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Moon, Brian – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2014
The capacity of secondary school teachers to support general literacy and to teach discipline-specific literacy skills depends upon their personal literacy competence. Diagnostic testing of 203 secondary teaching undergraduates at one Australian university revealed deficiencies in personal literacy competence that could affect their future…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Undergraduate Students, Reading Skills, Writing Skills
Mitchell, Felicia – Online Submission, 2005
The purpose of this presentation is to encourage college teachers of writing, inside and outside Appalachia, to look at dialect-based errors in a more expansive way even as they help students to make better choices about standard usage. The discussion, which is presented within the context of a socio-cultural perspective on bias in perceptions of…
Descriptors: North American English, Sociolinguistics, Language Acquisition, Writing Instruction