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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"language and literacy practices"”.
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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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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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"""Movin' Up That Third Grade Hill"": Discourses of Progress and Hybrid Language and Literacy Practices in a ""Mainstream"" Multilingual Classroom"
… classrooms requires that educators rethink literacy instruction in this setting. This case study draws from ethnographic and narrative data, and feminist-poststructuralist theories to examine a ""mainstream"" novice teacher as she attempted to adapt her literacy instruction for her …
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“We about to be real”… “Literacy is everywhere”… “Ya somos expertos”: Documenting and learning from families’ language and literacy practices
This dissertation documented and explored the ways in which marginalized families participating in a Two-Way-Immersion (TWI) program enacted their language and literacy practices in home and community contexts. In this study I problematize how schooling, even via “additive” programs such as TWI, …
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The nested contexts of language use and literacy learning in a South African fourth grade class: understanding the dynamics of language and literacy practices
This qualitative case study examines language and literacy practices in English as a second language (L2) in a South African 4th grade classroom, and to a lesser extent in the foundation phase grades (grades R-3), where literacy was in the students’ home language, Zulu. Although I was interested in …
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Undertaking hifth at a Qur'anic school for girls in Cape Town: a case study
This small-scale case study focuses on the language and literacy practices that constitute hifth (the memorisation of the Qur'an) as it is practised at a Qur'anic school in Cape Town. The research aims to identify the language and literacy practices of hifth at this school, as well as investigate …
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“They know exactly with whom to speak German and with whom English”: Grade-R children's language and literacy practices in the context of the linguistic and literacy repertoires and ideologies of four Cape Town bilingual families with German as a heritage language
South Africa is a country of 11 official languages, with a majority of the population speaking at least two languages. Bilingual/multilingual upbringing is the reality of most South African children, and the transfer and maintenance of heritage languages is an important topic in the field of …
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What counts as English? : a discursive investigation between two English language Cape Town primary school grade six classrooms
… counts as English depends on the circumstances and where and how it is employed. In classrooms this socio-cultural artefact is constructed through practices in particular ways. Language and literacy practices in schools produce and re-produce certain things that count. In this dissertation I …
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Literacy Practices in a Changing Cultural Context: The Literacy Development of Two Emergent Mayan-Spanish Bilingual Children
… uses ethnographic tools to document the multiple literacy practices of two Mayan families living in a rural community in Yucatan, Mexico. It explores how young emergent bilingual children make sense of written language through their everyday practices. Data includes field notes from participants …
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Current literacy instructional practices in a Grade One classroom within the context of the South African Outcomes-based curriculum : a case study
Improving the level of literacy for all learners, including those from diverse socio-cultural and economic backgrounds, is high on the list of priorities for education in South Africa. Grade One teachers are currently working within an outcomes-based educational and literacy framework. This implies …
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How English as first additional language is taught and used in quintile one primary school in Grade 4 where learners officially change from isiXhosa to English as the language of instruction: a case study
… how learners in a township primary school learn, and are taught through the medium of English, in a community of pre-dominantly Xhosa speakers, and where English is seldom spoken or heard. The school is typical in the sense that learners from Grade 1 to Grade 3 are taught in isiXhosa as home …
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Hip hop and Literacy in the Lives of Two Students in a Transitional English Course
… the connections of Hip hop to readings, writings and other communicative practices, of students who placed into transitional college English courses? The impetus for the study came from the importance that Hip hop has in the lives of young people (Smitherman, 1997). The participants in this study, …
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Exploring the literacy and language practices of student-teachers at a South African university: a stance-taking analysis
Literacy and language practices are central to any educational context, and many positive educational outcomes rely on students mastering the challenges associated with academic reading and writing. The overriding aim of this project is to explore the literacy and language practices of the …
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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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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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English—only when necessary: literacy practices of Korean undergraduate students at a 'global' university
… higher education in the early 1990s, English language literacy has been a central focus to literacy teachers. Despite the plethora of studies concerning students' second language proficiency, primarily aiming to enhance assimilation and acculturation into the U.S. academic disciplines, not …
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Navigating a bilingual/biliterate childhood: a longitudinal study of three second-generation young learners in the U.S.
… in becoming bilingual/biliterate. With a view of language and literacy acquisition and development as naturally interactive and culturally embedded processes of socialization, I longitudinally investigated three siblings’ bilingual and biliteracy acquisition and development in their natural daily …
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Komiesa ko speel: Heteroglossia and Multimodality in bilingual children's play in a pre-school space
This study examines teachers' and parents' language ideologies which in turn influence the choices about languages they choose for socialising young emergent bi(multi)linguals and determining their identities. It also explores bi(multi)lingual children's heteroglossic practices and multimodal …