Academic Papers

NANCY PINE
Phone: 213-477-2613
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SELECTED RESEARCH ARTICLES

Yu, Z-Y & N. Pine. 2008. Discourse Strategies in Early Childhood Book Related Activities in China. National Reading Conference, Orlando, FL. December 2008. Full Article (pdf)

Yu, Z-Y & Pine, N. 2007. Primary grade literacy development in two Chinese villages. National Reading Conference, Austin, TX, December 2007.Full Article (pdf)

Pine, N. 2007 A micro-analysis of looking behavior of an English-speaking and a Chinese-speaking child. In LACUS Forum XXXIII: Variability. Eds. P. Reich, W. J. Sullivan, A. R. Lommel. Texas, Houston: Linguistic Association of the United States and Canada.Full Article (pdf)

Yu, Z-y & Pine, N. 2006. Strategies for enhancing emergent literacy in Chinese preschools. National Reading Conference, Los Angeles, December 2006. Full Article (pdf)

Pine, N. 2005. Visual information-seeking behavior of Chinese- and English-speaking children. In LACUS Forum XXXI: Interconnections. Eds. A. Makkai, W. J. Sullivan, A. R. Lommel. Houston, TX: LACUS. Full Article (pdf)

Pine, N., Huang P-A, Huang, R-S. 2003. Decoding strategies used by Chinese primary school children. Journal of Literacy Research, 35 (2): 777-812. Full Article (pdf)

Pine, N. 2001. The complexity of beginnings. In J. Addison-Jacobsen & D. Hill (Eds.), Struggling toward service learning solutions. Stanford, CA: Service Learning 2000 Center, Stanford University. Full Article (pdf)

Regan, J., Pine, N., & Stephenson, J. 2000. Attention to microspace: Plotting the connections of a cultural theme. In D. G. Lockwood, P. H. Fries, & J. E. Copeland (Eds.), Functional approaches to language, culture and cognition. (Amsterdam studies in theory and history of linguistic science, Series IV). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Full Article (pdf)  

Pine, N., Huang, R-S., Huang, P-A., Zhang, W-J. 1999. Learning strategies of children who know Chinese. In Dreyer, P. (ed.) Yearbook of the Claremont Reading Conference, Claremont, CA Full Article (pdf)

Pine, N. & Zhang, Y. 1999. Intercultural reality and a multiethnic vision. New Era in Education, 80 (1): 2-7. (Journal of the World Education Fellowship.) Full Article (pdf)

Pine, N. (Ed.) 1998. From personal stories to research questions. Teacher Research Series. Los Angeles: Mount St. Mary's College.

Pine, N. (Ed.) 1997. Journeys of reflective practice. Teacher Research Series. Los Angeles: Mount St. Mary’s College.

Pine, N. 1997. Looking and noticing as culturally specific behavior. In A. Melby (Ed.), The Twenty-third LACUS Forum, 1996. Provo, Utah: Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States. Full Article (pdf)

Pine, N. (Ed.) 1996. Pathfinders in the complexity of schooling. Teacher Research Series. Los Angeles:  Mount St. Mary's College.

Pine, N. 1995. Recognizing students' cultural knowledge. In M. Ice & M. Saunders-Lucas (Eds.), Reading: The blending of theory and practice. Seventh Annual Reading Conference Yearbook, California State University, Bakersfield. Bakersfield, CA: CSU Bakersfield. Full Article (pdf)

Pine, N. 1994. The central role of teachers, students and parents: Participatory research in multiethnic school communities. New Era for Education 75(3): 78-84. (Journal of the World Education Fellowship.) Full Article (pdf)

Pine, N. 1994. Teacher research: What it is, and what it is not. In N. Pine (Ed.), Participatory research:  Digging deeper into classroom realities. Teacher Research Series. Claremont, CA: Institute for Education in Transformation, The Claremont Graduate School. Full Article (pdf)

Pine, N. (Ed.) 1994. Participatory research: Digging deeper into classroom realities. Teacher Research Series. Claremont, CA: Institute for Education in Transformation, The Claremont Graduate School.

Pine, N. & Poplin, M. 1994. Learning to hear the voices within school communities. Claremont, CA: Institute for Education in Transformation, The Claremont Graduate School.

Pine, N. (Ed.) 1993. Creating windows of insight: Teachers engaged in participatory research. Teacher Research Series. Claremont, CA: Institute for Education in Transformation, The Claremont Graduate School.

Pine, N. 1992. Three personal theories that suggest models for teacher research. Teachers College Record 93(4):656-72.

Pine, N. 1992. Early traces of literate behavior: Graphical knowledge demonstrated by three-year-olds in the United States and China. In R. Brend (Ed.), The Eighteenth LACUS Forum,1991. Lake Bluff, IL: The Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States.

Pine, N. (Ed.). 1991. Ways to understand schooling: Teacher researchers at work. Monograph of The Center for Schools in Transformation, The Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA.

Pine, N. 1989. A lesson from Leicester and London: The case against formal reading lessons. In M. Douglass (Ed.), Fifty-Third Yearbook of the Claremont Reading Conference. Claremont, CA: Center for Developmental Studies, The Claremont Graduate School.

Pine, N. 1988. Language and action in first grade. Teaching & Learning: The Journal of Natural Inquiry 2(3):22-30. Full Article (pdf)

Students from EDU105A, with Pine, N. 1996. A rich mosaic of learning styles in a college course. In N. Pine (Ed.), Pathfinders in the complexity of schooling. Teacher Research Series. Los Angeles: Mount St. Mary's College.

Stephenson, J., Pine, N., Zhang, L-W., & Xie, J. 1993. Some gestures commonly used in Nanjing, PRC.  Semiotica 95(3/4):235-59.

Clausen, M. & Pine, N. 1993. The process and questionnaires used for the Voices from the Inside Project, Part I. Claremont, CA: Institute for Education in Transformation, The Claremont Graduate School.

Stephenson, J., Pine, N., & Meltzer, T. 1990. Chinese semiotic development. In P. Dreyer & M. Poplin (Eds.), Fifty-Fourth Yearbook of the Claremont Reading Conference. Claremont, CA: Center for Developmental Studies, The Claremont Graduate School.

REPRESENTATIVE PRESENTATIONS

U.S. Middle School and College Education. Yang Tan Area Middle School students and faculty, Yang Tan Village, Anhui Province, China. April 2009.

Learning to speak English in a sea of Chinese & American education: Primary school through college (Learning independent thinking) Lecture series, Yan'an University, Yan'an, Shaanxi Province, China. October 2008.

Standing up for yourself: American and Chinese cultural differences and similarities. English majors assembly, City College, Xi'an Jiaotong Univeristy, Shaanxi Province, China. October 2008.

Interactive teaching of oral English. Address to Faculty and student body and workshops for faculty, Fushun Teachers' College, Fushun, China. April 2008

Primary grade literacy development in two Chinese villages. Poster presented with Zhenyou Yu, from China Women’s University. National Reading Conference, Austin, Texas. December 2007.

Culturally delineated skills and research methodology. Nanjing University Graduate Student Seminar, Nanjing, China. October 2007

Edging toward understanding: Uncovering cultural mismatches. Graduate Humanities Masters Course, Mount St. Mary's College, Los Angeles. September 2007.

Culturally delineated skills of looking behavior of young Chinese children. Across Regions and Cultures Symposium, Society for Research in Child Development Conference, Boston. April 2007.

Changing pre-literacy opportunities in China. Poster presented with Zhenyou Yu, from China Women’s University. National Reading Conference, Los Angeles, California. December 2006.

Circle Time in the US: What preschool teachers are taught. China Women’s University, Beijing, China. September 2006

The Visual Path to Literacy for Chinese and US Children. Faculty and graduate student seminar, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China. April 2006.

Preliteracy knowledge of Chinese and U.S. preschoolers. Paper presented at the National Reading Conference, San Antonio, Texas. December 2004.

Does language shape thought? New research on linguistic relativity and the Whorfian hypothesis. Faculty and graduate student seminar, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China. October 2004.

Analyzing intercultural communication rifts using the Peircian Triangle, Congress of the International Association of Semiotic Studies, Lyon, France, 2004

Cognitive development and language processing, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China, to faculty and graduate students. 2001

Current theoretical influences in Western education, lecture to students and faculty of Education Research College of Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou, China. 2000

Linking community voices and schools with service learning, with Debbie DePuy Giunta, Gloria Ramos, and two third-grade students from Winter Gardens Elementary School. National Coalition of Education Activists Conference, Los Angeles, CA. 2000

No hunger for memories: Recollections of second language learners, with Debbie DePuy Giunta and  Mount St. Mary’s College students and graduates. National Association of Multicultural Educators international conference, San Diego, CA. 1999.

Mismatches in cultural communication, with Zhang Yafei, Communications Institute, Nanjing, to Nanjing University faculty and graduate students, China. 1999.

Understanding cultural mismatches: Tools for teacher-student intercultural communication, International Conference of the World Education Federation, Tasmania, Australia. 1999.

Activity theory and its relation to sociolinguistics. To graduate students and faculty, School of Foreign Studies, Nanjing University, China. 1998.

Visual information seeking behavior in two cultures. Pacific and Asian Communication Association Conference, Honolulu. 1997.

Cultural disequilibrium: A lens for comparative international research, with Zhang Yafei. Conference on Ethnographic Inquiry and Qualitative Research in a Postmodern Age. Sponsored by the University of Southern California, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of California, Irvine. 1997.

Commencement speaker.  Professional Development Academies, Pasadena Unified School District, Pasadena, CA. 1996.

An analytical path into observational data. Education Colloquium, Center for Educational Studies,  Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA. 1996

Communicating across traditional barriers. Keynote address. Family-School-Community Partnerships Conference and Workshop. Sponsored by Compensatory Education, Migrant Education, American Indian Education Offices, California Department of Education. 1994.

Co-presenter of seminar series to model interactive learning, using the topic of cultural rule-learning. Hebei Mechanico-Electrico Engineering College, Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, China. 1994.

The central role of teachers, students and parents: Participatory research in multiethnic school communities. World Education Fellowship, 37th Biennial International Conference, Tokyo. 1994.