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Biliteracy Development in Mexican Primary Education: Analysing Written Expression in P'urhepecha and Spanish
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Groff, Cynthia; Bellamy, Kate – Language Learning Journal, 2020
In the face of immense pressure from Spanish, the national language, a group of educators in Michoacán are committed to prioritising P'urhepecha in two local primary schools where P'urhepecha is the dominant community language. The history of educational initiatives among the P'urhepecha people illustrates the inconsistent and primarily…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingual Education, Literacy, Spanish
Implementing Dialogic Reading Intervention through Community-Based Participatory Research: A Tutorial
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Holt, Yolanda; Asagbra, Elijah – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2021
Purpose: This work describes community-based participatory research (CBPR) to support language and literacy development with Pre-K and kindergarten African American boys. Method: The aim and goals of the project were designed using the CBPR model. Interventionists were trained with researcher-designed videos. Interventionist fidelity to training…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Intervention, Participatory Research, African Americans
Indonesian-German Bicultural Literacy Comprehension: The Students' Inference Perspective
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Aini, Desti Nur; Laksono, Kisyani; Ridwan, Agus – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2021
To comprehend a text, one needs to understand the relationship of various elements in it. The skill that helps connect the non-textual components to the textual ones is making inferences. This research aims to reveal different types of inferences made by the students with German-language proficiency of level B1. A qualitative research approach was…
Descriptors: Indonesian, German, Biculturalism, Literacy
Reading as the Interpretation of Signs
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Dressman, Mark – Reading Research Quarterly, 2016
This study examines the challenges of analyzing texts that are multimodal--that is, combining more than one mode of communication, such as written text, images, video, and/or audio--and considers the theoretical and practical implications of two very different approaches. The more common current approach, which adapts the work of Halliday and…
Descriptors: Multimedia Materials, Content Analysis, Intermode Differences, Linguistic Theory
Writing Development: What Does a Decade of NAPLAN Data Reveal?
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Christine Jackson; Lucy Lu; Peter Knapp; Wai Yin Wan; Olivia Groves – Australian Education Research Organisation Limited, 2022
This report discusses AERO's 2022 analysis of student writing data -- the most extensive investigation into this area ever conducted in Australia. AERO's researchers analysed more than 10 million NAPLAN writing results, spanning 2011 to 2021, and 366 samples of students' NAPLAN writing. Overall, our research suggests that students' writing skills…
Descriptors: Literacy, National Competency Tests, Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students
Writing Development: What Does a Decade of NAPLAN Data Reveal? Summary
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Christine Jackson; Lucy Lu; Peter Knapp; Wai Yin Wan; Olivia Groves – Australian Education Research Organisation Limited, 2022
In 2022 Australian Education Research Organisation (AERO) researchers analysed more than 10 million NAPLAN writing results, spanning 2011 to 2021, and 366 samples of students' NAPLAN writing. Overall, the research suggests that students' writing skills have declined over 7 years (2011 to 2018), with many high school students significantly behind…
Descriptors: Literacy, National Competency Tests, Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students