Interdisciplinary curriculum: Using poetry to integrate reading and writing across the curriculum

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 36-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
William P. Bintz ◽  
Gumiko Monobe
2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (21) ◽  
pp. 47-53
Author(s):  
Wilson E. Genao

ResumenEste trabajo consiste en una investigación sobre la implementación del enfoque de la escritura por proceso como un mecanismo posible para mejorar la producción de ensayos expositivos académicos. La investigación se sustenta en la visión de la lectura y la escritura como prácticas sociales donde se ponen en juego distintas actividades cognitivas y que incluye tres procesos básicos que interactúan entre sí: la planificación, la textualización y la revisión. En el artículo se desarrolla el proceso llevado a cabo en el marco del Diplomado en Lectura y Escritura a través del Currículo en el Nivel Superior, para la implementación de las estrategias que posibilitaron impactar favorablemente en el desempeño académico de los participantes en la asignatura de Historia de las Ideas Políticas.AbstractThis thesis is an investigation into the implementation of the process writing approach as a way to improve the production of academic expository writing. The research was based on the view of reading and writing as social practices in which come into play different cognitive activities and that it includes three basic processes that interact with each other: planning, textualization and review. In this article the process undertaken in the course “Reading and Writing Across the Curriculum in Higher Education”, to implement strategies that enabled a favorable impact on the academic performance of participants in the subject of History of Political Ideas.


Author(s):  
Teresa Benítez ◽  
Norma Barletta ◽  
Diana Chamorro ◽  
Jorge Mizuno ◽  
Gillian Moss

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-57
Author(s):  
Rachel Whittaker ◽  
Isabel García Parejo

AbstractThis article gives two perspectives on an action-research literacy project based on the pedagogy of Reading to Learn (R2L). The project, organized in a cascade structure, introduced the functional linguistics-based pedagogy for reading and writing across the curriculum to national teams of key educators, who then took it to practising teachers, who used it with their pupils. The impact of the project on the three groups of 'learners' involved was then evaluated through questionnaires for educators and teachers and reading and writing tests. Knowledge of the texts of their subjects, and of the R2L interaction cycle, changed participants' practice, resulting in student inclusion and improved written production. The paper first presents a broad view of the project and results in its European context, and, second, a more detailed picture of one of the countries involved, Spain, including examples of implementation by participating teachers, their responses to the pedagogy, and student up-take in samples of their texts. The paper closes with reflections and future directions the project is taking in Spain, opening to new contexts for the R2L pedagogy.


e-TEALS ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (s1) ◽  
pp. 23-40
Author(s):  
Aoife Ahern ◽  
Rachel Whittaker ◽  
Isabel Blecua Sánchez

Abstract This article introduces a literacy programme based on a linguistic approach to teaching reading and writing across the curriculum, Reading to Learn (Rose, “Reading to Learn: Accelerating Learning”; Rose and Martin), with proven effectiveness for accelerating literacy development in both the L1 (e.g. Rose and Acevedo, among other studies) and for L2 in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) and programmes. Underlying the pedagogy are powerful theories of language, educational psychology and sociology which are applied to text analysis, lesson preparation and classroom interaction around reading and writing. Teachers starting to use the pedagogy see immediate results in students’ engagement and learning, and the written texts they produce. The pedagogy is based on a functional analysis of a text from the curriculum – its structure and the way its language makes meaning in that subject-, and on scaffolding/ modelling the processes of reading and writing with the whole class. In this paper, we offer a brief presentation of some strategies from the R2L pedagogy, and provide examples of text analysis, teacher preparation and application in state bilingual schools in Spain.


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