The use of literacy bags promotes parental involvement in Chinese children’s literacy learning in the English language

2013 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
SuHua Huang
Keyword(s):  
Parental Involvement ◽  
English Language ◽  
Literacy Learning ◽  
Children's Literacy ◽  
Literacy Bags

scholarly journals Rethink about Heritage Language Learning: A Case Study of Children’s Mandarin Chinese learning at a Community Language School in Ontario, Canada

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoxiao Du
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Heritage Language ◽  
Literacy Learning ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Knowledge Mobilization ◽  
Heritage Language Learning ◽  
Children's Literacy ◽  
And Migration

On-going knowledge mobilization and migration take place on a daily basis in the globalized world. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural country with a large number of visitors and immigrants. One in five Canadian speaks a foreign language other than English and French (Postmedia News, 2012). This case study examined six-year-old Chinese children’s heritage language learning in a community school from multiliteracies perspective using observations, interviews, and artefacts to understand children’s literacy learning. The findings indicated that Chinese children’s literacy learning was not in the traditional repetitive way but involved multimodal communication at school. Useful implications are made for heritage language educators regarding ways to support meaningful heritage language teaching and learning.  

scholarly journals The ELALC-SEK Project: Developing English language library classrooms to support literacy learning in the early childhood and primary English language programs at a multilingual Spanish school

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia R. Houston
Keyword(s):  
Language Arts ◽  
English Language ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Literacy Learning ◽  
School Libraries ◽  
Language Programs ◽  
Involved Field ◽  
Western Kentucky ◽  
English Instruction ◽  
Western Kentucky University

Two consultants from Western Kentucky University developed a proposal for and then assisted with the implementation of English Language Arts Library Classrooms in a private Spanish school near Barcelona, Spain. The intent of the project was to enhance the English instruction in the primary grades program at the school. The project involved field observations and a literature review of school libraries in Spain, proposal development, technical assistance, and training in library organization, administration and collection development.

Designing for Purpose-Driven Technology Use Among Preservice English Teachers

2020 ◽  
pp. 519-546
Author(s):  
Jennifer M. Higgs
Keyword(s):  
Preservice Teachers ◽  
Tool Use ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
English Language ◽  
Teacher Educator ◽  
Literacy Learning ◽  
Project Based Learning ◽  
Digital Tool ◽  
Language Arts Teachers ◽  
Arts Teachers

This chapter reports on a case study of a 12-week technology course for preservice English language arts teachers in which the teacher educator attempted to shift away from tool-centric approaches by foregrounding purpose-driven tool use and project-based learning experiences. Findings from analyses of classroom, interview, and survey data suggested that specific design choices helped to promote purpose-driven technology use for literacy learning. These included the instructor's articulation and modeling of a “pedagogy first” stance that centered pedagogical reasons for digital tool use and affordances of digital tools, and the organization of a project-based learning environment that engaged preservice teachers in hands-on exploration of digitally mediated ELA learning through continual cycles of making, sharing, and reflecting on digital artifacts.

Cohesion strategies and genre in expository prose: An analysis of the writing of children of ethnolinguistic cultural groups

Pragmatics ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 299-324
Author(s):  
Helen R. Abadiano
Keyword(s):  
Sixth Grade ◽  
Literacy Learning ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Groups ◽  
Literacy Practice ◽  
Expository Prose ◽  
Children's Literacy ◽  
Classroom Literacy ◽  
Mainstream Culture

In most societies the ability to write has become a significant criterion in judging one's "success or "failure" in becoming literate. This paper focuses on the classroom literacy practice called "writing," inasmuch as learning to write in a specific kind of way is part and parcel of children's literacy learning expectations. It is based on a study which examined cohesion patterns found in expository writing samples of sixth grade urban African American, urban Appalachian, and mainstream culture children attending a middle school in a large midwestern urban school system in the United States. This paper challenges the prevailing notion that ethnicity, social class and language variation influence the quality of writing these children produce.

scholarly journals Saudi Parental Involvement in EFL Students’ Achievement via Edmodo

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 33
Author(s):  
Areej A. Alsanosi ◽  
Thuraya A. Alabsi
Keyword(s):  
Parental Involvement ◽  
Private School ◽  
English Language ◽  
Intermediate Stage ◽  
Integration Of Technology ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Role Of Parents ◽  
Main Components ◽  
High Level

Parental involvement is a key predictor of students’ success in academic and general life. Moreover, the integration of technology has had a massive influence on the learning process and in facilitating parents’ involvement. The current study aims to explore the role of parents in the achievements of English as a foreign language (EFL) learners via Edmodo, which is a platform consisting of three important main components. A descriptive method is used to conduct the research with a sample of 50 parents of female students at the intermediate stage of King Abdul Aziz private school, and using a questionnaire as an instrument. The results indicated a high level of parental involvement in supporting their daughters’ progress. Moreover, parents were pleased when the teachers kept them informed about their daughters’ progress in English. Communication with the school and supervision of homework had a positive effect on the quality of learning. The results revealed that parental involvement enhanced English language skills and increased learners’ motivation to work hard. In addition, the study discovers the positive perception of parents regarding the use of Edmodo.

scholarly journals Artists as catalysts: the ethical and political possibilities of teaching artists in literacy classrooms

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 447-462
Author(s):  
Anne Crampton ◽  
Cynthia Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Critical Literacy ◽  
English Language ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Human Subjects ◽  
Literacy Learning ◽  
Teaching Artists ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Critical Scholarship ◽  
English Classroom ◽  
Language Arts Classrooms

Purpose This study aims to discuss the ethical and political possibilities offered by the presence of teaching artists (TAs) and visual artwork in racially and culturally diverse high school literacy (English Language Arts) classrooms. Design/methodology/approach This study explores episodes from two separate ethnographic studies that were conducted in one teacher’s critical literacy classroom across a span of several years. This study uses a transliteracies approach (Stornaiulo et al., 2017) to think about “meaning-making at the intersection of human subjects and materials” (Kontovourki et al., 2019); the study also draws on critical scholarship on art and making (Ngo et al., 2017; Vossoughi et al., 2016). The TA, along with the materials and processes of artmaking, decentered the teacher and literacy itself, inviting in new social realities. Findings TAs’ collective interpretation of existing artwork and construction of new works made visible how both human and nonhuman bodies co-produced “new ways of feeling and being with others” (Zembylas, 2017, p. 402). This study views these artists as catalysts capable of provoking, or productively disrupting, the everyday practices of classrooms. Social implications Both studies demonstrated new ways of feeling, being and thinking about difference, bringing to the forefront momentary possibilities and impossibilities of complex human and nonhuman intra-actions. The provocations flowing from the visual artwork and the dialogue swirling around the work presented opportunities for emergent and unexpected experiences of literacy learning. Originality/value This work is valuable in exploring the boundaries of literacy learning with the serious inclusion of visual art in an English classroom. When the TAs guided both interpretation and production of artwork, they affected and were affected by the becoming happening in the classroom. This study suggests how teaching bodies, students and artwork pushed the transformative potential of everyday school settings.

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