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Showing 1 to 20 of 102 for “"Literacy studies"”.
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Outsourcing Our Memory 2.0: Using Walter Ong's Orality/Literacy Studies to Recognize Technologies Effects on Memory
… In Ong’s seminal text, Orality and Literacy, he identified the significance that communicative shifts have on the way we receive information and create knowledge. Being an astute polymath, Ong’s multidisciplinary approach to communication opens avenues to the topic of technology and …
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The Multilingual Literacy Practices of Mirpuri Migrants in Pakistan and the UK : Combining New Literacy Studies and Critical Discourse Analysis.
… migrations, as seen through the lens of New Literacy Studies. This means understanding literacy as a social practice, applied in different contexts to meet different purposes, in this case for the purposes of migration. This focus meant exploring many different activities involving reading …
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Understanding the experiences of students who enter the MBChB programme from educationally disadvantaged backgrounds and either succeed or fail in passing the first semester
… Drawing on the theoretical framework of the New Literacy Studies and, in particular, Gee's notion of Discourse acquisition, I sought to better understand the issues that impacted on success for students from educationally disadvantaged backgrounds who entered the MBChB programme.
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Talking democracy in Grade 7 : a discourse analysis of SRC practice in a primary school
… research framework, informed by the New Literacy Studies and Critical Discourse Analysis, with Grade 7 learners in a primary school. I identified school Student Representative Councils (SRC's) as a potential site for 'democracy education-in-action'.
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Teaching the Sun as Simile: Bringing Nature into Language Arts Middle School Classrooms
… Arts (ELA) by infusing nature and environmental studies. This essay defines emerging concepts of new literacy studies and eco-criticism, literacy, and composition as it relates to ELA pedagogy. Also, it provides an explanation for the importance and relevance of using nature to develop an …
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"I'm Not Talking to Myself, I'm Having a Parent-Teacher Conference!": A Study of Literacy Practices and Mediation within Homeschooling Families
… college-ready students. Serious academic studies of homeschooling remain scarce, and those that exist tend to come out of sociology and anthropology. Through an analysis of the literacy practices that constitute the work of homeschooling, this study offers findings and conclusions relevant …
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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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Injula ngezinkinga ezidala ukuthi abafundi bamabanga aphansi bangabi nasisekelo sokwazi ulimi lwesiZulu ngendlela efanele
This research is based on literacy development in rural schools of KwaZulu-Natal. The focus of the study is on mother tongue education with reference to the role of isiZulu in the provision of Literacy at the foundation phase level. The chapters present an in depth analysis of the key problems …
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A socio-cultural approach to higher education students' experiences with academic literacies
… interviews by five students on an Education Studies undergraduate degree course. Drawing from the theoretical frame of New Literacy Studies, academic literacies are broadly defined as socially situated literacy practices. The focus is on how and where ‘academic literacies’ happen and how …
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Alternative Literacies, Resistance, and Spatial Representations in The Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Culture of Zine Publication in New Orleans
… (DIY) culture of zine-making in urban studies and the growing interest in ethnographically oriented research in literacy studies, rhetoric, and linguistics this research explores the people, places, and practices behind zine publication in New Orleans, Louisiana through participant …
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Early language and literacy learning in a peripheral African setting : a study of children's participation in home and school communicative and literacy practices in and around Manzini, Swaziland
This thesis is an ethnographic study of the early literacy development of four children from low-income families in and around Manzini, Swaziland. It investigated the orientations to literacy, language, and communication that children brought to school from home, vice versa, and the sorts of …
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Pre-service teachers' perceptions and practices: integrating digital literacy into English education
… skills and the traditional centrality of literacy to the English classroom, digital literacy has an integral place in English teacher education, despite its absence from the current South African English curriculum. However, integrating digital literacy is challenging and often resisted by …
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GOVERNING LITERACY: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF THE UNITED NATIONS DECADES OF LITERACY, 1990-2000 AND 2003-2012
… (CDA), this study examines constructs of literacy and literacy education embedded in policy documents related to the United Nations Decades of Literacy (1990-2000 and 2003-2012) and argues that two important shifts related to discourse occur between the policies. The first shift is …
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Everyone has a view of literacy : learners' perceptions of literacy and their practices at home and at school
… write about, speak about, depict and value their literacy activities at home and how this links with their performance at school. It also examines the shift in learners' perceptions of literacy through their involvement in the research project. The theoretical framework for the research is drawn …
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Hermeneutics of Residue: Archival Slime and Queer Literacy
… of Residue: Archival Slime and Queer Literacy</em> spans the fields of composition and rhetoric, literacy studies, archival studies, and queer theory. Deploying unconventional archival texts such as public graffiti, self-published zines, and underground manuals, this project explores …
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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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Geopolitics of Digital Literacies: Accounting for Myths and Realities
… in the One-Third World. Building on the work of literacy studies and computers and writing scholarship, I define and critique "the digital literacy myth"-a public discourse wherein digital literacies and their technologies are portrayed as inherently democratic for individuals and nations, and …
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Lectures in transition : a study of communicative practices in the humanities in a South African university
… in the academic literacies field within the New Literacy Studies with its interest in the politics of student access to valued textual practices. The study draws from the following complementary traditions: a) theories of dialogic co-presence (Bakhtin, Goffman) that foreground how all …
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The Writing on the Wall: Examining the Literacy Practices of Home Renovation Work
… is still a gap in research investigating the literacy practices of “blue-collar” workplaces. Through the lenses of New Literacy Studies and activity theory, this case study examines the texts used in a room remodel, the literacy practices surrounding the texts, and the sociocultural …
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Constructing the gap between past and present literacy practices in the South African Police Service
… constructs the gap between past and present literacy practices in the South African Police Service (SAPS)?" To answer the research question, ethnographic methods were employed to gather data in a police station on the Cape Flats, renamed Phatisanani police station. In researching the gap …
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