Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Keyword
-
- Books (1)
- Clubs (1)
- Cultural awareness (1)
- Cultural pluralism (1)
- Culturally relevant information (1)
-
- Diversity (1)
- English language learners (1)
- Ethnic diversity (1)
- Integrated reading and writing (1)
- Middle school students (1)
- Minority group teachers (1)
- Multicultural education (1)
- Novels (1)
- Perceived needs (1)
- Preservice teachers (1)
- Racial composition (1)
- Racial relations (1)
- Reading (1)
- School demography (1)
- Student diversity (1)
- Teacher challenges (1)
- Teacher educators (1)
Articles 1 - 2 of 2
Full-Text Articles in Education
Integrated Reading And Writing: A Case Of Korean English Language Learners, Hyonsuk Cho, Janina Brutt-Griffler
Integrated Reading And Writing: A Case Of Korean English Language Learners, Hyonsuk Cho, Janina Brutt-Griffler
Teaching & Learning Faculty Publications
This study reports Korean English language learners’ perceived needs concerning their learning of reading and writing and how the integrated reading and writing instruction impacts their reading comprehension and summary-writing abilities. The study also delineates teacher’s challenges faced during the instruction. A total of 93 students in a middle school in Korea participated in a needs survey, and 69 students at three proficiency levels received the integrated instruction. The study found that students desired extra help on their writing to gain balanced English competence; also they wanted to learn reading and writing together. After the intervention, students at intermediate and …
Mirroring Ourselves: Teacher Educators Of Color Reading Multicultural Texts, Yonghee Suh, Kaavonia Hinton
Mirroring Ourselves: Teacher Educators Of Color Reading Multicultural Texts, Yonghee Suh, Kaavonia Hinton
Teaching & Learning Faculty Publications
During the last few decades, U.S. classrooms have experienced dramatic demographic changes. This article is based on the results of a larger self-study in which four teacher educators of color participated in a book club designed to discuss the pedagogical possibilities of Yoko Kawashima Watkins' "So Far from the Bamboo Grove" (1986) and its sequel, "My Brother, My Sister, and I" (1994), in their teacher education courses. Filling the gap in research, the authors focused on responding to the following questions: (1) What happens when teacher educators of color talk about a multicultural text? How do they read the multicultural …