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George E. Newell; Meghan Dougherty Kuehnle; Kevin Fulton; Tzu-Jung Lin – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2025
Given the complexity of dialogic argumentative writing and the requisite instruction needed to support student writers, we describe the instructional practices of an English language arts teacher and her culturally and linguistically diverse classroom of 10th graders' writing during key moments in two instructional units during school year…
Descriptors: Dialogs (Language), Persuasive Discourse, Writing (Composition), Student Diversity
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McCormick, Jennifer – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2011
When a language arts curriculum provided students with the opportunity to translate meaning across sign systems (that is, from poetry to dance), numerous benefits were noted. Transmediation, the translation of meaning from one sign system to another, led students to analyze compositional structures and to enhance their use of academic language…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Language Arts, Figurative Language, Poetry