Language, Literacy, and Learning in STEM Education -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Contributor biographies -- Book Series Preface -- Integrating applied linguistics and literacies with STEM education -- Introduction -- Integrating applied linguistics and literacies with STEM education -- Book structure and chapter summaries -- References -- Part I. Research studies in science -- Drawing upon applied linguistics to attain goals in an interdisciplinary chemistry-applied linguistics project -- Introduction -- Background -- Contributions of applied linguistics subfields to the write like a chemist project -- English for Specific Purposes -- Discourse analysis and corpus linguistics -- Language teaching pedagogy -- Implications for other STEM areas -- Acknowledgments -- References -- A genre analysis of student microbiologylaboratory notebooks -- The laboratory notebook -- Educational studies of laboratory notebooks -- Methodology -- Results -- Characterizing the genre of microbiology laboratory notebooks: Conclusions and implications -- References -- Writing and becoming a scientist -- Introduction -- Context and methods -- Participants -- Data collection -- Data analysis -- Case 1: April - Tentative steps toward the future -- Case 2: Carla - A teacher emerges -- Case 3: Nedra - Timing is everything -- Conclusions, implications, and limitations -- References -- Appendix -- Examples of Coded Interview Excerpts -- Part II. Research studies in engineering -- Writing as social practice in engineering -- Introduction -- Writing as social practice -- Disciplinary epistemology, ideologies and writing in engineering -- Research methodology -- Aims, context, and participants in the study -- Data collection and collaboration.

Toward a nuanced understanding of writing as social practice in engineering -- Conclusion -- References -- Graphics and invention in academic engineers' writing for publication -- Introduction -- Theoretical framework: Engineering writing as multimodal social practice -- Research on writing for publication in science and engineering -- Methodology of the larger study -- Study setting and participants -- Findings: Graphics as invention in writing for publication -- Text history: Launching a research article -- Discussion and implications -- References -- Part III. Research studies in mathematics -- Mathematics education, cultural practices, and communication -- Introduction -- Mathematical communication and students' cultural contexts -- Research methodology -- Mathematical communication grounded in students' experiences as a way to learn mathematics -- Discussion -- References -- Learning while teaching -- Introduction -- Teacher listening and classroom language patterns -- Theoretical framework -- Research design -- Participants and their curriculum units -- Data collection -- Data analysis -- Curriculum materials -- Analysis of classroom episodes -- Evaluative listening -- Interpretive listening -- Toward hermeneutic listening -- Discussion -- Implications for STEM Educators -- References -- Improving girls' interest in mathematics through writing -- Introduction -- Writing as a tool for improving students' learning of mathematics -- A study of writing in middle-school mathematics classes -- Mixed methods research methodology -- Participating teachers -- Participants' use of writing to teach mathematics -- Research sites -- Data collection: Student survey -- Student participants -- Data analysis -- Students' attitudes toward writing in mathematics classes -- Indications of mathematical knowledge growth -- Female students' open-ended responses.

Male students' open-ended responses -- Conclusion -- References -- Part IV. Final words: Facilitating interdisciplinary collaboration -- Facilitating STEM education through interdisciplinarity -- The context for collaboration -- Bauerle: Facilitating innovative science education through interdisciplinarity -- Hatfull: Lessons from the PHIRE - Interdisciplinarity in an innovative science education program -- Hanauer: Applied linguistics and science education -- Facilitating STEM education through interdisciplinarity -- References -- Index.