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Writing Experiences of Community College Students with Self-Reported Writing Anxieties and Linguistic Insecurity: A Perspective for College Counselors
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Holland, Rochelle – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2013
This explanatory case study researched the writing experiences of 11 community college students who differed subculturally and who were all part of the African diasporic community. The theoretical perspectives used for this study were Arthur Chickering's (1969) classical concept of academic competence and community dialect theory (Baxter &…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Educational Attainment, Academic Achievement, Black Dialects
"Imagining the Moon": Critical Pedagogy, Discourse Tensions, and the Adult Basic Writing Classroom
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Siha, Alfred A. Z. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this qualitative action research study was to explore how critical pedagogy can foster writing competency and critical consciousness among adult basic writing students in a community college writing classroom. To this end, critical pedagogy and related critical discourses were used to theoretically frame this study. These theories…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Teaching Methods, Writing Instruction, Adult Students
No More a Stranger: The Development of Academic Literacy in Adult English Language Learners in Community College
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Thompson, Diane S. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This purpose of this study was to identify how adult ELL community college students perceive their experience in the development of academic literacy, specifically academic writing, and to explore their perceptions of the factors, attitudes, and experiences that have facilitated their development of that level of academic literacy. To address this…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, English for Academic Purposes, Community Colleges, Educational Experience