Contexts of Reception as Figured Worlds: Recent‐Arrival Immigrant Youth in High School ESL and Content‐Area Classrooms

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jie Y. Park
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Immigrant Youth ◽  
Figured Worlds ◽  
Content Area ◽  
Recent Arrival ◽  
Contexts Of Reception

DEVELOPING READING MATERIALS FOR JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS BASED ON CONTENT AREA

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anggita Kasanra Lubis And Rafika Dewi Nasution
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Content Area Reading ◽  
Junior High School Students ◽  
Content Area ◽  
English Teacher ◽  
School Students ◽  
First Semester ◽  
Reading Materials

Reading is the basic in learning every subject. The more understanding the text, the more information students can gain. However, the reading materials that the students use is not appropriate based on syllabus. Therefore, the reading materials should be developed to fulfil the syllabus and the students' needs also. Because English is included Content Area Reading, so the development of reading materials is based on content area which focus on strengthen the vocabularies, specifically the unfamiliar ones, by giving glossary and related pictures. The developed text is only focus in the first semester which is descriptive and recount text. The research was conducted at SMP Muhammadiyah 7 Medan. The data was taken from interviewing the English teacher and distributing questionnaires for 30 students in grade VIII-4. The data showed that students need materials which is related to their environment and constructed by familiar vocabularies. Based on the result of the study, conclusion and suggestion are directed to the English teacher who is teaching in that school to provide reading materials based on syllabus and students' needs regularly.

An investigation on conceptual understanding about cosmology

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (S367) ◽  
pp. 397-399
Author(s):  
Arturo Colantonio ◽  
Irene Marzoli ◽  
Italo Testa ◽  
Emanuella Puddu
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Conceptual Understanding ◽  
Hierarchical Cluster Analysis ◽  
Hierarchical Cluster ◽  
Content Area ◽  
School Students ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Teaching Activities

AbstractIn this study, we identify patterns among students beliefs and ideas in cosmology, in order to frame meaningful and more effective teaching activities in this amazing content area. We involve a convenience sample of 432 high school students. We analyze students’ responses to an open-ended questionnaire with a non-hierarchical cluster analysis using the k-means algorithm.

Beyond Delinquent Citizenships: Immigrant Youth's (Re)Visions of Citizenship and Belonging in a Globalized World

2011 ◽  
Vol 81 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Ríos-Rojas
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Immigrant Youth ◽  
Public High School ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Social Landscape ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
Practical Implications

Using ethnographic fieldwork conducted in a public high school located in the greater Barcelona area, Anne Ríos-Rojas focuses on the experiences of immigrant youth as they negotiate a sense of belonging in an ever more globalized society. Ríos-Rojas pays particular attention to the multiple and at times contradictory ways in which youth maneuver within a social landscape that is flooded with confusing messages about what it means to belong (or not) in a new society. Drawing richly on their voices, she describes how these youth navigate through discourses that at times locate them as delinquents and terrorists and, at other times, as victims who require saving—but always as outsiders. She concludes with an exploration of the theoretical and practical implications of attending to youth's (re)visions of belonging and citizenship within an increasingly complex globalized world.

Proficient and Less Proficient Comprehenders' Strategy use for Different Top-Level Structures

1992 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon Benge Kletzien
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Main Idea ◽  
Strategy Use ◽  
Content Area ◽  
The Other ◽  
Previous Knowledge ◽  
Relative Difficulty ◽  
Vocabulary Strategies ◽  
Eleventh Graders ◽  
Comprehension Tests

This study examined proficient and less proficient high school comprehenders' use of strategies as they read three passages with different top-level structures: collection, causation, and comparison. Subjects were 24 tenth and eleventh graders who were divided into proficient and less proficient comprehenders based on results of standardized comprehension tests: proficient comprehenders scored above the 70th percentile; less proficient comprehenders below the 50th percentile. Content area passages were used with the proficient comprehenders and were revised for the less proficient comprehenders so that the passages would be the same relative difficulty for both groups. Results indicate that both groups of readers used similar strategies: rereading, previous knowledge, inference, reading subsequent text, utilizing author's structure, relating to the main idea, and focusing on key vocabulary. Use of inferences was more valuable than other strategies on the collection passage, and use of author's structure was more valuable on the causation passage than on the other passages for the proficient comprehenders. Proficient comprehenders differed from less proficient comprehenders in their greater use of previous knowledge on the collection passage and their greater use of vocabulary strategies on the causation and comparison passages. Implications for instruction are addressed.

scholarly journals Mandatory Community Service Program: A Case Study of Young Nepalese Canadians Experiences

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Nabin Maharjan ◽  
Tom O’Neill
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High Schools ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Community Involvement ◽  
Immigrant Youth ◽  
Visible Minority ◽  
Service Program ◽  
Greater Toronto Area ◽  
Canadian Youth

Canadian schools introduced community service program in 1999 to engage youth in diverse communities of Canada. Many studies have identified the gap in understanding immigrant youths’ experience on mandatory community service but has yet to study immigrant youth’s experience. Therefore, this paper explores the experiences of young Nepalese Canadians aged 18- 24 who participated in mandatory community involvement for graduating from high schools in Ontario, Canada. The findings are based on qualitative data gathered from ten interviews with young Nepalese Canadians who went to Canadian high schools, and are currently living in the Greater Toronto area (GTA). The study provides a nuanced understanding of visible minority immigrant youth’s experiences of mandatory community service in high school. The findings suggest that participants experience the program as merely an obligatory requirement to graduate from high school rather than a platform for learning civic skills and engaging in diverse Canadian communities. In addition, this case study of Nepalese Canadian youth depicts how young Nepalese Canadians depend on informal sources, mainly peer-to-peer sharing, for engaging in community, and illustrates how they conceptualize what community involvement means to them. Finally, based on this study, we argue that amendment to this mandatory program is an urgent call for engaging visible minority immigrant youth civically and meaningfully in Canadian communities.

scholarly journals “Teen Views of Sex:” Inter-animation of dialogues in a radio feature story produced by Mexican immigrant youth

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dana Walker
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Production Process ◽  
Immigrant Youth ◽  
Material Objects ◽  
Mexican Immigrant ◽  
School Students ◽  
Semiotic Approach ◽  
Identity Positioning ◽  
Public Lives

This paper proposes an analysis of dialogical processes in the creation of a radio feature story titled “Teen Views of Sex,” co-produced by Mexican immigrant high school students in the context of a Youth Radio and Radio Arts program. After describing the socio-cultural and curricular context of the program, I apply Zittoun and Grossen’s (2013) semiotic approach to dialogicality to describe the kinds of dialogue that took place during the interviews and subsequent reflections upon the feature story and production process. The types of dialogue examined include: actual dialogue, distant dialogue, auto-dialogue, dialogue between situations, and dialogue with material objects, or non-human actants. I explore how the inter-animation of these forms of dialogue gave rise to dialogic tensions, which may have created openings for shifts in identity positioning and an enhanced sense of agency for the youth in their personal and public lives.

scholarly journals Content-Based Recreational Book Reading and Taiwanese Adolescents’ Academic Achievement

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 207
Author(s):  
Su-Yen Chen ◽  
Hsing-Yu Chang ◽  
Shih Ruey Yang
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
Reading Program ◽  
Content Area ◽  
Book Reading ◽  
Specific Content ◽  
Entrance Exam ◽  
Subject Areas ◽  
Science Trade Books

The linkage between reading for pleasure and language ability has been well established, but the relationship between content-based recreational reading and academic achievement in various subject areas has rarely been explored. To investigate whether reading literature, social studies, and science trade books for pleasure is related to students’ growth in achievement for the subjects of Chinese, social studies, and science, respectively, this study used data from 4,730 students at a Taiwanese girls’ high school. Based on students’ high school entrance exam test scores in three subject areas as control variables, and their college entrance exam scores as the outcomes, the findings indicated that pleasure reading in a specific content area might lead to growth in achievement for that particular content area, and in some cases, reading in other content areas might help as well. A reading program that invites students to engage in self-sponsored reading can promote disciplinary literacy and academic achievement.

Tools of Navigation

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hillary Parkhouse ◽  
Summer Melody Pennell
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
High School ◽  
Education Research ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Figured Worlds ◽  
Dominant Culture ◽  
Gender Identities ◽  
Queer Youth ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Transformative Resistance

Much qualitative education research has examined the intersectional identities of queer youth and Latina youth, in both cases highlighting how their identities converge with, collide with, or in other ways relate to their lives in schools. These studies have approached identity from a variety of lenses—borderlands, social practice and figured worlds, and others. They have also offered various positions on the extent to which the youth demonstrate agency and resistance. This chapter reports on a study that used meta-ethnography to synthesize the theoretical approaches, claims, and implications of the extant ethnographic work on Latina gender identities and sexualities. It finds that Latina high school and college students explored their identities in complex ways while questioning norms from both their own backgrounds and the dominant culture. At the same time, the authors represented their participants as having varying degrees of agency and commitments to collective, transformative resistance.

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