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Showing 1 to 20 of 61 for “"New literacy"”.
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Exploring the implementation of the new literacy policy in primary schools in Indonesia a case study
Nurturing literacy skills in the early years has been extensively studied and demonstrated to contribute to children's success in the later stages of life. The importance of literacy invites government initiatives to provide research-based literacy programs at schools. However, most of literacy …
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THE UTILITY OF MOBILE-ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING (MALL): ESL STUDENTS' BELIEFS ABOUT NEW LITERACY IN SWAZILAND
The purpose of this study was to investigate the utility of mobile-assisted language learning (MALL) in Swaziland, mainly the use of smartphones for learning English. Because of the need to enable communicative language practice, and access to authentic content (Chinnery, 2006; Petersen & Divitini, …
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The Impact of 1:1 Technology Initiatives on New Literacy in the Secondary ELAR Classroom: A Metasynthesis
… initiatives in the secondary ELAR classroom and new literacy. In response, a meta-synthesis of relevant studies was conducted. To provide an initial framework for the synthesis, the researcher provided conceptual definitions and backgrounds of 1:1 technology initiatives, socio-cultural learning …
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The Multilingual Literacy Practices of Mirpuri Migrants in Pakistan and the UK : Combining New Literacy Studies and Critical Discourse Analysis.
… family's 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 …
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Social media literacy for empowering children with new literacy skills for reading, writing and interacting in the networked digital setting: An Action Research Study of teenage students in Mumbai
… study examines the impact of social media literacy education, using a critical social media literacy paradigm, for the children in Indian contexts and reflects how it fits into the wider perspective of media literacy. Through implementing a participatory social media literacy workshop in …
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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
… qualitative 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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"Uncovering the Hidden Literacies of ""Have -Nots"": A Study of Computer and Internet Use in a Low -Income Community"
… lives. The goal of this study was to develop a new framework, a technology-in-use approach, that views members of marginalized groups as active technology users and that recognizes the real barriers that they experience in trying to adopt new literacy practices. This new model was applied to the …
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Teaching the Sun as Simile: Bringing Nature into Language Arts Middle School Classrooms
… 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 ecosystem of better readers, writers and communicators …
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Technology and Educational Change: Making the Links
… with the challenges and implications of using new information and communications technologies (ICT) in their classrooms. It contributes to knowledge about the way teachers learn and change, their pedagogical interventions, the impact of different professional learning strategies, and …
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Literature circles: in class and online discussions
In compliance to the new literacy shifts in education, a qualitative study was conducted with the intention to aid improvement in literacy instruction. The course of the study spanned for four weeks in one third grade classroom within the same school building. This study was designed to see what …
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A socio-cultural approach to higher education students' experiences with academic literacies
… 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 these literacies interact with personal histories and students' broader …
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The benefits of a language arts literature-based curriculum on Hispanic students in the third-, fourth-, and fifth-grade
… and examined the implementation process, literacy improvements, students' attitudes and limitations undertaken for the Language Arts Literature-based curriculum that was implemented for the first time in 1993-1994 in a predominantly Hispanic district. For this study, the researcher used …
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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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The effects of the use of chinyanja as medium of classroom instruction on reading levels of grade three learners in multilingual primary schools in Chilanga district, Lusaka.
… before and after the introduction of the Primary Literacy Programme (PLP); to establish the availability of teaching and learning materials in Chinyanja the MOI for grade three learners in Primary Schools in Chilanga District; to find out types of training teachers received in PLP teaching and …
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The effects of the use of chinyanja as medium of classroom instruction on reading levels of grade three learners in multilingual primary schools in Chilanga district, Lusaka.
… before and after the introduction of the Primary Literacy Programme (PLP); to establish the availability of teaching and learning materials in Chinyanja the MOI for grade three learners in Primary Schools in Chilanga District; to find out types of training teachers received in PLP teaching 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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