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Tan, Dannah Neriah L.; Mante-Estacio, Ma. Joahna – TEFLIN Journal: A publication on the teaching and learning of English, 2021
Maintaining students' engagement with reading texts that reflect their background knowledge has positive effect on their comprehension. Culturally relevant materials provide more equitable opportunities to students, in the sense that more of them can reap the benefits of being able to connect to the text (Christ & Sharma, 2018). This article…
Descriptors: High School Students, Reader Text Relationship, Learner Engagement, Cultural Relevance
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Gibson, Simone – Journal of Negro Education, 2016
This article explores the ways some adolescent African American girls engage with urban fiction, a genre often maligned as "trash" literature. This project sought to understand the appeal of the genre as well as adolescent African American girls' perceptions about the texts. Based on findings, which suggest that participants are engaging…
Descriptors: African Americans, Females, Urban Areas, Fiction