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Hasty, Michelle Medlin; Fain, Jeanne Gilliam – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2014
In this paper, the authors present findings from a yearlong ethnographic research study that examines the development of critical literacy within two urban fourth grade classrooms in Tennessee. This study examines how young second language learners in English-dominant classrooms learn to read critically, write, and construct multimodal…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Urban Schools, Critical Literacy, English Language Learners
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Jenson, Jennifer; Dahya, Negin; Fisher, Stephanie – Learning, Media and Technology, 2014
In this paper, we identify how and why digital media production can contribute to the active participation of children in education and also consider how much of the existing work in this area is framed as a "miraculous" answer to educational challenges without critical interrogation of either the process or product. To begin, we…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Clubs, Extracurricular Activities, Multiple Literacies
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Öman, Anne; Sofkova Hashemi, Sylvana – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2015
Digital technologies are increasingly implemented in Swedish schools, which impact on education in the contemporary classroom. Screen-based practice opens up for new forms and multiplicity of representations, taking into account that language in a globalized society is more than reading and writing skills. This paper presents a case study of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technology Uses in Education, Case Studies, Design
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Bhooth, Abdullah Mohammad; Azman, Hazita; Ismail, Kemboja – TESOL Journal, 2015
This article investigates the reading practices of 45 EFL Yemeni students using the "learning by design" framework. The framework organizes the teaching and learning of literacy into four processes: experiencing, conceptualising, analysing, and applying. Quantitative and qualitative methods were used to collect data on a sample of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction
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Heydon, Rachel; Moffatt, Lyndsay; Iannacci, Luigi – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2015
Within an era of change to early childhood education and care, this case study of kindergarten classroom literacy curricula sought to understand the production and effects of the curriculum within one urban, Canadian full-day kindergarten that included culturally and linguistically diverse children. Central was a concern for the place of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Elementary School Curriculum, Urban Schools
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Alvermann, Donna E.; Moore, David W. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2011
Donna E. Alvermann, Distinguished Research Professor of Language and Literacy Education at the University of Georgia in Athens, received recognitions and honors as a scholar/leader in adolescent literacy. Her thoughts about contexts for literacy learning challenge that the divide between in- and out-of-school literacy learning is real and needs…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Self Efficacy, Literacy, Youth
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Addison, Colleen; Meyers, Eric – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2013
Information literacy, 40 years since the term was coined, remains a conceptually contested aspect of library and information science research. This paper uses a review of the literature related to the concept of information literacy to identify three different perspectives, their historical origins, and connection to library and information…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Concept Formation, Information Science Education, Educational Research
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Rhoades, Mindi – SchoolArts: The Art Education Magazine for Teachers, 2012
A very successful preschool project the author did at Ohio State University's Schoenbaum Family Center combined students' interest in storytelling, drama, and multiple literacies. For this particular project, a classic children's fairy tale was used, though the project is easily adaptable for other stories, texts, content, and age levels. In this…
Descriptors: Studio Art, Art Activities, Fairy Tales, Story Telling
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Burke, Kevin J.; Greene, Stuart; McKenna, Maria K. – Urban Education, 2016
The article draws on work in Critical Geography Studies and Photovoice methodology, to illustrate the ways in which youth in an inner city conceptualize neighborhoods and public spaces. We utilize youth's photographs, narratives, and maps to tell a story of youth's lived experiences and argue that these experiences are vital sources of knowledge…
Descriptors: Geography, Geography Instruction, Urban Environment, Physical Environment
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Kantz, Deirdre; Marenzi, Ivana – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2016
This article presents the findings of a field experiment in medical English with first-year medical students at the University of Pavia, Northern Italy. Working in groups of 8-10, the students were asked to produce a corpus of medical texts in English demonstrating how the human body is itself a meaningful text (Baldry and Thibault 2006: Ch. 1).…
Descriptors: Human Body, Medical Students, Medical Education, Computer Mediated Communication
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Gu, Mingyue – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2014
This article explores language ideologies and language uses in a multilingual university in Hong Kong by exploring the voices and experiences of both mainland Chinese and Hong Kong students. Drawing on the notions of language ideologies, separate multilingualism, and translanguaging, the research illustrates how students' linguistic ideologies are…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Universities
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Tan, Lynde; Guo, Libo – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2014
This paper describes how the pedagogy of multiliteracies was piloted in a language arts curriculum for high-ability adolescent students. Specifically, it delineates the pedagogical intervention that was needed for its implementation within the formal language arts curriculum. Drawing on ethnographic research in two classes of 14-year-old students…
Descriptors: Multiple Literacies, Outcome Based Education, Language Arts, Academic Ability
Weih, Timothy G. – Online Submission, 2014
Literature holds the potential to significantly influence the lives of readers, but what is the nature of this influence for very young readers? This study investigated the question: What are the relationships between beginning readers and their personal literature? A first grade class of 18 students individually assembled a collection of personal…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Beginning Reading, Reading Interests
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Yeung, Daniel; Curwood, Jen Scott – English in Australia, 2015
Prior scholarship suggests that many boys are disengaged from school-based literacy because they do not see its value or significance in their lives. In response, this study investigates the role of popular culture and new literacies in motivating adolescent boys within secondary English. Drawing on sociocultural approaches to literacy research,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Males, Literacy
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Bruce, David L.; Chiu, Ming Ming – Journal of Teacher Education, 2015
This study explores teachers' reflections on their learning to compose with new technologies in the context of teacher education and/or teacher professional development. English language arts (ELA) teachers (n = 240) in 15 courses learned to use digital video (DV), completed at least one DV group project, and responded to open-ended survey…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Video Technology, Teaching Methods, Teacher Education
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