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Ruth French – Qualitative Research Journal, 2025
Purpose: The aim of this paper is to explain key aspects of teaching and learning relevant to sustaining literacy development beyond the early years of schooling, including effective teaching of more complex texts. The paper takes as its point of departure Touchstone 9 of the Foundation Touchstones promoted by the Foundation of Learning and…
Descriptors: Literacy, Sustainability, Psychological Patterns, Difficulty Level
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Idalia Nuñez; Enrique David Degollado; Claudia G. Cervantes-Soon – Reading Research Quarterly, 2025
In this theoretical paper, we aim to (re)imagine and (re)conceptualize biliteracy as an anti-colonial endeavor to destabilize colonial projects that continue to permeate how language and literacy are conceptualized in schools. We build on previous scholarship that has theorized Spanish-English biliteracy and extend this scholarship by centering…
Descriptors: Literacy, Bilingualism, Second Language Learning, Native Language
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María José Aragón; Meghan Corella; Nora W. Lang – Reading Research Quarterly, 2025
Despite recent calls to more fully incorporate multimodal perspectives into literacies research, there is still limited scholarship examining how students critically engage in reading activities by drawing on embodied practices. Racially and linguistically minoritized students are particularly disadvantaged by dominant logocentric and…
Descriptors: Literacy, Constructivism (Learning), Learning Activities, Public Schools
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Brenda Aromu Wawire; Gorrety Nafula Wawire; Francis Kiroro – Reading Research Quarterly, 2025
This research explores structural relations among the component skills of reading comprehension in Kiswahili. Furthermore, the study examines the relationship between socio-economic status, home and school language use, and home literacy environment with Kiswahili reading outcomes. The study utilized secondary data from the baseline Tusome…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, African Languages, Reading Comprehension, Socioeconomic Status
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Lindsey W. Rowe – Research in the Teaching of English, 2025
This paper draws on Bakhtins notion of heteroglossia to expand theorizations of community translanguaging. Ethnographic and practitioner inquiry methods are used to explore the multiple voices that multilingual elementary students adopted and adapted in their digital, translingual texts. Findings illustrate how children drew from multiple voices,…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Language Variation, Code Switching (Language), Ethnography
Qianqian Zhang-Wu, Editor; Bridget Goodman, Editor – Multilingual Matters, 2025
While substantial research has looked backward at the colonial history of language and forward to the potential of decolonizing English for linguistic justice, there is a lack of investigation looking "inward" at the lived raciolinguistic experiences of multilingual scholars. This edited collection opens a healing space for storytelling…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Race, Language Variation, Language Attitudes