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Showing 1 to 20 of 118 for “"Literacy Learning"”.
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Adult literacy learning: perceptions and motivations of volunteer tutors
Most adult literacy studies tend to focus on learner outcomes, and the few that do include tutors usually focus on their compassion as volunteers and/or assess the effectiveness of tutor training. Since community adult literacy programs are largely dependent on volunteer tutors to provide …
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Technology-assisted coaching : a system for Children's literacy learning
… best when knowledgeable adults support their learning process. Yet many learning technologies have not yet incorporated this vital social dimension. In response, we develop a technology-assisted coaching system, where a new adult collaborator--a coach--uses digital tools to support children …
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The Literacy Learning Experience of Boys In Single-Gender Classrooms
… enhance the perceptions male learners have of literacy and literacy learning. Secondly, this study will seek to identify instructional strategies male students perceive to contribute the most to their literacy learning. Through a QUAL-Quan mixed-methods approach, data collection occurred …
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Literacy Learning Experiences of Four Language Minority Students: The Principles of Importance
… that complicate the participating students' literacy learning. First, literacy progress is impacted by language programs provided at school and parental literacy support at home. Second, the parents' views or beliefs concerning first and second language acquisition have an impact on the …
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Educational policy and literacy learning in an ESL classroom: constraints and opportunities
This dissertation was a qualitative case study of an educational program for English Language Learners (ELL) at an elementary school in a small city in the Midwest. This case study investigated how language ideologies influence the constraints and opportunities for the planning and execution of …
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Place, Literacy Learning, and Civic Engagement: A Case Study of Adventure Risk Challenge
Place, Literacy Learning, and Civic Engagement: A Case Study of Adventure-Risk-Challenge investigates learning that takes place at Adventure-Risk-Challenge (ARC), a nonprofit, outside-of-school program that supports the literacy and leadership development of California's underserved youth. Previous …
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Effects of Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices on the Literacy Learning of Latino Students
… learners are unable to or struggle to grasp new learning. This ten-week qualitative study examined teachers’ perceptions as well as implementations of multicultural education and culturally responsive instructional practices as a means of addressing the literacy learning needs of diverse and …
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The impact of computer assisted instruction on sensory cognitive factors in literacy learning.
… assisted instruction on the development of literacy skills. The effect of instructional methodologies designed to stimulate sensory processing (auditory, visual, and somatic sensory) through information processing activities was analyzed. A software program was designed to present …
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“Let Them Play”: Embodied Literacy Learning Through Play in the Early Years Classroom
Literacy programs and curricula define literacy primarily through cognition, and this privileges an assumption that all learning is situated in the brain, separate from the body. Early-years classrooms are being filled with literacy programs designed with this definition in mind, and as a result, …
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Investigating the nature of family involvement in ruManyo-speaking children's home literacy learning
… involvement in ruManyo-speaking children’s home literacy learning. The study was conducted in rural and urban settings in the Kavango Educational Region of Namibia. The particular focus of this small-scale study is the kind of activities children in their homes, and how parents and other family …
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The Impact of a Canine Assisted Reading Program on a Reluctant Reader's Literacy Learning
This capstone explores the opportunity to provide an alternate reading intervention program to reluctant readers in the comfort of their own home. Canine-assisted reading programs have been implemented in school districts around the country; providing students with a reading partner that will not …
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Reciprocal Relationships and Creative Expression in Literacy Learning: Ameliorating Disability Circumstances and Empowering Individuals
… expression as central in the culturally-based literacy pedagogy of the reforms being implemented. Contextually, this work is grounded primarily within the ideologies of John Dewey, and Paolo Freire. Data were collected and reported using narrative storytelling, observations, and reflections, …
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Kindergarteners' Concept Development in Science and Literacy Learning Through Concept-Oriented Reading Instruction (CORI)
… case study examined science concept and literacy learning along with engagement of the students in a Kindergarten class in which science and literacy instruction was integrated through Concept-Oriented Reading Instruction (CORI). CORI is an instructional framework created to increase …
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PRECURSORS OF TEACHERS’ SENSE OF EFFICACY TO ADDRESS THE LITERACY LEARNING OF DIVERSE STUDENTS
… as defined by Bandura (1995), to address the literacy learning of diverse first, second, or third grade (i.e., primary grade level) students. In this process, I purposively selected the location and the participants because answering my research questions required that I conduct the …
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A Meaning-Based Instruction to Enhance Literacy Learning in a Dual-Language Kindergarten Classroom
… stressed the boundaries of current methods of literacy instruction, which are not designed to meet the needs of these at-risk students. Literacy instructional methods need to be remediated through early intervention, followed by effective literacy instruction that is designed to meet the …
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From Deficit to Diversity: Inviting learners to use their linguistic and cultural repertoires for Literacy Learning
… and cultural resources can enhance their learning and participation in literacy lessons. In South Africa, as elsewhere in the world, language policies tend to favour English as the sole medium of instruction and oppose multilingual teaching (Creese and Blackledge, 2010; McKinney, 2017). …
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Year one children's literacy behaviours and perceptions of literacy learning in the classroom and reading recovery contexts
… in which four Year One children engage in the literacy events of their regular and Reading Recovery classrooms. It explores how these children perceived their beginning reading instruction and possible relationships between the children's perceptions and the ways in which they ‘did' literacy in …
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The impact of teacher and peer dialogue on online collaborative writing in an authentic science literacy learning environment
This research is concerned with authentic science writing, and in particular, investigating collaborative science writing at secondary school level, using an online collaborative-writing environment. Specifically, it investigates how measures of successful authenticity relate to (i) how close to …
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