The Interconnectedness between Adolescent Girls’ Home Literacy and Adolescent Girls’ School Literacy [PDF]
, 2011 Extensive research has been done in the area of home literacy. The research has found many connections to student school performance. adolescent girls’ However, the connection between home literacy of and school literacy has yet to be explored.
Flannery-Calder, Jody
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‘Unboxing’ videos: co-construction of the child as cyberflâneur [PDF]
, 2015 This paper draws on data from a study of a four-year-old child, Gareth, in his first year of formal schooling in England. The aim of the study was to identify the nature of Gareth's literacy practices across home and school spaces.
Appadurai A. +31 more
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Growing up in rural Malawi: dilemmas of childhood [PDF]
, 2010 Rural Malawi is a place where families are generally poor socio-economically. In this chapter we discuss childhood development in a typical Malawian rural setting by focusing on the overall challenges facing families with young children, and we consider ...
Ellis, Sue, Kholowa, Foster
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Promoting international cultural and academic collaborative communication through technologies of open course ware [PDF]
, 2010 In the diverse cultures of an increasingly transnational world where\ud academic literacy in English or Englishes is required for advancement in\ud universities, communication technologies play critical roles.
Carey, Stephen
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Together in Song: Building Literacy Relationships with Song-based Picture Books
Language and Literacy: A Canadian Educational e-journal, 2014 This action research study provided a collaborative social space in which to examine the intersection of shared singing/reading, emergent literacy, and family literacy.
Amanda Montgomery, Kathryn M Smith
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Instructional variables involved in problems associated with diglossia in Arabic speaking schools in Israel. PIRLS 2006 findings [PDF]
, 2010 PIRLS 2006 findings establish that reading literacy attainments of 4th graders in Arabic-speaking countries are poor. This low attainment is also reflected in the findings of PIRLS 2006 in Israel when comparing Arabic-speaking 4th graders\u27 reading ...
Zuzovsky, Ruth
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Continuity vs. Discontinuity: A Case of Home Language and Literacy Socialization in Indonesia
Okara: Jurnal Bahasa dan SastraThe present study explores the language and literacy socialization (LLS) of Indonesian children from low- to middle-income families. The Indonesian government has never truly involved home and family as the base for literacy socialization in its programs,
Layli Hamida +2 more
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Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2018 Background This study aimed to identify motivation and home influence factors that predict reading literacy achievement of grade 4 students in Abu Dhabi It drew on the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) 2011 data, which placed Abu ...
Guang Yang +3 more
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Children and citizenship [PDF]
, 2004 As an adjunct to the National Evaluation of On Track the Home Office Commissioned this qualitative research addressing the question of citizenship. The study included on children and young people from 7-15 years old, exploring their understandings of ...
Hine, Jean
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Making homework count: Homework as a collective task for language minority families
, 2009 In response to a writing prompt asking, “What can parents do to ensure academic success for their child?” a mother with three children under the age of six wrote: “In my opinion he needs motivation from his parents and interest in his homework. [He needs]
Fox, Kathy R.
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