scholarly journals Nyanlända elevers litteracitetspraktiker i skolan

2019 ◽  
pp. 50-71
Author(s):  
Anna Winlund ◽  
Anna Lyngfelt ◽  
Åsa Wengelin
Keyword(s):  
Literacy Practices ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
First Language ◽  
Semantic Content ◽  
Written Language ◽  
Educational Context ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Skilled Reader ◽  
Learning To Read ◽  
Primary School Age

During the last decade, the number of recently arrived immigrant pupils has increased in Swedish schools. This has entailed great challenges for the educational system, not least concerning how these pupils can acquire written language skills in a second language. Against this backdrop, we have investigated the literacy practices of two recently arrived pupils. The two pupils, seven and eight years old, speak Dari as their first language, have no previous school experience and are now learning to read and write in Swedish. The pupils were observed during ten weeks in a mainstream Swedish-speaking educational context. Luke and Freebody’s (1990) four resources’ model was used in order to identify different literacy practices. The model emphasises four different practices that are all necessary, but not in themselves sufficient for a person to develop into a skilled reader: decoding words; understanding of semantic content; pragmatic use and a critical approach to texts. The article describes the challenges of literacy acquisition for the two children in relation to all four practices, but also pinpoints potential resources that can be used to support the pupils’ learning in relation to these difficulties. Finally, pedagogical implications for the teaching of recently arrived pupils of primary school age are discussed in relation to the results.

Functional and structural neural plasticity effects of literacy acquisition in adulthood

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-107
Author(s):  
Melanie Boltzmann ◽  
Thomas Münte ◽  
Bahram Mohammadi ◽  
Jascha Rüsseler
Keyword(s):  
Neural Plasticity ◽  
Adult Literacy ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Written Language ◽  
Learning To Read ◽  
Workplace Literacy ◽  
Functional Illiteracy ◽  
Brain Changes ◽  
Definition Of

Abstract. In Germany, 7.5 Million individuals between 18 and 64 years are considered to be functionally illiterate (Grotlüschen & Riekmann, 2012). Functional illiterates have only rudimentary literacy skills despite attending school for several years. Although they can use written language to a very limited extent, only few functional illiterates attend literacy courses for adults. In addition, most adult literacy courses primarily aim at promoting basic reading and writing skills. Offers specific to workplace literacy are scarce. This review gives an overview of the definition of functional illiteracy. Afterwards, a specific literacy program (AlphaPlus) and its effectiveness will be presented. The reviewed studies indicate that learning to read in adulthood is associated with structural and functional brain changes.

WRITING SKILLS IN SMP USWATUN HASANAH, BURU DISTRICT

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
HARZIKO
Keyword(s):  
Middle School Students ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
Written Language ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Reading Process ◽  
School Students ◽  
Junior High Students ◽  
The Media

Abstract Reading is a process carried out and used by the reader to obtain a message, which the writer wants to convey through the media of written language. A process that demands that groups of words which are a unity be seen at a glance, and so that the meaning of individual words will be known. If this is not fulfilled, then the explicit and implicit message will not be captured or understood, and the reading process will not be carried out properly. A process that demands that groups of words that represent a group will be seen in a glance, and so that the meaning of individual words will be known. This study aims to describe the language skills of Uswatun Hasanah Middle School students in Buru Regency. The research location is in the Islamic boarding school of Uswatun hasanah Namlea. data and data sources namely students of class VII Uswatun hasanah. the method in this study is PTK or classroom action research. The results of the study showed that the language skills of the seventh grade junior high students were very prominent as evidenced by the assignment of language assignments, namely. Keywords: Reading, Uswatun hasanah, students, Buru

Revisiting Curricula for Deaf Students

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stein Erik Ohna
Keyword(s):  
Sign Language ◽  
Educational System ◽  
School System ◽  
First Language ◽  
National Curriculum ◽  
Educational Context ◽  
Deaf Students ◽  
National Policies ◽  
Classroom Processes ◽  
The Right

The Norwegian National Curriculum in 1997 introduced four subject curricula for deaf students as part of new legislation giving deaf students who have acquired sign language as their first language the right to instruction in the use of sign language and through the medium of sign language. A few years later, new hearing technologies contributed to substantial changes in the educational context. This situation has challenged the school system, schools, and teachers. The chapter is organized in three sections. First, the educational system and the process leading to the introduction of new legislation is presented. The second section deals with information about the use of curricula for deaf students. The last section discusses issues of students’ achievements, classroom processes, and national policies.

Formation of spirituality, morality and patriotic feelings in children of primary school age

2021 ◽  
pp. 130-136
Author(s):  
Fatima Kh. Kirguevа ◽  
Natalia A. Perepelkina ◽  
Elita S. Tabolova
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Moral Education ◽  
Semantic Content ◽  
School Age ◽  
Educational Work ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
Patriotic Education ◽  
Moral Qualities ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Primary School Age

The article deals with the specific aspects of the formation of spirituality, morality and patriotic feelings in children of primary school age. Spirituality, morality, and patriotic feelings are unchangeable universal values that may sound different, but their semantic content is identical among different peoples. The formation of these values is possible already in primary school age. It is spiritual and moral education that sets the attitudes that affect the essence of human relationships. The personality becomes spiritually richer through the introduction of children of the first stage of education to spiritual and moral values, through the formation of an attitude to themselves and to other people, to the surrounding world as a value, the development of the consciousness of the younger student and his spiritual qualities. The formation of moral qualities in students of primary school age will be more productive when creating a number of pedagogical conditions, since they are the most manageable, aimed at forming a certain kind of relationship. The analysis of theoretical sources gives us a reason to conclude that the problem of the spirituality of the individual occupies one of the central places in the system of knowledge about a person, and has repeatedly become the object of research by philosophers, psychologists and teachers. In order to identify the pedagogical conditions for the formation of spirituality, morality and patriotic feelings in younger schoolchildren by determining the level of formation of these qualities in students, a study was conducted in MBOU Secondary School No. 20 in Mineralnye Vody, Stavropol Territory. The authors identified the criteria of educational work on the formation of patriotic feelings and determine the stages of patriotic education in children of primary school age.

scholarly journals Skriftsprogskompetence og skriftsprogsvalg hos to kommandanter på Kronborg i 2. halvdel af 1600-tallet

2016 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Birgit Christensen
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Written Language ◽  
German Language ◽  
Construction Work ◽  
Command Language ◽  
Vital Importance ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Professional Writers ◽  
Selection Of

It is a rule of thumb that the army’s command language was German until 1773 andafter that Danish. But along with the language of the army, the army’s administrationalso had a written language, and that is the subject of this brief empirical study. Thestudy will discuss the written language skills and the choice of written language by twocommandants of the same age at Kronborg, who were otherwise very different people,each holding the position of commandant at the fortress for a number of years in thesecond half of 17th century, in a selection of letters from them to the king and thecentral administration. The letters are often about the construction work, which tookplace at Kronborg at the time. The following questions are asked: Which language wasused when writing to whom? And what language did they allow to be written to whom,when they used professional writers? In what situations did they use professional writers?Was the choice of language determined by the recipient? The first is the Danishnobleman Eiller Holck (1627–1696). The letters examined are from 1660–1664. EillerHolck, who was quite well-educated, was skilled at writing in both Danish and German,but mostly used a writer, and when writing himself, he seldomly wrote more than ashort text near his signature. When he himself wrote to the king, he wrote Danish,but when writing to the king using a writer, the writer used German. This was also thecase when writing to the Danish/Norwegian nobleman Jørgen Bielke. This is perhapslinked with the language skills of the writer that was available. Holck took into accountthe fact that his superior, Danish Field Marshall Hans Schack, preferred German. BothHans Schack and Eiller Holck used translations in communications with their troops.The second is Jacob Geueke, son of a commoner from Burg on the German island ofFemern (1617–1699). The letters examined are from 1688–1692. He used German language writers, only wrote amendments on the letters himself and only in Germanand was not satisfied with his own standard of writing. Perhaps he understood Danish.It is of vital importance that many of the recipients of the letters in the central administrationwere from Holsten. Perhaps the delivered correspondence would have beenin Danish to a greater extent had Jørgen Bielke been more involved in the administration?

scholarly journals The Humanitarian Project-Based Material for Productive Written Language Skills Subject for English Education Study Program

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 341-355
Author(s):  
Anggraini Thesisia Saragih ◽  
Amrin Saragih ◽  
Christine Helena ◽  
Yuni Khairina ◽  
Ade Namira
Keyword(s):  
English Education ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Written Language ◽  
Expert Judgement ◽  
Study Program ◽  
First Semester ◽  
Need Analysis ◽  
Education Study ◽  
Course Material ◽  
Gathering Data

This study was aimed to develop humanitarian project-based material for productive written language skills subject for English Education Study Program at UNIMED. Research and Development (R&D) was the design of this study with the subjects of the study were 25 students of first semester students of English Education Study Program at UNIMED. The research procedures were adapted from Borg and Gall’s research theory (1983) namely 1)gathering data and information, 2)need analysis, 3)designing course material, 4)validating and evaluating new course material by the Experts, 5)revising the course material and 6)final product. The instruments of collecting the data were questionnaire, interview and expert judgement questionnaire. The data were analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively.. Based on the result of the expert judgement, the whole aspects of developed materials were in the range of 81-100% and were categorized as “very good”.

Questions about constructions

2002 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 449-488 ◽  
Author(s):  
JIM MILLER
Keyword(s):  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Literacy Practices ◽  
First Language ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
First Language Acquisition ◽  
Central Topic

Ravid & Tolchinsky are to be applauded for proposing literacy as a central topic in first language acquisition. A synthesis of research in spoken language, in literacy and literacy practices and the lines of enquiry represented in MacWhinney (1999) has interesting consequences for theories of first language acquisition, not least the nativist ones. This response focuses on constructions but a brief list of controversial points in R&T's paper will be useful.

Dynamic Assessment of Learners of a Spoken Language

2021 ◽  
pp. 87-99
Author(s):  
Natalie Hasson
Keyword(s):  
Language Learners ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Dynamic Assessment ◽  
First Language ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Test Taker ◽  
Learning Potential ◽  
Hyperactivity Disorder ◽  
Assessment Of Learning ◽  
Language Difficulties

Dynamic assessment (DA), or the assessment of learning potential, is becoming recognized as an alternative method that has wide application within the assessment of language. In moving away from comparison to normative data, the assessment enables a wider range of children to be assessed, including all of those for whom the norms do not apply, such as children with autistic spectrum conditions, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), hearing loss, and bi- or multilingual children. In addition to differentiating language difficulties due to lack of experience with the target language from developmental language disorders (DLD), the DA procedure contributes a considerable amount of qualitative information about the learning skills of the test-taker. This chapter reviews the multiple models and methods of DA and the work that has been done to develop tools to assess language skills in first language learners.

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