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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"print literacy"”.
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The Relationship Between Print Literacy, Acculturation And Acculturative Stress Among Mexican Immigrant Women
<p>Abstract</p> <p>THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PRINT LITERACY, ACCULTURATION, AND ACCULTURATIVE STRESS AMONG MEXICAN IMMIGRANT WOMEN</p> <p>by</p> <p>ALEXANDER MODESTO CINTRON</p> <p>March 2013</p> <p>Advisor: Navaz Peshotan Bhavnagri</p> <p>Major: Curriculum and Instruction</p> <p>Degree: Doctor of …
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The Relationship between Health Literacy and Health Outcomes: A Mixed-Methods Study of African-American Adult Patients with Asthma
… are also more likely to have low health literacy. Low health literacy has been linked to increased use of emergency care, increased hospitalization, decreased use of preventive services, poorer medication adherence, poorer interpretation of prescription labels, nutrition labels, and …
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Sociocultural Literacy Practices of a Sudanese Mother and Son in Canada
… needs of students who lack first language print literacy skills are, more often than not, neglected. The purpose of this thesis is to look at the social and cultural practices of literacy of EAL learners who are illiterate or have a low level of literacy in their first language (L1), since …
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(E)merging pedagogies : exploring the integration of traditional Aboriginal and contemporary Euro-Canadian teaching practices
… students. Of particular concern is the area of print literacy, as achievement in this area has been linked to academic success. This is an area where Aboriginal students in British Columbia score well below their non-Aboriginal counterparts on tests such as the Foundation Skills Assessment. By …
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Confidence, the Image of the Writer, and Digital Literacies: Exploring Writing Self-Efficacy in the College Classroom
… the relationship between self-efficacy and new literacy (Lankshear and Knobel), a term used for twenty-first century forms of digital composition that differ from traditional print literacy, is established and theoretical suggestions made regarding how teachers can incorporate new literacies …
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Teaching television literacy in South African secondary schools
… develops a syllabus for the study of television literacy in South African secondary schools. There are two natural divisions in the development of the thesis; the section which explores epistemological issues and the section which describes the strategic issues. The first section examines the …
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Nutrition literacy: foundations and development of an instrument for assessment
Health literacy has emerged as an area of increasing research focus in the medical literature, yet it has received little attention in the nutrition literature. Registered dietitians (RDs) should be concerned about low health literacy considering its associations with decreased knowledge of disease …
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Health and literacy: a study of literacy practices in a day hospital in the Western Cape
… Day Hospital, this research project focused on literacy practices as embedded in social context. In exploring how patients - both those regarded as literate arid non literate - engaged with the discourses of medicine as represented by medical texts, symbols and artifacts, their constructions of …