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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Literacy Narratives"”.
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Identifying as author: exploring the pedagogical basis for assisting diverse students to discover their identities through creatively defined literacy narratives
… instance of selecting readings to teach a literacy narrative unit in a first year college composition course, the author shows how redefining and broadening concepts of text and authorship may allow for students to more easily identify with a literary heritage and identify themselves as …
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Narrative and Personal Literacy: Developing a Pedagogy of Confidence Building for the Writing Classroom
The literacy narrative is unique in what it can contribute to composition studies, illustrating both how our culture inhibits literacy and how people overcome difficult obstacles in learning to read and write. They highlight for writing teachers the life lessons that have advanced people toward …
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What can the literacy narrative accounts of EAL students tell us about their transition from high school to university-based academic practices?
The study explores the usefulness of literacy narratives as a tool in academic writing for revealing the perceptions and values EAL students' place on their academic writing identities. The literacy narratives highlight the multiple identities that students bring with them to the act of writing and …
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Beyond hope: Rhetorics of mobility, possibility, and literacy
… bring with them a deep faith in the power of literacy to rectify social inequalities and improve their students’ social and economic standing. It is this faith—this hope for change—that draws some writing teachers to locations of social and economic hardship. I am interested in how teachers …
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Stock Stories Versus Counterstories: A Contemporary Retelling and Centering of Disenfranchised Narratives
<p>This study examines the literacy narratives of disfranchised educators. It unveils the toll the “literacy myth” has taken on their educational pursuits in American institutions. Through these published narratives, the study explores the ways in which the Eurocentric ideology dominates academic …
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Exploring literacy and technology with middle school English teachers: Articulating understandings of knowledge and teaching practices
… school English teachers' understandings of literacy and technology. In particular, how do they define literacy, view literacy and technology learning and teaching, and how do they use (or not use) technology to enact their views of literacy in their classrooms. This narrative inquiry …
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Characterizing the Adolescent Male Reader: A Narrative Inquiry into the Reading Lives of 12th Grade Boys Enrolled in IB Language A: Literature
… offered at their high school. The boys composed literacy narratives and reflected upon their reading lives through journaling, discussion, writing, revision, interviews, and a focus group. Analysis of this data set resulted in a continuation of the characterization of the male reader, as well as …
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Life's Circles
… Note|This project came about from reading literacy narratives through Rhetoric and Composition courses at Creighton University. These narratives made me think about my own literacies, and the way my family and life have influenced what I am now able to accomplish. This is in no way an …
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New Media, Multiliteracies, and the Globalized Classroom
… World Englishes, intercultural communication, literacy studies, and media studies, exploring and exploiting the potentials these intersecting fields have for improving the practice of teaching writing to a diverse body of students. It took a multiliterate approach to teaching writing in its …
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Multimodal Approaches to Literacy and Teaching English as a Foreign Language at the University Level
… study of language learners and teachers examines literacy events as described in subjects’ journals. In TESOL, a case typically “refers to a person, either a learner or a teacher” (TESOL.org, 2018), and in this thesis one case was a group of four English Language Institute Level 5 Reading, …
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Rewriting the aging body: literacy, technology, and history
… this strike many as exceptional because dominant narratives about who possesses technological literacy—and why—obscure the life experiences of older adults like Millie. In this dissertation, I recover such stories in order to challenge the assumption that older adults are inherently unwilling or …
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Dual Lives Assimilation Literacy
<p>In recent years, the field of literacy studies has not given enough attention to exploring the English literacy journeys of immigrants and in particular, Latin immigrants. Furthermore, there has been little dialogue that has encouraged plans to help fix this issue. </p> <p>We, in the academy, …
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"Stories of the intersection: Indonesian ""street children"" negotiating narratives at the intersection of society, childhood, and work"
… the Indonesian government’s policy, and in the narratives of middle-class communities, media, and a Non-Governmental Organization which works with street children, as well as in the narratives of street children and their families. The dissertation thus investigates how the intersection of …