Factors of Influence on Classroom Literacy Practices

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 32-55
Author(s):  
Laura Hasselquist ◽  
Tracy Kitchel
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Education ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
English Language ◽  
Literacy Practices ◽  
Literacy Assessment ◽  
Agriculture Teachers ◽  
Recommendations For Practice ◽  
Classroom Literacy ◽  
Training And Support ◽  
Personal Literacy

Previous research has indicated professional training and support, personal literacy preferences, and professional literacy attitudes have an influence on classroom literacy practices. Limited literacy related research has been conducted in agricultural education. This study sought to examine the influence of professional training and support, personal literacy preferences, and professional literacy attitudes of agriculture teachers on current classroom literacy practices. Data was collected from in-service teachers in 35 states. The researchers determined a majority of agriculture teachers have completed professional training, have positive personal literacy preferences and positive professional literacy attitudes. They also use a variety of literacy activities in their classrooms. The use of PowerPoint presentations and traditional writing activities were the only practices determined to have a significant influencer. Recommendations for practice include encouraging agriculture teachers to develop relationships with the English/Language Arts department and offering professional development related to literacy assessment.

scholarly journals Engagement From the Periphery: Reconceptualizing Adult English Language Learners’ Resistance in Developmental Literacy

2020 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 154-173
Author(s):  
Emily K. Suh
Keyword(s):  
English Language Learners ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Adult Literacy ◽  
English Language ◽  
Literacy Practices ◽  
Language Class ◽  
Speakers Of Other Languages ◽  
Literacy Class ◽  
Classroom Literacy

English language learners’ nonparticipation and reticence in adult literacy classes are often presented problematically from a deficit lens of student resistance and disengagement. This article draws from an ethnographic case study of Generation 1 learners, who are defined as adult-arrival immigrant learners, transitioning from an adult English as a Second Language class to a developmental literacy class. By examining learners’ resistance through a framework of agency enactment, the study bridges the fields of adult literacy and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, both of which support adult-arrival immigrants entering the U.S. education system. The resulting analysis illustrates how Generation 1 learners’ acts of resistance can be complex presentations of their literacy identities and their engagement in classroom literacy practices.

scholarly journals SFL in Solomon Islands: A Framework for Improving Literacy Practices in Primary School

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 207-223
Author(s):  
Marie Quinn
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
English Language ◽  
Literacy Practices ◽  
Solomon Islands ◽  
Language Instruction ◽  
Early Years ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Literacy Testing ◽  
Classroom Literacy

Assessing and reforming classroom literacy has become a preoccupation of nations worldwide, not the least in the Pacific where countries are often working toward literacy in English within multilingual contexts. In Solomon Islands, in 2013, the poor results in regional and local literacy testing precipitated a review of how the English language was taught in primary schools across this multilingual nation. In the subsequent reform of classroom literacy materials and associated training for teachers, a principled approach was taken using a Systemic Functional Linguistics framework. Such an approach uses a model of language instruction based on language strata together with explicit teaching within a learning cycle to support reading and writing. This article describes how such principles from sfl were embedded into new teaching materials for the early years of primary school and the accompanying training for teachers and principals that took place from 2014–2016. The work offers a potential model of reform for other settings where the development of literacy in a non-community language is critical to students’ success in schooling.

Conflicting Discourses

2012 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 300-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn Ciechanowski
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
English Language ◽  
Literacy Practices ◽  
Language Learner ◽  
Discursive Practice ◽  
Bilingual Students ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Dominant Culture ◽  
School Text ◽  
Content Coverage

This article provides micro analysis of one representative incident from a larger qualitative study to examine how third-grade bilingual students and their teacher negotiated academic disciplinary and popular culture discourses in a social studies unit on Jamestown and Pocahontas. Informed by discourse and linguistic analyses, this study explores the competing dominant and nondominant discourses as they intersected and overlapped in the complex literacy practices in this classroom. Ms. Montclair’s instruction was shaped by the textbook’s approach to social studies and accountability pressures of testing and content coverage. Yet the students drew from everyday popular resources in their thinking, taking up nonacademic discourses to understand content. This research explores the following questions: (a) What are the predominant discourses evident in the official curricular text and teacher’s enactment of it? (b) What are the discourses evident in children’s everyday resources drawn on to make sense of the school text? (c) How do specific linguistic features make possible these discourses and perspectives? Findings demonstrate that students navigated across multiple discourses that were different but represented dominant culture. As discourses intersected in class, participants provided a level of critical analyses but did not deeply take up nondominant perspectives despite their own positioning from linguistically and culturally nondominant backgrounds. By showing the complexity of literate and discursive practice, this article contributes to understandings of how bilingual and English language learner students confront the demands of academic disciplinary language, draw on their own resources to make sense of content, and require explicit instruction on language and social justice.

Interpellations of Family/Community and Classroom Literacy Practices

2000 ◽  
Vol 93 (3) ◽  
pp. 155-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Bloome ◽  
Laurie Katz ◽  
Judith Solsken ◽  
Jerri Willett ◽  
Jo-Anne Wilson-Keenan
Keyword(s):  
Literacy Practices ◽  
Classroom Literacy

scholarly journals ‘I got content with who I was’: Rural teachers’ encounters with new ways of practising literacy

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Toni Gennrich
Keyword(s):  
Literacy Practices ◽  
Limpopo Province ◽  
Literacy Teachers ◽  
Rural Teachers ◽  
Bachelor Of Education ◽  
Teacher Students ◽  
The University ◽  
Personal Literacy ◽  
Critical Imagination

In a context where Foundation Phase literacy teachers’ personal literacy often involves operational and technicist practices rather than creative, this paper argues that it is by exposing teachers to experiences of working with different genres of text for an extended time, in different fields, that teachers are able to imagine the possibilities these genres afford. Using a Bourdieusian framework of habitus, field, capital and doxa and applying imagination to the theorisation of these concepts, I examine the effect on a group of rural teachers from Limpopo province of being removed from their classrooms, and being given the opportunity to complete a 4-year Bachelor of Education degree at the University of the Witwatersrand. This case study used reflective journals and focus groups to trace shifts in the ways these teacher-students enacted literacy and thought about teaching literacy. Findings from this study suggest that teachers of literacy can change deeply entrenched ways of thinking about and valuing literacy by reflecting on the discontinuities between old and new ways of practice and, through anticipatory reflection, to imagine possibilities of teaching and enacting literacy differently. This requires critical imagination, awareness and agency. This paper discusses, in particular, Elela’s experience with poetry and Kganya’s experience with a drama script, assessing the effect this had on their personal literacy practices and how they imagine teaching literacy in the future.

Toward a Participatory View of Early Literacies in Second Language Contexts

2019 ◽  
pp. 378-402
Author(s):  
Claudia Cañas ◽  
Ángela Patricia Ocampo ◽  
Ana Karina Rodríguez ◽  
Mónica López-Ladino ◽  
Raúl Alberto Mora
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
English Language Learners ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Critical Literacy ◽  
English Language ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Literacy Practices ◽  
Early Childhood Teachers ◽  
Language Context ◽  
Pedagogical Framework

This chapter will introduce a pedagogical framework to engage with literacy practices in early childhood contexts and English language learners (ELLs), based on the commonalities across three research studies carried out in three schools in Medellín, Colombia. In this chapter, we argue that developing strong pedagogical proposals for PreK-5 spaces entails breaking the traditional compartmentalization of children's practices between in or out of school and carefully integrating multimodality and critical literacy in our curricula. Besides the explanation of our pedagogical framework and its link to our current research, the chapter also provides some insights for early childhood teachers working with ELLs around the world to draw from these frameworks and transform their curricula. Although language context may differ, there are developmental commonalities across the board that practitioners and teacher educators can draw from, regardless of whether the children are in English-speaking contexts or not.

Investigation Into Fermentation

2019 ◽  
pp. 160-182
Author(s):  
Kris Krautkremer ◽  
Cerrone Renee Foster
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Literacy Practices ◽  
Lesson Plan ◽  
State Standards ◽  
Business Owners ◽  
Food Preservation ◽  
Cellular Respiration ◽  
Reading Practices ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Scientific Papers

This integrated lesson focuses on fermentation, its role in cellular respiration, and practical uses of fermentation for food preservation and nutrient bioavailability. The authors created authentic students experiences through fermentation of yogurt, kefir, kimchi, sauerkraut, pickles, and kombucha. Teachers used the science literacy practices while students engaged with a professional paper throughout the learning cycle in the Biology course. ELA reading practices were implemented to engage students in reading scientific papers and development of a final written assignment. Business owners and other experts brought real-world and hands-on experience in making these products as well as ties to personal culture. The authors applied the 5E lesson plan format, which prompts students to analyze their thinking through a cycle of hands-on and minds-on activities. This lesson addresses Tennessee State Standards for Science and English Language Arts (ELA) for students from both Biology and ELA courses (11th and 12th grades).

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