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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"literacy as social practice"”.
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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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Stories of an evolving understanding of literacy by a teacher, mother, and researcher
A teacher’s understandings of literacy have an impact on the pedagogical decisions that the teacher makes. Such understandings of literacy may evolve through professional learning, experiences, and reflective practice, but this evolution is seldom documented and therefore not often considered as a …
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Towards a framework for addressing diverse learners in international, English-medium, print-centred DE : a Zimbabwean case study
This study examines an increasingly common distance learning context: where tertiary level and English-medium DE courses are produced, tutored and examined in one country but studied by learners in other countries and who have English as an additional language.Empirical work is drawn from a …
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'Heteroglossia in IsiXhosa/English bilingual children's writing: a case study of Grade 6 IsiXhosa Home Language in a Township School
… and siSwati. IsiXhosa is mostly spoken in the Eastern and Western Cape Provinces. Those that regard isiXhosa as their home language (HL) are referred to as amaXhosa. However, as a teacher of isiXhosa HL, I have observed that there is often a mismatch between the isiXhosa used by the students and …
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Komiesa ko speel: Heteroglossia and Multimodality in bilingual children's play in a pre-school space
… 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 communication in their play in a pre-school setting and contrasts them with the …