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Download full textLewine, Richard; Warnecke, Ashlee; Davis, Darlene; Sommers, Alison; Manley, Kayla; Caleb, Ben – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2019
Individuals entering college from disadvantaged economic backgrounds often face multiple obstacles to successful academic performance. Nonetheless, many such students are successful. In this study, we explore the personal characteristics of students from poverty who do well academically in comparison to their economic peers who were less…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Predictor Variables, Academic Achievement, Grade Point Average
Direct linkJohnson, Eric J.; Avineri, Netta; Johnson, David Cassels – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2017
Hart and Risley's (1995) concept of a "word gap" (aka "language gap") is widely used to describe inferior cognitive development and lower academic achievement as by-products of the language patterns of families from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. In recent decades, this line of deficit research has proliferated and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Academic Achievement, Language Patterns, Economically Disadvantaged
Junqueira, Eduardo S. – Language and Education, 2008
This article presents the contextualised interpretive analysis of communicative practices (artefacts including a song and a comic strip) developed by economically disadvantaged secondary students from two Brazilian public schools. Students' uses of standard and popular languages stretch and problematise social and cultural constructions about what…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Sociocultural Patterns, High School Students, Economically Disadvantaged
