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Charlton, Emma; Cliff Hodges, Gabrielle; Pointon, Pam; Nikolajeva, Maria; Spring, Erin; Taylor, Liz; Wyse, Dominic – Education 3-13, 2014
This paper considers how children perceive and represent their placed-related identities through reading and writing. It reports on the findings of an 18-month interdisciplinary project, based at Cambridge University Faculty of Education, which aimed to consider children's place-related identities through their engagement with, and creation of,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reader Text Relationship, Interdisciplinary Approach, Geographic Location
Mattos, Monika Lauren – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Reading for pleasure is a topic often overlooked in literacy research. Given reading for pleasure's personal, academic, and social relevance, it should be considered a foreground factor in literacy studies. This case study draws from a sociocultural approach and uses Third Space Theory and Rosenblatt's Transactional Theory of Reading to explore…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Adolescent Attitudes, Recreational Reading
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Rodriguez, Brenda Cecilia Padilla; Armellini, Alejandro – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2015
Although interaction is recognised as a key element for learning, its incorporation in online courses can be challenging. The interaction equivalency theorem provides guidelines: Meaningful learning can be supported as long as one of three types of interactions (learner-content, learner-teacher and learner-learner) is present at a high level. This…
Descriptors: Interaction, Online Courses, Theories, Teacher Student Relationship
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Parker, Mary; Hurry, Jane – Educational Review, 2007
Research suggests that children's understanding of text can be improved by the explicit teaching of those comprehension strategies that are used implicitly by skilled readers, particularly the use of self-regulating strategies to generate questions about text. This study of the teaching of comprehension in 51 London Key Stage 2 classrooms explores…
Descriptors: Inferences, Reading Comprehension, Questioning Techniques, Reader Text Relationship
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Christie, Frances – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2005
This paper reports on an analysis of the assessment principles used in marking students' written texts in the UK. It considers the assessment advice offered markers with respect to two stories written by 14 year old students in the Key Stage 3 English test in England. The observations offered on the written texts are shown to be general and…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Grammar