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Granados, Adrián; Lorenzo-Espejo, Antonio; Lorenzo, Francisco – Language and Education, 2023
This study describes academic literacy development during mid-adolescence, when learners need to adjust to the demands of academic discourse as a gateway to linguistic adulthood. Unlike most research to date, which is cross-sectional and detached from disciplinary content, this study provides a two-year longitudinal description of academic…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Literacy Education, Longitudinal Studies, History Instruction
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Ekaterina Tour; Marianne Turner; Anne Keary; Khanh-Linh Tran-Dang – Language and Education, 2024
It has been widely recognised that plurilingual pedagogy offers many benefits both for language learning and learning in general. However, in contexts where the linguistic profile of students is diverse, it can still be challenging for teachers to view working with the language resources of their students as feasible. In this article, we discuss…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Multiple Literacies, Correlation, Teaching Methods
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Dagenais, Diane; Toohey, Kelleen; Bennett Fox, Alexa; Singh, Angelpreet – Language and Education, 2017
In this article, we explain how recent research on multilingualism, multilingual education, and multimodality informs our thinking about the use of "ScribJab," a multilingual iPad application and website ("ScribJab.com"), which enables users to compose, illustrate, and narrate stories in two languages. Drawing on excerpts from…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Handheld Devices, Web Sites, Writing (Composition)
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Wang, Xiqiao – Language and Education, 2017
The study is situated in a bridge writing course that serves multilingual international students during their first year in college. Based on interviews with 36 Chinese international students and detailed tracing of one focal student's literacy activities, this study examines the social production of a translocal literacy learning space that spans…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Computer Mediated Communication, Writing Instruction, Introductory Courses
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Marsh, Jackie – Language and Education, 2006
This paper outlines a research project in which three- and four-year-old children in one nursery engaged with editing software to create short animated films. Research questions were related to the knowledge and understanding of multimodal texts that the children developed in the activity, the skills they demonstrated in undertaking the animation…
Descriptors: Media Literacy, Animation, Young Children, Nursery Schools
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Walton, Marion – Language and Education, 2007
This paper presents a multimodal discourse analysis of children using "drill-and-practice" literacy software at a primary school in the Western Cape, South Africa. The children's interactions with the software are analysed. The software has serious limitations which arise from the global political economy of the educational software…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Discourse Analysis, Computer Software, National Curriculum