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Strauss, Annaly M.; Bipath, Keshni – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2020
Background: This article is based on a study that aimed at finding out how pre-primary teachers integrate directed play into literacy teaching and learning. Play is a platform through which young children acquire language. Aim: This study uses an action research approach to understand how guided play benefits incidental reading and expands…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Sight Vocabulary, Word Recognition, Play
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Knoll, Tara – BU Journal of Graduate Studies in Education, 2021
English Language Learners, such as my Hutterian students, struggle to overcome a variety of learning barriers. I examined a variety of instructional methods to determine what would help them. The first aspect I explored was how English Language Learners acquire literacy skills. I also investigated how to expand my students' background knowledge.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Barriers, Teaching Methods
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Jiang, Shuaipu – Commission for International Adult Education, 2022
Classroom instruction in China and in the United States have sharp differences. Typically, constructivist learning theory shapes American classroom instruction whereas Confucian educational culture shapes Chinese classroom instruction. Furthermore, typically, Chinese classrooms adopt a direct instructional approach whereas American classrooms…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Constructivism (Learning), Confucianism, Asian Culture
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Chlapana, Elissavet; Tafa, Eufimia – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2014
This study examined the impact of direct instruction and interactive instruction on immigrant kindergarten children's vocabulary learning during storybook reading. (In the present study the terms "immigrants" and "second language learners" are used alternatively meaning kindergarteners from immigrant families who are in the…
Descriptors: Direct Instruction, Teaching Methods, Kindergarten, Vocabulary Development
Duran, Elva – Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, Ltd, 2012
Students whose first language is not English are the fastest-growing group in public schools in all regions of the United States. Almost 10 million children between the ages of five and 17 live in the homes and communities in which a language other than English in spoken and presently most schools in the U.S. are under-educating many English…
Descriptors: Direct Instruction, Academic Discourse, Public Schools, Speech Communication
Broer van Arragon, Kathleen – Online Submission, 2003
The focus of this study will be on the intersection of the following domains: Second Language Acquisition research on cohesion and coherence, discourse acquisition of young children, the effect of text form-focused instruction on student non-fiction writing and the impact of schema theory on student decision-making during the writing process.
Descriptors: Direct Instruction, Writing Instruction, Second Language Learning, English Language Learners