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English as a Site of Cultural Negotiation and Contestation
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Turvey, Anne; Yandell, John; Ali, Leila – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2012
We offer this piece as an essay, a dialogic, many-voiced attempt to represent the tensions and contradictions in our work and the work that goes on in London schools. Locating our work within a polyphonic, narrative-based tradition of inquiry into practice (Burgess & Hardcastle, 1991; Doecke & McClenaghan, 2011; Parr, 2010; van de Ven…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Instruction, Grade 7, Academic Standards
Children's Interactions in Sustaining Writing: Studies in an English Primary School.
Shafer, Robert E. – 1980
Ten six- and seven-year-old British children were chosen for case study investigation of the importance of children's interactions with each other and with their teacher in launching writing through sustained speech. The school was identified by educational experts as one of the "progressive" or "informal" variety, where…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Foreign Countries
The Teaching of Initial Literacy--How Do Teachers Do It? A Report on the Survey of the Teaching of Initial Literacy from the Centre for Research in Language and Communication.
Cato, Vivienne; And Others – 1992
A study investigated the range of methods and approaches used by teachers in Year 2 in teaching reading and writing, and the assumptions underlying these approaches. Headteachers of 122 nationally representative maintained schools in England and Wales completed a brief questionnaire giving mostly statistical information about their school. A…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Environment, Emergent Literacy, Evaluation Problems