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Shanahan, Cynthia; Shanahan, Timothy; Misischia, Cynthia – Journal of Literacy Research, 2011
The purpose of this study is to describe educationally relevant differences in literacy use among three subject-matter disciplines--history, chemistry, and mathematics. These analyses were drawn from an investigation of the teaching of disciplinary literacy in high schools. The purpose of the overall project was to improve the literacy-teaching…
Descriptors: Literacy, Differences, Intellectual Disciplines, History
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Jacobs, Gloria E. – Journal of Literacy Research, 2006
The purpose of this study was to develop an understanding of adolescent use of instant messaging. Grounded in the New Literacy Studies stance that literacy is a social practice embedded in local contexts and informed by global ideologies (Street, 1995), I argue that participation in digital literacies such as instant messaging has implications for…
Descriptors: Electronic Mail, Computer Mediated Communication, Adolescents, Reader Text Relationship