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At a Glance
THE ENGLISH JOURNAL CORPUS: A closer look at technology in the English classroom

Information sourced from JSTOR | www.jstor.org/journal/englishj

By the Numbers

766: Overall, we identified 766 separate articles with a major focus on
technology--here's how they break down.

[Media Type Donut Chart Data]
Computer (207)    27%
Film/Video (204)  27%
TV (101)          13%
Radio (71)         9%
Other (183)       24%

[Level Donut Chart Data]
K/12              85%
College           15%

[Outcomes Donut Chart Data]
Alphabetic        23%
Multimodal        22%
Both              55%

[Collaboration Donut Chart Data]
Individual        41%
Collaborative     36%
Unspecified       23%

[Timeline]
Through the Years 1912-2012: Selected highlights curated from the corpus.

1912: The first article in our corpus - Vincil Courter's "Vitalizing Literature
Study" - advocates for using slide lanterns to teach poetry, calling it "an
excellent innovation."

1920-21: Every year in our centurylong study included at least one article on
technology, except years 1920 and 1921 - apparently, the authors of that period
were uniquely traditionalist.

1941: ... And the infamous December 7, more precisely. After the 1930s saw a
steady upward trend regarding teachers' interest in technology, this momentum
stalled & nosedived for the years that the US was in WWII.

1978: Patron Saint of Media Studies Marshall McLuhan is featured in the pages of
English Journal - he co-authored an article on teaching students media literacy
skills.

1995: The high-water mark in our corpus, with a total of 22 articles, most of
which dealt, as expected, with the computer (although several surprisingly
talked about printing presses).