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Assessing Children in Kindergarten: The Narrowing of Language, Culture and Identity in the Testing Era
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Yoon, Haeny S. – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2015
In contemporary kindergarten classrooms, children's literacy abilities are often assessed by tests used to determine a child's "readiness" for school. Readiness often means letter identification, phonemic awareness, letter-writing, and other functions related to language mechanics. This paper investigates the assessment tools (both…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, School Readiness, Learning Readiness, Student Evaluation
Representing Voices from the Life-World in Evidence-Based Practice
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Kovarsky, Dana – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2008
Background: Current models of evidence-based practice marginalize and even silence the voices of those who are the potential beneficiaries of assessment and intervention. These missing voices can be found in the reflections of clients on their own life-world experiences. Aims: This paper examines how voices from the life-world are silenced in…
Descriptors: Intervention, Phonemes, Morphemes, Ethnography
Constructing Knowledge in an Organization: The Role of Interview Notes.
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Schneider, Barbara – Management Communication Quarterly, 2001
Takes a discourse-analytic approach to study the research that two managers carried out in an educational institution to produce and legitimate knowledge used for decision making. Shows that the writing and reading of notes taken during interviews conducted as part of the research was a crucial step in the construction of the knowledge in which…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Discourse Analysis, Elementary Education, Ethnography
Theory and Method in Discourse Analysis: What Context for What Unit?
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Schiffrin, Deborah – Language & Communication, 1997
Illustrates the interdependence between theory and method by showing how the methods underling even a relatively simple analysis of discourse are imbued with theoretical import. Focuses on two methodological decisions that are a standard part of the set of discourse analytic tools: what is context and what is the unit of analysis? (39 references)…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Decision Making, Discourse Analysis, Ethnography
Classroom Interactive Practices for Developing L2 Literacy: A Microethnographic Study of Two Beginning Adult Learners of English
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Hellermann, John – Applied Linguistics, 2006
Using methods from conversation analysis, this microethnographic longitudinal case study traces the development of interactional competence which results from adult learners' socialization into literacy events in a modified Sustained Silent Reading (mSSR) program. The investigation focuses on two learners who participated in the mSSR program in an…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Adult Literacy, Ethnography, English (Second Language)
Academic Writing in a Second Language: Essays on Research and Pedagogy.
Belcher, Diane, Ed.; Braine, George, Ed. – 1995
Essays on research and teaching of academic writing in English as a second language include:"When Practice Doesn't Make Perfect: The Case of a Graduate ESL Student" (Melanie Schneider, Naomi K. Fujishima); "Good Writing: I Know It When I See It" (Ilona Leki); "Redefining the Task: An Ethnographic Examination of Writing and Response in Graduate…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Business Administration Education, Case Studies, Chinese