on literary interpretation, reflecting on its theoretical limitations. Read Dr. Smagorinsky's article here: doi.org/10.1177/1086296X2614…
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✨JLR Article Spotlight✨In JLR's June issue, Dr. Mary Neville explores how high school ELA students identify texts that matter to them and how time shapes those connections. Read Dr. Neville's article here: doi.org/10.1177/1086296X2614…
🏆 Call for Nominations🏆 Arthur Applebee Award for Excellence in Research on Literacy
Do you know of an article that advanced literacy research in a meaningful way? Nominate it for the 2026 Arthur Applebee Award for Excellence in Research on Literacy!
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✨JLR Article Spotlight✨ In JLR's latest issue, Drs. Grace MyHyun Kim and Brady L. Nash examine the methodological challenges of studying online communities in today's postdigital world. Read Drs. Kim and Nash's article here: doi.org/10.1177/1086296X2614…
✨JLR Article Spotlight✨ In JLR's latest issue, Dr. Sharim Hannegan-Martinez argues that literacy education should incorporate trauma-informed and healing-centered practices by fostering loving relationships. Read Dr. Hannegan-Martinez's article here: doi.org/10.1177/1086296X2614…
In the JLR March issue, Dr. Ankhi Thakurta explores how Indonesian American girls in a virtual critical literacy community used writing to address social inequities and navigate oppression within anti-Asian public spaces. Read her article here: doi.org/10.1177/1086296X2614…
Drs. Claravall and Isidro examine how the Indigenous Filipino concept of Kapwa can be used to interpret the novel Patron Saints of Nothing. Read their article here: doi.org/10.1177/1086296X2514…
In JLR's December issue, Dr. Kevin J. Burke writes an essay encouraging scholars to examine secularisms alongside religious literacies. Read his essay here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
✨JLR Article Spotlight✨ In JLR December's issue, Dr. Wideline Seraphin responds to rising anti-Haitian racism by examining how Haitian and Haitian American youth use writing to challenge colonial narratives. Read Dr. Seraphin's article here: doi.org/10.1177/1086296X2514…
*✨Did You Know?: JLR Insights Edition✨ An insight essay offers a conceptual reflection, emerging idea, or provocative perspective rather than reporting original empirical research. Submit an article today at: mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jlr
Dr. Mike Metz, Grace Chicoine, and Lauren Bayne examine differences in teachers’ uptake of critical language pedagogy and demonstrate the more teachers integrate hegemonic language into their identities, the more hesitant they are to take up critical approaches.
✨JLR Article Spotlight✨In Vol. 57, Issue 3 of JLR, Dr. Daniel Moore draws on storying, narrative inquiry, and poststructural research methods and theory to document metaphors of emergence. Read Dr. Moore's article here: doi.org/10.1177/1086296X2513…
Drs. Patricia Paugh, Lara Handsfield, and Deborah MacPhee reveal ways in which educational journalism uses metaphor to align the “science of reading” with values and beliefs held by conservative Christian religious groups. Read their article here: doi.org/10.1177/1086296X2513…
In JLR Vol. 57, Issue 2, Dr. Chaehyun Lee explores how Asian American counternarratives serve as vehicles for challenging dominant narratives and constructing an equitable classroom space for Korean American students. Read Dr. Lee's study here: doi.org/10.1177/1086296X2513…
✨JLR Article Spotlight✨ In JLR, Volume 57, Issue 2, Dr. Dominique Skye McDaniel examines the literacy practices among youth of color in social media spaces dedicated to activism and civic engagement. Read Dr. McDaniel's article here: doi.org/10.1177/1086296X2513…
In the June issue, Dr. Jessica Masterson analyzed the figured worlds of two high school reading intervention classes through student and teacher interviews and observations and offers a glimpse into this disparity. Read Dr. Masterson's article here: doi.org/10.1177/1086296X2513…
Dr. JaNiece Elzy-Palmer examines the complex interplay between language ideologies and oral reading assessments for Black English-speaking students within Reading Recovery, a literacy intervention for first graders. Read Dr. Elzy-Palmer's article here: doi.org/10.1177/1086296X2513…
In the JLR March issue, Drs. Yu, Hou, Yu, Cheung, and Tong examined underlying mechanisms linking family socioeconomic status (SES) to reading comprehension. Read their article here: doi.org/10.1177/1086296X2513…
Drs. Beauchemin, Hill, and Wilson draw upon counternarratives and theories of curriculum and dominant ideologies to explore how racetalk was silenced and dominant ideologies were legitimized in a Black student teachers' experience. Read their article here: doi.org/10.1177/1086296X2513…
