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Julia J. Yi; Karen A. Erickson – Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 2024
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the occurrence of preservice literacy coursework in a sample of graduate speech-language pathology programs in the United States and to investigate the relationship between the likelihood that programs offered literacy coursework and (a) geographical region, (b) Carnegie Classification of research…
Descriptors: Literacy, Speech Language Pathology, Intervention, Geographic Regions
Cotton, D. R. E.; Winter, J.; Miller, W.; Dalla Valle, L. – Environmental Education Research, 2018
University rankings are increasingly important internationally, and in the UK include a sustainability 'Green League'. However, there is little evidence about experiences of studying in 'sustainable universities'. We report an empirical study at five universities in varied positions in the Green League, exploring students' energy literacy,…
Descriptors: College Students, Energy, Literacy, Knowledge Level
Dual Language as White Property: Examining a Secondary Bilingual-Education Program and Latinx Equity
Chávez-Moreno, Laura C. – American Educational Research Journal, 2021
This critical race ethnography examines a secondary-level dual-language (DL) program, a bilingual-education model thought to provide Latinxs educational equity. Drawing from a three-stage recursive analytic approach, I present evidence that a DL program's policies and practices valued offering Latinx youth biliterate schooling only so long as DL…
Descriptors: Race, Critical Theory, Bilingualism, Bilingual Education Programs
Getahun, Dawit Asrat; Hammad, Waheed; Robinson-Pant, Anna – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2021
There is a growing body of research on the impact of English-medium publication and associated higher education regimes on knowledge construction. However, not much is known about how academics outside the Global North make decisions about how and where to publish. Through a comparative case study, this article sets out to explore how academics in…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Writing for Publication, Periodicals, Decision Making
Clark, Margaret M. – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2017
Languages differ in the way that speech and meaning are represented in written form: in English, the correspondences are variable. Thus, in learning to read in English there is need for an approach that combines alphabetic decoding and a mastery of sight vocabulary. Teaching children to read should develop from an analysis of the skills and…
Descriptors: Literacy, Written Language, Speech Communication, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
Murray, Neil; Muller, Amanda – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2019
Students entering English-medium universities frequently struggle to cope with the language demands of their degree programmes, despite having met the English language entry conditions stipulated by their receiving institutions. This can have significant repercussions for the teaching-learning process, for the student experience and for…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language of Instruction, College Students
Bowen, Lauren Marshall – College English, 2012
The magazine of the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) often relies on problematic rhetorics that privilege youth-centered ideals and create limited representations of older adults' literacy in digital times. These rhetorics rest on a metaphor of repair, which labels aging adults as primarily bodies in need of fixing or protection. In…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Literacy, Technology, Cultural Context
Walton, Marion; Pallitt, Nicola – Language and Education, 2012
Discussions of "game literacy" focus on the informal learning and literacies associated with games but seldom address the diversity in young people's gaming practices, and the highly differentiated technologies of digital gaming in use. We use available survey data to show how, in South Africa, income inequalities influence consumption…
Descriptors: Literacy, Informal Education, Educational Games, Young Adults
Riazantseva, Anastasia – Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2012
The purpose of this case-study was to understand the relationship between success in college and L2 academic writing of three Generation 1.5 Russian-speaking middle-class college students and to describe the factors that could have contributed to the levels of academic literacy that these students developed. The following research questions were…
Descriptors: College Students, Middle Class, Socialization, Reputation
Rose, Caleb P. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
KIPP Delta College Preparatory School (KIPP: DCPS), an open-enrollment charter school, opened in 2002 in Helena, Arkansas. Since its opening, KIPP: DCPS students have consistently outperformed their peers in the Helena/West Helena School district, and moreover, recent test scores suggest that white students and minority students are achieving at…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, College Preparation, Academic Achievement, High Achievement
Bascom, Jonathan – Review of International Geographical Education Online, 2011
This study extends analysis of geographic literacy further by examining the relationship of geographic knowledge with the primary goal of geographic educators--cultivation of cultural understanding and moral sensitivity for global citizenry. The main aim is to examine contributors to moral formation during the university years based on a survey…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Geography, Geography Instruction, Multivariate Analysis
Riamliw, Jakraphan – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation investigated the concepts of literacy held by Thai teachers of university-level Foundation English courses, the connection between concepts of literacy and EFL literacy instruction, teachers' literacy-teaching practices, and the challenges these teachers faced in teaching EFL literacy. The relationship between the concepts of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Literacy, Second Language Instruction
McKeown, Eamonn – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2006
In this article, I examine patterns of literacy use in the daily life a rural community in the Papua New Guinea highlands. It is demonstrated that many of these practices do not correspond to the ways in which agencies responsible for imparting literacy, particularly the local school, intend. Instead, village concepts of prestige, chance, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reputation, Literacy, Rural Areas
Levin, Joel R. – Educational Psychologist, 2008
This article focuses on the early research domains investigated by Michael Pressley, along with the integrations and initiatives that were inspired by them. These research domains include verbal and imagery elaboration memory strategies, and developmental aspects of them; interrogative elaboration; pictorial strategies for language and literacy…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Educational Psychology, Memory, Literacy

Olson, David R. – Journal of Communication, 1981
Appraises the academic reception of McLuhan's ideas. Suggests how his insights can be applied within a systematic research tradition. (The author uses his own research on the bias of speech and writing as an example.) (PD)
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Higher Education, Literacy