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Wicker, Melissa; Ruan, Jiening – Literacy, 2023
This holistic single-case study aimed to understand the impact of digital story telling (DST) on the identity expressions of Native American youth. The question that guided the study asks, 'How do Native American adolescents in a rural, tribal-run after-school programme for Indigenous youth explore and express who they are through digital story…
Descriptors: American Indian Students, Secondary School Students, Tribally Controlled Education, After School Programs
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Arya, Poonam; Christ, Tanya; Chiu, Ming Ming – Journal of Teacher Education, 2014
This study explored how peer and professor facilitations are related to teachers' behaviors during video-case discussions. Fourteen inservice teachers produced 1,787 turns of conversation during 12 video-case discussions that were video-recorded, transcribed, coded, and analyzed with statistical discourse analysis. Professor facilitations (sharing…
Descriptors: Teacher Behavior, Literacy, Protocol Materials, Facilitators (Individuals)
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Brown, Sally – Teaching Education, 2016
This article documents an extended Mexican family's social practices surrounding literacy as they engage with bilingual children's literature in a unique context that draws from both home and school without the pressures of curriculum mandates. The research is situated within the southeastern United States where English-dominant practices permeate…
Descriptors: Literacy, Literacy Education, Bilingual Students, Bilingual Education
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Mielonen, Alissa Marie; Paterson, Wendy – Journal of Inquiry and Action in Education, 2009
Researchers agree that language and literacy derive from the first days of a child's life. Children become literate members in society by listening and interacting with the people that surround them. This study examines how children develop literacy through play by looking closely at the benefits of uninterrupted play and how it encourages…
Descriptors: Play, Literacy, Language Acquisition, Language Skills
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Games, Ivan Alex – Learning, Media and Technology, 2010
This article presents the results of a three-year study of "Gamestar Mechanic" (www.gamestarmechanic.com), a flash-based multiplayer online role-playing game developed for the MacArthur Foundation's digital media learning initiative by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Gamelab in New York. The game's objective is to help children…
Descriptors: Design, Role Playing, Discourse Analysis, Thinking Skills