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Unequal Englishes In A Chinese College English Textbook: A Critical Discourse Analysis, Jing He, Adcharawan Buripakdi

International Journal for Research in Education

The phenomenon of Unequal Englishes pervades Chinese contexts; however, more can be done to find out how it is embedded in Chinese college English textbooks. A study of Chinese college English listening and speaking textbooks shows that there are only few surface manifestations of Unequal Englishes in these textbooks which might be explained by the Chinese government’s deliberate ideological control of English learning, thus confirming profound political influences on the production of English textbooks in China to a certain degree. This study, however, conducts a Critical Discourse Analysis which surfaces manifestations of Unequal Englishes in a specific lesson of a …

Grammar Instruction Embedded Within Writing Instruction In The Secondary Ela Classroom, Erika Scheu-Millek

Culminating Experience Projects

Available research indicates that American students are underperforming in the area of writing. Grammar is the foundation of the English language, so it follows that an understanding of the language system is inherent in the act of writing. Grammar instruction, however, has been largely absent from American ELA classrooms for the past half century. This project examines the research which supports grammar instruction as part of the writing process and synthesizes the most promising research findings into a writing unit for 11th and 12th grade students. This unit includes a genre-based framework for instruction, directed writing, sentence combining, and instructional …

Trauma-Informed Teaching Of Literature To Multilingual Learner Refugees: In Search For Balance Between Cultural Responsiveness And Curriculum Sensitivity, Ekaterina Midgette, Jordan González

Journal of Multilingual Education Research

The unprecedented refugee crisis since the onset of the pandemic changed the demographics of the student population and recontextualized culturally responsive literacy education. Many Multilingual Learner refugee students entering our classrooms bring with them experiences of mass exodus that have direct implications for teaching and learning. It is imperative to identify culturally responsive pedagogies that balance cultural representation with sensitivity toward multifaceted trauma endured by Multilingual Learner refugees. Using an ecological perspective as a theoretical framework, we examine tensions and critical considerations in choosing culturally responsive children’s and young adult literature as they apply to the context of three contemporary …

Addressing Tensions In Textual Voice Construction, Marcela Ossa-Parra

Journal of Multilingual Education Research

Guiding historically minoritized students in their textual voice construction entails navigating the tensions between these white-dominant monolingual voices and the diverse voices they bring to the classroom. This conceptual paper presents an ecological voice-construction process model that sheds light on how writers negotiate external and internal expectations in their writing. These expectations are derived from the political, sociocultural, dialogic, and personal contexts in which voice construction is situated. The model establishes four interrelated processes for negotiating textual voice corresponding to each context: negotiating power relations and ideologies, entering the conversation, engaging the reader, and connecting with the self. This model …

Improving The High School And College Classroom Experience For Learners With Refugee Status: Theory, Practice, And Change., Kayte Thomas, Sara-Jean Lipmen

Journal of Applied Disciplines

Refugee populations are increasing globally, and children make up more than fifty percent of those displaced. Unique experiences that come with forced migration including fragmented education, trauma, family separation, grief, and adverse other effects can impact learning in the classroom for refugee students. Existing data indicates that schools lack sufficient protocols to meet the needs of students with refugee status who consistently face risks associated with ill-prepared learning environments, and therefore must rethink possibilities to address this. By adopting strategic decolonized approaches, educational leaders can create supportive environments which improve instructional methods and learning outcomes for these students as they …

Exploring Translanguaging And Identity Among Jordanian Graduate Students In Ontario, Mohamad Almashour

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

This study investigated the use of translanguaging strategies by Jordanian graduate students in Ontario, Canada, as a means of adjusting to the local language and culture. It further scrutinizes the influence of these practices on their identities. The study also probes into the potential opportunities and impediments that these students may encounter in higher educational establishments in Ontario.

Data collection was accomplished through semi-structured online interviews, which were subject to qualitative analysis to respond to the research queries. The analytical process was grounded in a theoretical framework combining sociocultural theory, critical literacy, and language ecology, thereby offering a profound understanding …

Liberation Education: A Strive To Make Literacy Instruction Meaningful For All Elementary School Students & Teachers, Cassandra K. Goodwin

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this conceptual research was to review literature on the implementation and the implications of liberation education in the elementary literacy classroom, specifically for students of color and white teachers in urban schools. This research discusses educational frameworks tied to liberation education and explores common themes that arise through the literature review. The importance of culturally responsive teaching, critical pedagogy, and multiliteracies pedagogy through literacy instruction is highlighted. Thorough teacher preparation, and active teacher engagement allow for student empowerment. Positive effects of liberation education through literacy for students and teachers are explored. Strides away from traditional teaching to …

Convocatoria 2022-2023

Revista Electrónica Leer, Escribir y Descubrir

No abstract provided.

Las Distintas Formas Del No Quiero, Maya Guilliem, Pablo Guilliem

Revista Electrónica Leer, Escribir y Descubrir

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Libro Como Refugio. Un Homenaje A Beatriz Soto Martínez, Hannia Miroslava Soto Hernández

Revista Electrónica Leer, Escribir y Descubrir

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Vivos En Su Corazón. Reseña De Visita A La Abuela. De Joaquín Bestard Vázquez, José Enrique Pérez Moreno

Revista Electrónica Leer, Escribir y Descubrir

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Álbum Familiar: Inserta Tus Fotografías Y Tu Infancia, Paulina Gabriela Arredondo Guzmán

Revista Electrónica Leer, Escribir y Descubrir

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Recuperando Los Lazos En Bs Ferrocarril: La Historia De Una Nueva Comunidad Lectora, Fernando Morales Ramírez

Revista Electrónica Leer, Escribir y Descubrir

Resumen

El siguiente artículo describe la experiencia sobre el proceso de reconstrucción de una comunidad lectora en torno a la BS Ferrocarril, biblioteca para niños y jóvenes, localizada en la ciudad de Oaxaca de Juárez, México, tras el cierre a causa de la pandemia por COVID-19 en 2020. Para tal efecto, se realizaron entrevistas al personal de la biblioteca, a la par de consultar las estadísticas de la afluencia de usuarios. El equipo describe los retos que han tenido que afrontar para generar una nueva comunidad, mencionando la importancia que los talleres y eventos han tenido para tal efecto.

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Lecturas Andantes: Una Experiencia Con Comunidades Lectoras Desde El Espacio Cultural Reflexionario Mocambo, En Veracruz, Sara Elena Benavides De León, Daniel Domínguez Cuenca, Mayra Goxcon Chacha

Revista Electrónica Leer, Escribir y Descubrir

Resumen

El presente texto pretende compartir la ruta seguida en Lecturas Andantes, un programa de intervención social que convoca a personas interesadas en vivir una experiencia de lectura expandida en común, encuentro, conversación y convivencia, mediante círculos de lectura simultáneos, que se realizan en ciclos semestrales, convocados desde 2016 por el Reflexionario Mocambo, espacio cultural vivo, en complicidad con la biblioteca pública universitaria, en Boca del Río, Veracruz, México.

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This text aims to share the route followed in Lecturas Andantes, a social intervention program that brings together people interested in living an expanded reading experience in common, meeting, conversation …

La Escuela, La Vida Y Las Experiencias Lectoras, Oiane Uruchurtu Espinosa

Revista Electrónica Leer, Escribir y Descubrir

Resumen

Las siguientes líneas profundizan en los planteamientos expuestos en el Coloquio Abierto de Literatura Aplicada de la Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla, en abril de 2023, donde el hilo conductor lo establece el título. Se plantea la importancia de tomar conciencia del contexto social y personal de los lectores o potenciales lectores en el marco de la escuela, pues los espacios, los tiempos y las realidades que rodean a las personas, pueden facilitar o dificultar las estrategias y dinámicas de promoción de la lectura en el marco escolar. Asimismo, la conjugación de las historias personales, con las dinámicas generadas a través …

¿Cómo Se Lee Un Recetario? Testimonio Y Memoria, María Luisa Rentería

Revista Electrónica Leer, Escribir y Descubrir

Resumen

¿Qué motiva a una persona, una familia o una comunidad a sentarse alrededor de la mesa después de vivir en contextos de violencia extrema? Algunos recetarios han compartido que el hecho de comer, cocinar y compartir ese espacio que discurre alrededor de la alimentación los ha ayudado a crear lazos de comunicación y resistencia frente a las crisis y eventos traumáticos. En este artículo recurriremos a la literacidad para interpretar la lectura de algunos recetarios, y así entender de qué otras formas debiéramos leerlos e interpretarlos. Revisaremos algunos que han sido escritos con el objetivo de contar narrativas, historias …

Narrativas Para Entrar Y Salir Del Mundo, Gregorio Hernández

Revista Electrónica Leer, Escribir y Descubrir

Resumen

En un mundo donde hasta lo más sólido se desvanece en el aire, unos buscan abrir los ojos para entrar y participar en el mundo, mientras otros intentan cerrarlos y poder salir. Leer libros y toda clase de textos es como pararnos ante espejos que nos devuelven imágenes diversas y contradictorias sobre nosotros mismos: lo que fuimos, lo que somos, y lo que podríamos o deberíamos ser y hacer en el mundo. ¿Leemos para saber, sentir y entrar al mundo?, ¿o leemos para no saber, no sentir y mejor salir del mundo? En esta charla exploramos algunas de las …

Editorial, Alma Carrasco Altamirano, Verónica Macías Andere

Revista Electrónica Leer, Escribir y Descubrir

No abstract provided.

Can Subaltern, Multilingual And Multidialectical Bodies Feel? An Aspirational Call For Undoing The Coloniality Of Affects In English Learning And Teaching, Jihea Maddamsetti

Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education

When Spivak (1988/2010) provocatively raised the question “Can the subaltern speak?” and concluded that they cannot, she did not mean that the subaltern literally or physically cannot speak. She meant that Western/Eurocentric/White ways of knowing and languaging produce colonial, epistemic violence that silences subaltern bodies.

In this conceptual paper, I pose a related question: “Can subaltern, multilingual and multidialectical bodies feel?” Little attention has been paid to understanding the affect of multilingual and multidialectical students during English Learning and Teaching (ELT) . As a teacher educator/researcher positioned within ELT in the white settler context of the U.S., I reach a …

Elementary Teachers' Perspectives On Teaching Reading Comprehension, Reid Smith, Pamela Snow, Tanya Serry, Lorraine Hammond

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

PURPOSE: We report findings from a survey of elementary teachers regarding reading instruction. The purpose was to examine teachers' beliefs about how children in the first 7 years of schooling develop reading comprehension skills and to characterize the self-reported practices and strategies they use to support children to comprehend connected text. METHOD: A web-based survey was used to collect data from 284 Australian elementary teachers about their beliefs and practices regarding reading comprehension instruction. Selected Likert-scale items were aggregated to determine the degree to which participants held "child-centered" or "content-centered" views of reading instruction. RESULTS: Australian elementary school teachers hold …