NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 3 results Save | Export
Reading and Interpretive Response to Literary Text: Drawing upon Sociocultural Perspective
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Blue, Elfreda V. – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2012
Students read text through the sociocultural perspective from which they emerge. They interpret the text that is read through personal and cultural cues, through experiences acquired within a particular cultural context. When no cultural cues are familiar, students have difficulty identifying with and understanding literary text. In…
Descriptors: African American Students, Middle School Students, Sociocultural Patterns, Reader Text Relationship
Sociocultural Factors and Achievement among Hispanic Children with Exceptionalities.
Rodriquez, Richard F. – Journal of Educational Issues of Language Minority Students, 1991
A study of 50 elementary age Mexican-American, learning-disabled children and their parents was undertaken to determine whether sociocultural factors contribute to achievement test scores as they do to intelligence scores. Sociocultural variance reflecting family acculturation level is found to be related to achievement test performance. (24…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Achievement Tests, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Context
Becoming Literate in English as a Second Language.
Goldman, Susan R., Ed.; Trueba, Henry T., Ed. – 1987
A collection of articles on English-as-a-Second-Language literacy and literacy education include: "Contextual Issues in the Study of Second Language Literacy" (Susan R. Goldman); "Mexican Adult Literacy: New Directions for Immigrants" (Concha Delgado-Gaitan); "Factors Affecting Development of Second Language Literacy" (Richard Duran); "Reading in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Age Differences, Bilingualism