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Showing 1 to 20 of 345 for “"Language and Literacy"”.
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Transformation in Language and Literacy: A Collaborative Approach
… diverse student population in terms of language and cultural diversity as well as a mismatch between teachers' cultural and linguistic backgrounds and that of an increasingly diverse student population. Of this group of culturally and linguistically diverse students, the majority are …
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Language and Literacy: Teaching Elementary Students to Write
Elementary writing instruction & curriculum.
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Assembly Line Americans: Labor, Language, and Literacy at Ford Motors
<p>Assembly Line Americans: Labor, Language, and Literacy at Ford Motors explores the significance of Henry Ford’s and Ford Motor’s industrial education project, which impacted the working-class life and educational development of migrants and US citizens alike. Ford’s industrial education project …
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Language And Literacy Acquisition And Maintenance Of Sudanese Refugee Learners
… purpose of this study was to more fully understand the language and literacy goals and values of a linguistically diverse Southern Sudanese refugee population residing in the Upper Midwest portion of the United States. The linguistic and cultural demographics of the area's major school district …
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Promoting Student -Led Literature Discussions for Second Language and Literacy Development
… learners the opportunity to improve their second language and literacy learning. A group of privileged English language learners in grades 4-5 were observed during a 60-minute-long book club that took place twice weekly in a local public library over a period of four months. The data sources …
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"Enacting and interrogating the ""academic"" in undergraduate language and literacy practices"
… undergraduate writers receive about what writing and language practices qualify as “academic.” I consider several aspects of these messages: their broad circulation, as evidenced through discourse analysis of the “rules” presented in first year writing textbooks; their contradictions, as shown …
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Korean American Students' Language and Literacy Practices at a Korean Language School
… American young adolescent students engage in and construct meaning in Korean and English language and literacy practices at a Korean Language School (KLS) in the United States. From a sociocultural perspective, it focuses on the KLS, a social context where the students are exposed to and …
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Language and literacy supports in early childhood classrooms: comparing ratings of teachers and observers
A number of early literacy skills, including oral language skills, phonological awareness, alphabet knowledge, and print knowledge, have been identified as precursor skills to later literacy skills and outcomes. Previous research has documented that many early childhood educators lack adequate …
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Towards an affective pedagogical model for teaching English language and literacy to migrant learners
… is a process that involves both cognitive and emotional aspects. However, most of the research in education in South Africa tend to focus only on the cognitive side of learning and neglects the very important, emotional side. The consequences of this neglect lie most prominently with …
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Resisting dominant language and literacy ideologies through family multilingualism and the making of ikhaya
… is a social practice that humans have negotiated and managed uninhibited, long before the understanding of ‘language policy' as regulating mechanism with its oppressive monoglossic language ideologies (Romaine, 2001) came into being. As a consequence of occupation and division of African regions …
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A case study of employees' motivation to participate in a workplace language and literacy program
… shopfloor employees participate in workplace language and literacy classes and the factors that affect their motivation to participate are relative unknowns. This study investigates NESB shopfloor employees' motivation to participate in a Communication Skills Development Program (CSDP) course …
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Blinded by the White: Foregrounding Race in a Language and Literacy Course for Preservice Teachers
… through inequitable instructional, curricular, and assessment school practices (Ladson-Billings, 2009). Achievement statistics also show that schools fail to serve African American students more than any other group (Gay, 2010). Colleges of education must take action. Addressing this problem, …
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Reinscribing and reimagining linguistic and social hierarchies in a prison-based language and literacy program
… of translanguaging, raciolinguistic ideologies, and global designs, this dissertation investigates the teaching of language and literacy in a peer-taught, prison-based, English as a second language (ESL) program, Language Partners (LP) which is situated in a men’s medium security prison in …
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Teaching Characteristics And Practices Which Affect Language And Literacy Development For Students With Complex Communication Needs
This study examined teacher characteristics and practices identified as effective through current research for teaching students with complex communication needs. For this population, communication issues are more complex than those typically encountered in other settings. Specifically, the …
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Spoken texts coupled with moving images in the early years – effects on comprehension, language, and literacy
… requiring repeated viewing. It is original and distinctive. The theoretical framework was Mayer's multimedia learning theory combined with Vygotsky's learning theory. The first study was a pilot study to explore whether the intervention was implementable in ordinary classrooms. The second …
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Translanguaging and identities: Bilingual language and literacy practices in a Spanish-English two-way immersion classroom
The purpose of the present study is to understand the complexity of bilinguals’ language and literacy practices in relation to the dynamics of identity construction in Spanish-English two- way immersion practices. For this reason, using a comparative case study, this study investigates both …
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Local ways of knowing : schooling, language, and literacy in a marginal, culturally distinctive community in Botswana
… immigrant community in respect to schooling, language, and literacy and how these are likely to impact on their children's participation in schools. The methodological frame for both data collection and analysis for this study aligned with those employed in most 'ethnographies of literacy'. I …
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Language And Literacy Skills of Adolescent University Students Enrolled in Developmental And Traditional College-Level Writing Courses
… in English. Yet, little is known about the language skills these students possess. May enrollment in developmental English be an indicator of underlying language deficits? The first purpose of this study was to determine the associations between multiple measures of oral language, oral …
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Supporting Children's Acquisition Of Language And Literacy: An Investigation Into The Work Of Classroom Assistants In Mainstream Primary Schools
… assistants support the development of children’s language and literacy in a limited number of mainstream primary schools. The purpose of the study was to gain an understanding of the ways in which assistants support children, the influence of school policies on their work and how, or if, their own …
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