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Waller, Tim. "Cognition and technology : scaffolding young children's literacy through ICT." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/30981.
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Young children in nursery and school at the present time are active participants in a community and a culture where the use of technology is a regular, and growing, part of daily life. This thesis discusses the possible benefits of children's experience and awareness of ICT and examines aspects of teacher-child interaction in the context using computers to support literacy teaching in the classroom. A detailed consideration of the 'scaffolding' process and its role in supporting teaching and learning with ICT is made. The thesis describes and analyses a research project carried out in primary and nursery school classes with children aged between 3 and 8 years, over a period of two years. The research was designed to explore how children use computers to read and write in the classroom and to investigate the teachers' style of interaction when supporting children's literacy with ICT. The research was conducted from a sociocultural perspective and a range of methods, including video recordings, observations, questionnaires and semi-structured interviews were used to gather and evaluate data from children and teachers. After evaluation of the data, results from the project are analysed, and the thesis then discusses the findings of the study in relation to previous research and makes a number of points about the nature of teacher-child interaction around the computer during literacy sessions. The problematic nature of identifying and describing scaffolding and joint activity in the classroom is considered in detail and further areas for investigation discussed. In the concluding remarks a conceptual and theoretical position is advanced in the light of the study to determine ways forward for research in the field.
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Jackson, Carolyn M. Rhodes Dent. "The high school library web site scaffolding information literacy skills /." Normal, Ill. : Illinois State University, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=1276395781&SrchMode=1&sid=2&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1202154031&clientId=43838.
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Thesis (Ed. D.)--Illinois State University, 2006.Title from title page screen, viewed on February 4, 2008. Dissertation Committee: Dent Rhodes (chair), Tom Crumpler, Cheri Toledo, Bobb Darnell. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 107-113) and abstract. Also available in print.
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Keith, Karin, Huili Hong, and Renee Rice Moran. "Scaffolding Student Reading of Informational Texts with Science Literacy Centers." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1014.
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Constable, Susan Diane. "Tutor-child interactions in bookmaking: Scaffolding children's early literacy understandings /." The Ohio State University, 1997. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487946103565371.
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Brownfield, Katherine Singleton. "Scaffolding in Literacy Learning and Teaching: The Impact of Teacher Responsiveness During Writing on First Grade Students’ Literacy Learning." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1461144877.
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Bremner, Patricia. "Teacher scaffolding of literate discourse with Indigenous Reading Recovery students." Connect to thesis, 2009. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/5623.
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The research study described in this report was conducted in 2007 at a Kindergarten to Year 12 College, situated in the remote Kimberley region of Western Australia. Using case study methods, this research aimed to examine the scaffolding techniques used by two Reading Recovery teachers as they supported the language and literacy learning of two Indigenous Reading Recovery students. And further, to examine the impact of this scaffolding on each student’s language and literacy learning.Multiple data sets were collected and examined with results discussed throughout this study. Transcripts and direct quotes were used to support the reporting of emergent themes and patterns with the convergence of the data used to support the internal validity of this small scale study.
This paper takes the position that generalisations, assumptions and stereotypical negative images of Indigenous students as disengaged and noncompliant students can be curtailed when teachers acknowledge that Indigenous students are active language learners with rich cultural and linguistic ‘funds of knowledge’ (Moll & Greenberg, 1990). These funds can support students’ new learning of literate discourse which is defined and used throughout this study as: the language used in schools to read, write and talk about texts used for educational purposes. Significantly, difficulties Indigenous students experience with literate discourse have been identified as contributing to the educational underachievement of this group of Australian students (Gray, 2007; Rose, Gray & Cowey, 1998, 1999).
The findings from this small scale study indicate that within the context of Reading Recovery teaching, teacher-student interaction and contingent teacher scaffolding, centred on text reading and writing experiences can support Indigenous students to code-switch between home languages and dialects, Standard Australian English and literate discourse.
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Moran, Renee Rice. "Scaffolding the Use of Non-fiction Text with Young Readers." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3627.
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Keith, Karin, and Renee Rice Moran. "Practical Strategies for Scaffolding the Reading of Informational Texts." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1013.
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Sotiriou, Hallberg Siri. "Den som äger en trädgård och en boksamling saknar intet - Om begreppet ”läsförståelse” och undervisning i läsförståelsestrategier i den svenska gymnasieskolan." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-33629.
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Denna studie är ett examensarbete på avancerad nivå med inriktning mot gymnasieskolan i fördjupningsämnet svenska och lärande. Syftet med studien har varit att undersöka vilka olika dimensioner begreppet ”läsförståelse” kan ha för lärare i svenska på gymnasiet samt att belysa vilka strategier dessa lärare använder för att träna sina elever i läsförståelse. De frågor som ligger till grund för min undersökning är:•Finns det en enighet i hur de intervjuade lärarna i svenska på gymnasiet definierar begreppet ”läsförståelse”?•Hur arbetar dessa lärare didaktiskt med läsförståelsestrategier i sin undervisning?Läsförståelse är en förmåga som flera av de elever som börjar gymnasiet inte till fullo har tillgodogjort sig i grundskolan och vikten av att även under gymnasietiden medvetet arbeta med strategier för läsförståelse belyses. Metoden som används är kvalitativa intervjuer med tre gymnasielärare med svenska som huvudämne i sin lärarexamen. Utifrån detta empiriska material vill jag visa hur de intervjuade lärarna definierar begreppet läsförståelse samt vilka didaktiska överväganden dessa lärare gör då de planerar sin undervisning med fokus på läsförståelseträning. Resultatet visar att de intervjuade lärarna definierar de faktorer som ligger till grund för att utveckla elevernas läsförståelse, men att läsförståelse som begrepp (utifrån PISA-testets definition) inte belyses under intervjuerna. Vidare arbetar samtliga intervjuade lärare med läsförståelse i sin undervisning, men på varierande grund och utifrån olika didaktiska ställningstaganden.This essay is an advanced degree level project, written as a major consisting of 300 credits at Malmö University. The purpose of this study has been to highlight the matter of how teachers in a Swedish upper secondary school are discussing and teaching their students reading comprehension. The questions asked is: •Is there a consensus to be found in how the interviewed teachers in swedish language in the upper secondary school defines the concept of ”reding comprehension”?•What didactical considerations do these teachers make when they work with strategies for an improved reading comprehension among their pupils?Previous studies shows that students graduate from elementary school without satisfying capacity to read, understand and to make sense of different texts. The qualitative method used in the empirical study investigates how three teachers with swedish language and literature as their main subject defines the concept of reading comprehension and how these teachers are working with different methods to improve the reading comprehension of the students. The result shows that the approached teachers defines the factors that are essential to develope and improve reading comprehension, but not reading comprehension as a concept. Further more, the teachers are using didactically motivated methods to work with and improve their students reading comprehension, but with different theoretical reasons and with a varied degree of theoretical rootedness.
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Cheng, Rui. "The role of computer-mediated communication in non-native speakers' acquisition of academic literacy." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2007. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0001986.
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Durst, Elizabeth Ann. "Scaffolding Preschoolers' Acquisition, Maintenance, and Generalization of Phoneme Segmentation Skills Using Sound Boxes." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1368707491.
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Damber, Ulla. "Reading for Life : Three Studies of Swedish Students’ Literacy Development." Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för beteendevetenskap och lärande, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-53456.
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The aim of this thesis is to explore school classes with a higher level of achievement in reading than could be expected, with regard to socio-economic background factors and language background. What do those classes practice? Which attitudes towards reading and schooling do those children and their teachers display? The teacher and the classroom environment are in particular focus. The thesis is based on three studies. Firstly, over-achieving and underachieving grade three-classes in reading are compared in a large-scale statistical study. Reading tests, student questionnaires and teacher questionnaires provided data. The results indicate that a positive classroom climate, frequent voluntary reading, the use of authentic literature and many years of teaching experience characterise the over-achieving classes. In a second study eight over-achieving classes, in the same data material were in focus. The schools were located in a low-income, low-education multicultural suburban area. In-depth interviews were performed with adults active in those classes at the time of the data collection. The joint analyses of quantitative and qualitative data indicate that teachers’ ways of relating to their students is important as the Deficit Discourse is replaced by future oriented pedagogy with features such as aesthetic activities, dynamic assessment, strong raming, abundant reading of fiction and a lot of writing. In a third smaller, qualitative study five young university students, former students in one of the targeted classes in the second study, were interviewed in-depth about their school experiences and their Future Time Perspective. The informants emphasize the importance of being acknowledged in school, reading competency and knowledge of oral and written Swedish as factors for success.Syftet med avhandlingen är att utforska de faktorer som bidrar till att vissa skolklasser presterar på högre nivåer i läsning än vad man skulle kunna förvänta med hänsyn till socioekonomiska bakgrundsfaktorer och språkbakgrund. Hur arbetar dessa klasser? Vilka uppfattningar och attityder visavi läsning och skola kännetecknar dessa barn och deras lärare? Framför allt fokuseras läraren och undervisningen. Avhandlingen baserar sig på tre studier. I en första storskalig statistisk studie jämförs över- och underpresterande klasser i läsning i skolår tre. Lästester, lärarenkäter och elevenkäter låg till grund för analyserna. Resultaten indikerar ett positivt klassrumsklimat, höga frekvenser av fritidsläsning, autentisk litteratur i undervisningen samt lärares långa yrkeserfarenhet som karaktäristika. I en andra uppföljande studie, fokuserades åtta överpresterande klasser i samma datamaterial, i ett multikulturellt förortsområde med låga utbildnings- och inkomstnivåer. I denna studie djupintervjuades även vuxna som varit aktiva i de överpresterande klasserna under tiden för datainsamlingen. De samlade analyserna av kvalitativa och kvantitativa data indikerar att lärares förhållningssätt intar en nyckelroll, då ett brist-synsätt ersatts av framtidsorienterad pedagogik, med inslag som estetisk verksamhet, dynamisk utvärdering, fasta strukturer, riklig läsning av skönlitteratur och eget skrivande. I en tredje, mindre, kvalitativ studie djupintervjuas tidigare elever från en av de undersökta klasserna, nu unga vuxna i början av sin akademiska karriär, om sin skolgång och sitt framtidsperspektiv. Informanterna betonar värdet av att få lyckas, att bli sedd och uppskattad för den man är, samt hemtamhet med litteratur och svenska språket i tal och skrift som framgångsfaktorer.
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Murdoch, Margaret Kate. "Sibling Impact On Early Literacy Development As Observed By Parents." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1462189564.
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Bennett, Patricia, and n/a. "Pedagogic Antecedents of Classroom Writing." University of Canberra. School of Education & Community Studies, 2007. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20080306.141328.
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This thesis reports on aspects of a large observational study of writing lessons in a range of
ACT primary classrooms. The observational study followed students at risk of failure, who
had made literacy gains through the Scaffolding Literacy pedagogy developed at the Schools
and Community Centre, with a view to investigating their subsequent interactions in
mainstream writing classrooms. This thesis is concerned with the extent to which teaching in
these classrooms supported the children?s access to literate discourse.
In order to ascertain the pedagogic antecedents of the lessons, this study focuses on the
section of the lessons prior to children being asked to write. It explores two areas of
preparation for writing: the first regarding building of the field of enquiry (what to write
about); the second, the extent to which children are shown how to write an appropriate text.
The study proposes a level of explicitness that delivers a fine degree of knowledge about
language while supporting students who might otherwise be disadvantaged in the classroom.
The analysis in this study attempts to categorise the different kinds of interactions within the
discourse of representative lessons by applying a framework for the pedagogic register of
writing lessons proposed by Christie (1991, 2002) with particular reference to convergence of
instructional and regulative registers. It was found that convergence alone was insufficient to
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provide explicitness in teaching. However, when convergence was combined with a particular
form of classroom interaction as developed in Scaffolding Literacy pedagogy a high degree of
explicitness was made available to promote learning.
Little effective preparation for writing was found in classrooms dominated by ?whole
language? orientations, especially where writing lessons were based on personal experience.
However, use of literate texts provided more powerful access than personal experience to
effective writing. The most productive classroom teaching resulted from building shared
experience based on a model text which itself provided the resources for the teaching of
writing.
The study raises questions about the importance of access to literate language when teaching
writing and the role of constructive, purposeful questioning to build the knowledge of field as
well as modelling features of language necessary for children to produce their own written
texts.
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Pentimonti, Jill Marie. "Meeting the Needs of All Children: The Use and Impact of Scaffolding in the Preschool Classroom." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1306336860.
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Wetterö, Jenny. "Samtal vid skrivande : En studie kring vad som sker i samtalet mellan elever när de skriver tillsammans." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för pedagogik (PED), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-78600.
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Den här kvalitativa empiriska studien syftar till att få kunskap om vad som sker i samtalet mellan elever när de skriver tillsammans på dator, då detta kan vara svårt att upptäcka i klassrumssituationen. Ett sociokulturellt perspektiv antogs och syftet preciserades i frågeställningen: På vilket sätt interagerar elever när de tillsammans och i samband med ASL-arbetet skriver en text på datorn? Tre skrivarpar deltog i studien, som genomfördes vid två tillfällen. Metoden som användes var videofilmning av elevers samtal vid skrivande samt tematisk analys av insamlat material, inspirerad av Braun & Clark (2006). Resultatet visar att interaktionen mellan eleverna var omfattande och avgörande för skrivresultatet. Det framträdde tre kategorier: samspel, innehåll och stavning. Eleverna visar att de finner det lustfyllt att skriva tillsammans och det gick också att se hur de tillsammans förbättrade sina texter på olika vis och hur datorn påverkade deras arbete. Slutsatsen är att pararbete i skrivning på datorn har positiv effekt på elevers skrivutveckling och genom att se vad de samverkar kring kan man som pedagog få inblick i hur man kan arbeta vidare pedagogiskt kring skrivande.This qualitative empirical study aims at gaining knowledge of what happens in the conversation between students when writing together on a computer, as this can be difficult to detect in classroom situations. A socio-cultural perspective was adopted and the purpose was clarified in the question: In what way do students interact when they together and in connection with the ASL work write a text on the computer? Three students participated in the study, which was conducted on two occasions. The method used was video capture of students' conversations in writing as well as thematic analysis of collected material, inspired by Braun & Clark (2006). The results show that the interaction between the students was comprehensive and crucial to the writing result. There were three categories: interaction, content and spelling. The students show that they find it fun to write together and it was also possible to see how they together improved their texts in different ways and how the computer affected their work. The conclusion is that pairing in writing on the computer has a positive effect on the students' writing development and by seeing what they interact, one can as an educator gain insight into how to further work pedagogically around writing.
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Petringa, Natascia. "Science Literacy for English Language Learners: A Qualitative Study of Teacher Practices in European Private International Schools." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/42499.
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Worldwide, an influx of immigration, has increased the heterogeneity of our classrooms. In light of today’s heightened teacher accountability, standards and high-stakes assessment, traditional ways of teaching need to change in order to effectively serve the needs of our culturally and linguistically diverse students. Therefore, a qualitative-interpretive study was conducted with ten science teachers working in six private, international schools based in Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, and Belgium with a focus on teacher perceptions, beliefs, teaching practices, and instructional resources used to teach science to English Language Learners (ELLs).
Emphasis was placed on the specific teaching modalities and resources that science teachers use to support ELLs in their classrooms. It also addressed the needs of teachers to effectively teach science to ELLs. In response to the research questions, the thematic analysis revealed that the teachers working in these schools had a good awareness of ELL needs in science and wanted to make a difference for these learners. They perceived ELLs as quiet, but hardworking and motivated students. To some degree, the teachers used all seven modalities of teaching: reading, writing, speaking, listening, doing, interpreting, and representing, with or without the use of technology, and considered multimodality to be the most effective way to make science accessible to ELLs.
Though not exhaustive, this research offers a set of pedagogical tools and resources for pre-service and in-service teachers to meet the needs of their ELLs in science. Furthermore, based on the teacher responses, the research identifies five key areas which are necessary for science literacy development of culturally and linguistically diverse students. These include: (i) teachers’ positive mindset and awareness towards ELLs in science; (ii) school leadership and administrative support for ELLs; (iii) time, multimodality, and specialized professional development (PD) to scaffold science for ELLs; (iv) the provision of realistic opportunities to collaborate with the ELL or English Language Development (ELD) teacher; and (v) co-teaching science with an ELL/ELD teacher. I would hereby like to share the findings of this thesis and make these accessible to fellow science teachers in the hope that they will refer and/or utilize the proposed strategies and resources in their daily practice.
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Ahlberg, Jennie, and Amanda Persson. "Högläsningens metoder och effekter ur ett pedagog- och elevperspektiv." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Lärarutbildningen (LUT), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-33641.
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Syftet med föreliggande studie är att belysa både pedagogers och elevers tal kring högläsningen i undervisningen i en årskurs 2. Detta gör vi genom att undersöka pedagogiska metoder kring högläsning i undervisningen och pedagogernas uppfattning om högläsningens effekter. Arbetet grundar sig på ett sociokulturellt perspektiv och genomsyras av psykologen Vygotskijs tankar om lärande. Våra frågeställningar är: Vilka metoder kan användas kring högläsning i undervisningen?, Vilka effekter anser pedagogerna att högläsningen kan ha? samt Hur upplever eleverna högläsningen och arbetet kring denna?Undersökningen baseras på intervjuer med en klasslärare och en fritidspedagog i den aktuella klassen för att kunna belysa hur deras tal om effekterna av de metoder som används under arbetet med högläsningen. För att få ett bredare material att utgå ifrån belyser vi även elevernas perspektiv om hur de upplever högläsning och arbetet kring högläsningen. Eleverna fick genom text och bild besvara två frågor om vad de tycker om högläsningen i skolan. Empirinsamlingen avslutades med två observationer för att få en bild av den dagliga verksamheten. Vi observerade pedagogerna under två olika lektionstillfällen för att få en bild av hur högläsning användes i undervisningen samt för att vi skulle få ett komplement till våra intervjuer med pedagogerna.Det resultat vi kom fram till var de metoder som pedagoger kan använda sig av kring högläsning kan vara grupparbete, återberättande och bokprat. Pedagogerna anser att högläsning bidrar till många positiva effekter, exempelvis ökat ordförråd samt inspiration till egen läsning.. Attityden till högläsning bland eleverna är positiv, då de upplever att högläsning är roligt och meningsfullt. Vår slutsats av studien är att deltagarna i vår undersökning anser att högläsning är ett viktigt och uppskattat moment i undervisningen, där effekterna och metoderna är många.
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Hoopes, Stacey Lea. "An Overview of Instructional Activities Used Before, During, and After Reading to Scaffold Guided Reading and Shared Reading Instruction." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2009. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/1708.
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the use of instructional activities that take place before reading, during reading, and after reading in guided reading and shared reading routines in elementary school classrooms in Utah school districts. This project used extant data from classroom observations to answer questions about how the observed activities were used as part of guided and shared reading routines in second and third grades within the five school districts of the Brigham Young University-Public School Partnership. The results of this study showed that there were differences in how teachers implemented the before reading, during reading, and after reading activities for guided and shared reading. The average teacher devoted more time to instructional activities during the reading portion of guided or shared reading than to instructional activities used before reading or after reading as part of the guided reading or shared reading routines. Differences between frequencies for instructional activities done after reading in guided reading differed significantly between second and third grade classrooms in the study. This study determined that school districts in the study had significantly different frequencies for instructional activities implemented before, during, and after reading in guided reading. These significant results and the results of other comparisons were used to provide insights about the possible implications of this study.
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Wema, Evans F. "Developing information literacy programmes for public university libraries in Tanzania : a case study of the University of Dar es Salaam." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2006. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/10918.
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The aim of the research was to develop a training course that inculcated infonnation literacy that could be implemented by staff at the University of Dar es Salaam library (Tanzania), in order to provide students with appropriate infonnation literacy skills to meet their educational goals. The course was developed from an integration of knowledge from infonnation behaviour research and educational theory with current perspectives of infonnation literacy from Infonnation and Library Science (ILS). The ultimate goal of the research was to create a framework that would be used by public university libraries in Tanzania to teach infonnation literacy courses. The study was carried out in two parts. In the first implementation "pilot" programme, the course was tested by involving librarians who took the entire course, in order to see whether the same course structure could be used to implement to the Masters of Education students. Following adaptations made on the first course, a second course programme was implemented to Masters of Education students by two librarians who attended the first implementation "pilot" programme. Therefore, the success of the course was partly judged on whether it effectively enabled knowledge transfer from the librarians to students. Data collection methods were predominantly qualitative, although quantitative methods in tenns of diagnostic tests were also used. The tests were used to evaluate trainees' knowledge ofinfonnation literacy before and after the course to provide an indication of changes in knowledge. Qualitative methods used included semistructured interviews with librarians and academic staff at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania in order to make sure that assumptions made about students' knowledge of infonnation literacy and the kind of problems experienced by students were correct. Other methods included quizzes, exercises, group reflection and presentations that related to each stage in the course. These methods served to indicate trainees' understanding of what was taught, reflections on the leaming process and provided feedback for improvements on the course. The major findings showed that there was a recognized need for infonnation literacy and that problems such as unfamiliarity with categories of infonnation sources, analysis, synthesis, evaluation and use, were experienced in Tanzania as was the case in other "Western" countries. In addition, librarians were able to transfer skills learned to students, who in turn used the same course materials to teach fellow students who did not participate in the course. Furthermore, the design of the course was facilitated by the integration of Information and library science (ILS) approaches to information literacy with the knowledge of information behaviour and pedagogic theory. The thesis provides recommendations for the library and information curricula to introduce information literacy, teaching information literacy in a holistic way and with librarians participating in teaching and research. In addition, the study recommended that librarians should facilitate the development of information literacy in primary and secondary schools.
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Wagner, Brandon Joel. "Integrating K-W-L Prompts into Science Journal Writing: Can Simple Question Scaffolding Increase Student Content Knowledge?" PDXScholar, 2014. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2127.
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Writing-to-learn strategies have been administered in the past to enrich student learning. The purpose of this study was to see if K-W-L prompts in science journal writing could benefit student content knowledge within biology. Two high school biology classes were provided with learning journals. The journals given to the students during the treatment unit were provided with K-W-L question prompts to guide student learning while during the comparison unit students were given an open ended writing assignment. Pre and posttests were administered to determine student-learning gains. Student motivations and opinions of the treatment were collected through student interviews. The combined results were used to determine to what extent could K-W-L prompts in science journal writing influence comprehension of content knowledge. This study found there to be no difference in student learning gains when utilizing the K-W-L literacy strategy versus another free-writing activity. When scored, student K-W-Ls total scores did correlate to student success on unit tests. This opens up the potential for K-W-Ls to serve as an adequate tool for formative assessment. Here the K-W-L could be expanded to enrich student question asking, potentially aid students learning English, and potentially be used by students without teacher scaffolding.
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Magnusson, Anna, and Johanna Lindsjö. "”Mamma skrivde till mig sen bara skrivde jag efter”." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-31186.
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Denna studie har som syfte att se var och i vilka sammanhang, barn i förskoleåldern menar att de lär sig läsa och skriva. I denna studie behandlar vi sju barns berättelser om vem som spelar störst roll för deras läs- och skrivutveckling, hur de lär sig skriva samt var och i vilka sammanhang de lär sig. Kvalitativ metod, med intervjuer av sju barn ligger till grund för resultat- och analysarbetet, som i denna studie främst visade på att de deltagande barnen lär sig i mötet med sina viktiga andra för att utvecklas till läsande och skrivande individer. Det är också viktigt att poängtera att barns lärande inte startar vid en viss ålder, utan sker kontinuerligt och läs- och skrivutvecklingen börjar i nästan alla fall redan i förskoleåldern (Fast 2011, s. 38f). Denna studie är ett komplement till tidigare genomförda studier, men här utgår vi främst från barnens perspektiv för att försöka fylla det tomrum vi tyckte verkade finnas inom forskningsområdet. Genom intervjuerna med barnen kom vi fram till de resultat som behandlas och analyseras i det fjärde kapitlet. Resultaten av vår studie visar att de intervjuade barnen beskriver att de lär sig mest hemma, tillsammans med familjemedlemmar och andra som står barnen nära, snarare än i förskolan. Resultaten visade också att barnen lär sig genom scaffolding. Barnens sociokulturella kapital gör att det finns skillnader dem emellan. De barn som medverkar i studien, och som fått erfara läsning och skrivning hemma, är också de barn som deltar i vår studie. Till exempel föräldrar verkar således ha en viktig roll för barnens läs- och skrivutveckling. Flera av barnen beskriver sina syskon och/eller föräldrar som viktiga personer som hjälpt dem att utveckla sitt läsande och skrivande. Resultaten från studien förankrar vi i den sociokulturella teorin, där man ser på lärande och kunskap som något som uppstår mellan individer, då vi finner den användbar för att förstå barns syn på sin egen läs- och skrivutveckling.
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Nyström, Ia. "Eleven och Lärandemiljön : En studie av barns lärande med fokus på läsning och skrivning." Doctoral thesis, Växjö universitet, Institutionen för pedagogik, 2002. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-383.
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The thesis describes what happens when twelve students learn to read and write. The main purpose of this thesis is to shed light on the learning process of the students, with respect to reading and writing, based on the specific learning environment. Special attention is given to the relationship between the individual and the environment. It is the author's strong belief that one needs to look at both these aspects together. Further, the intention of the thesis is not to compare different environments in terms of good or bad, but rather to use them as examples of situated social practices for reading. The investigation has an ethnographic approach and is based primarily on qualitative data collected by personal studies of the students' reading and writing processes in the classroom environment. Secondly, estimations of the students' reading abilities have been performed in order to validate various kinds of data. Twelve students have been studied from August 1998 when they started in first grade and until March 2001. The analysis derives from Vygotskij's theory, the sociocultural perspective, and to get a better understanding of differences and similarities between the environments, Bernstein's theory about the visible and invisible pedagogic was used. The result indicates that in a classroom, students show a variety of specific behaviours related to the setting in different ways. The conclusion of this thesis is that it is urgent to make teachers observe and pay attention to the behaviour pattern of each group of readers. Teachers hereby receive a tool that gives them a chance to identify students with negative patterns in purpose to make them choose a constructive way of learning. Through guidance the teacher may transfer successful strategies and/or design situations that make it possible for the students to discover an alternative way of learning.
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Mattsson, Kershaw Anneli. "Academic English in CLIL-programs : Classroom practices that promote or hinder proficiency inacademic English vocabulary." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Engelska, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-27458.
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English CLIL-instruction in Sweden is supposed to be beneficial to students who want to improve their academic English vocabulary proficiency in preparation for studies or employment abroad. However, recent research shows that there is no difference in academic English proficiency between students in upper secondary school CLIL-programs and students in regular upper secondary schools in Sweden. Furthermore, educational researchers question if CLIL-programs in Sweden qualify to be defined as CLIL-instruction since Swedish translanguaging is extensively used which does not make the programs 100% Englishmedium instruction. Through teacher observations and questionnaires, this study investigates the classroom practices at a CLIL-program in Sweden in addition to ask the CLIL-teachers about their teaching strategies in regards to promoting students’ acquisition, development, and use of academic English. The findings include that the classroom practices are in accordance with practices considered beneficial to students’ proficiency in academi c English by numerous previous studies. In addition, all the teachers questioned in this study purposely work to support and develop students’ academic language proficiency in their respective subject areas and across the curriculum. The study also found four possible factors that perhaps can undermine the acquisition, development and use of academic English vocabulary and those include the following: First, the teachers believe that the students are already sufficiently fluent in academic English, and thus concentrate more on content than on language in their instruction. Secondly, extensive translanguaging in the classroom is common in addition to the students’ habit of speaking Swedish to each other in stude nt-tostudent communication. Thirdly, the students do not receive the corresponding level of education in their native language of Swedish as they do in English, which can have detrimental effects on their abilities to develop their English past their Swedish language abilities. Finally, classroom practices that are not inclusive of all students can work to undermine the acquisition and use of academic English vocabulary.
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Hellström, Emma. "Eleverna som gick vilse i Googleland : En kvalitativ studie om tre yrkeskategorier inom skolverksamheten och deras syn på de fem förmågor som krävs för att hantera digitala texter." Thesis, Jönköping University, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-53753.
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Ett av skolans uppdrag är att utbilda medborgare till att besitta en digital kompetens. Detta för att klara av den ständiga digitala utveckling som sker i vår moderna värld. Eleverna möter olika slags texter i skolan, både tryckta och digitala. Somliga elever har även digitala läromedel, vilket innebär att de digitala texterna blir något som de möter dagligen. Samtidigt har forskning visat att det finns fem förmågor som behöver behärskas för att kunna hantera digitala texter. Dessa fem förmågor står inte explicit utskrivna i läroplanen för grundskolan, förskoleklass och fritidshem (Lgr11) utan lärarna behöver på egen hand försöka tolka in dem i sin planering av undervisningen. Frågan blir således: Har läromedelsutvecklarna dessa fem förmågor i åtanke när de producerar sina digitala läromedel? Hur anser högskolelärarna och grundskollärarna att de tar hänsyn till förmågorna i sin undervisning? Studien har därmed som syfte att öka kunskapen om vilka sätt som finns bland de tre yrkeskategorierna att behandla dessa fem förmågor som forskning har visat krävs för hantering av digitala texter. Syftet ämnas uppnås genom två frågeställningar som behandlar hur yrkeskategorierna möjliggör utveckling i de fem förmågorna och vilka didaktiska val de gör med hänsyn till de fem förmågorna i sin undervisning. För att möjliggöra en uppfyllelse av syftet och dess frågeställningar har en fenomenografisk ansats använts tillsammans med en kvalitativ metod i form av semistrukturerade intervjuer. Fortsatt analyserades materialet ur ett sociokulturellt – samt didaktiskt perspektiv. Studiens resultat visade att stöttning är viktig för att eleverna ska kunna utveckla förmågorna. Detta är i enlighet med vad den sociokulturella teorin betonar som viktigt. Samtliga informanter visade kunskap om vilka konsekvenser som brister i förmågorna resulterar i, men huruvida undervisningen anpassades efter förmågorna varierade beroende på lärare. Det digitala läromedlet kan dock ge fördelaktiga förkunskaper för digitala texter vilket verkar gynna eleverna när de sedan är ute och Googlar på internet. Slutligen delger samtliga lärare att tidsbrist har en negativ påverkan på deras möjligheter till stöttning i undervisningen. Grundskollärarna ansåg även att deras digitala kompetens inte var tillräcklig och att fortbildning efterfrågades.One of the school's missions is to educate citizens to possess digital skills. This is to cope with the constant digital development that takes place in our modern world. Students encounter different kinds of texts in school, both printed and digital. Some pupils have digital teaching materials as well, which means that the digital texts become something that they encounter daily. At the same time, research has shown that there are five abilities that need to be mastered to be able to handle digital texts. These five abilities are not explicitly stated in the curriculum for the compulsory school, preschool class, and school-age educare (Lgr11), which results in teachers that need to interpret the abilities into their own teaching. The question is: do teaching aid developers have these five abilities in mind when producing their digital teaching materials? How do university teachers and primary school teachers consider that they take the abilities into account in their teaching? The study thus aims to increase knowledge of the ways that exist among the three professional categories to deal with these five abilities that research has shown are required for handling digital texts. The purpose is intended to be achieved through two questions at issue that deal with how the professional categories enable development in the five abilities and what didactic choices they make regarding the five abilities in their teaching. To enable the purpose and its questions to be fulfilled, a phenomenographic approach has been used together with a qualitative method in the form of semi-structured interviews. The material was analyzed from a socio-cultural and didactic perspective. The results of the study showed that support is important for pupils to be able to develop their abilities. This is in line with what sociocultural theory emphasizes as important. All informants showed knowledge of the consequences that shortcomings in the abilities result in, but whether the teaching was adapted to the abilities varied depending on the teacher. However, the digital teaching aid can provide beneficial prior knowledge for digital texts, which seems to benefit the pupils when they are out Googling on the internet. Finally, all teachers report that lack of time has a negative impact on their opportunities for support in teaching. The primary school teachers also felt that their digital competence was not sufficient, and that further education was in demand.
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Vasquez, Jorge. "Spanish Language Learning and Supporting Strategies in Mixed Classrooms at the Secondary Level." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2018. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6920.
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Students in the United States take language courses for various reasons. Many Spanish heritage language learners (HLLs) and the majority of second language learners (L2Ls) enroll in Spanish classes in the United States. Based on state demographics, sometimes immigrants from Spanish-speaking countries join HLLs and L2Ls in mixed-classrooms. Many times, these groups take classes together, even though their language abilities, motivations, and linguistic needs differ significantly. Such a learning setting presents challenges for them as well as for instructors. This study builds upon and reinforces findings from previous studies regarding teaching mixed-classes. Data were gathered from 41 students taking AP Spanish at the secondary level through pre- and post-questionnaires, journal reflections, observations and interview with four of the participants. Findings reveal that all groups enjoyed working together in a mixed-classroom setting. Additionally, their language learning experience progressed as they worked collaboratively and learned reciprocally. The study found that scaffolded debates and class discussions aided students with their language learning. Furthermore, the study shows the need to help students with reading and literacy skills, listening skills and acquisition of Hispanic cultures. Lastly, the study also shows the importance of instructors' approaches, practices and materials to teaching mixed-classes and the need for focused and individualized instruction for better results with each group.
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Ljubomirovic, Marija. "Genredrag i argumenterandetexter : En studie av undervisningens betydelse för eleversskrivande i årskurs 6." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för svenska språket (SV), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-105426.
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Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka hur undervisning med genrepedagogiska drag påverkar elevers argumenterande texter i åk 6. Studien utgår från tre frågeställningar som ligger till grund för undersökningen. Dessa frågor rör vilka genredrag elever använder i argumenterande texter före undervisning, hur undervisningen genomförs och vilka genredrag elever använder i argumenterande texter efter undervisningen. Materialet för studien baseras på observationer av genrepedagogiskt baserad undervisning och elevtextanalyser av argumenterande texter skrivna av elever i årskurs 6. Till grund för studien ligger den sociokulturella teorin där läraren stöttar eleverna i sitt lärande samt cykeln för undervisning och lärande. För att analysera texterna före och efter undervisning används en checklista med genretypiska drag för den argumenterande genren. Studien visar tydligt att före undervisning med genrepedagogiska drag har eleverna svårigheter med att skriva väl fungerande argumenterande texter. Med stöd av undervisning om genredrag i argumenterande texter utvecklar eleverna sitt skrivande och skriver i högre grad texter med genrespecifika drag. Dock visar studien att ytterligare stöttning av läraren och mer tid för att lära sig de genretypiska dragen för en text behövs för att eleverna ska klara av att göra egna kreativa val i sina texter.
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Erdal, Sumeyra. "Språkutvecklande samhällskunskapsundervisning : En studie om hur lärarna i årskurs 4 arbetar i sin samhällskunskapsundervisning för att det ska bli språkutvecklande." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Lärarutbildningen, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-34074.
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The purpose of the study is to investigate what adaptations grade 4 teachers four make to language-develop in the social science classroom. This includes the challenges that may arise and support teachers they need in order to achieve anguage development goals. Using qualitative methods, in the form on interview and observation. Questions that will try to be answered are; 1. How the teachers take into account students language development in the teaching of fourth grade social sciences? 2. What are the difficulties with developing language in social science? 3.What support does the teachers consider necessary for conducting a language-developing social science education? Research has shown that language development education is contextual and is rich with opportunities for interaction. The teacher plays an important role in creatinga context that benefits students, knowledge, linguistic and personal development. However, research has also shown that many teachers lack the skills necessaryto work with language and knowledge developmentin their lessons. In this study, teachers take into account the parents' pre-knowledge and linguistic background while working with different methods based on interaction to develop the student's subject and language ability. The adaptation of different abilities was the biggest difficulty reported by most teachers. Interviewed teachers have also recognized the difficulty of developing students' school languages. According to teachers, collegial learning, language teaching and language development tools, the best basis for language education is education.
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Hallesson, Yvonne. "Textsamtal som lässtöttande aktivitet : Fallstudier om textsamtals möjligheter och begränsningar i gymnasieskolans historieundervisning." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för språkdidaktik, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-115491.
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This thesis investigates how various text-talks, i.e. text-focused classroom discussions, may scaffold students’ reading of specialised texts in upper secondary school. The study consists of qualitative case studies based on classroom observations of two teachers’ History instruction, focusing on parts defined as text-talks. An intervention study was conducted where one teacher worked with two text-talk approaches. The research questions regard how students move in relation to the text in the text-talks and how text content is incorporated, what scaffolding structures emerge, and whether and how the text-talks differ. A secondary aim is to generate theories concerning the potentials and limitations of text-talk as a reading scaffold. Analyses were done in terms of text movability to show reading positions, intertextual cohesion to show relations between source text and text-talk, and scaffolding which includes peer scaffolding, teacher scaffolding and the text-talks as a scaffold per se. A methodological contribution is the development of a model for content-based analyses of authentic text-talks. The results show that in text-talks that work as a scaffold, students take the expected positions toward the text, and the talks are clearly related to the source text, by means of lexical and conjunctive cohesion that is often varied and built-out. For more demanding texts, the students show dynamic text movability and move between exploring contents, subject field and context. Other characteristics are either peer scaffolding showing dialogicity and negotiation of meaning, or teacher scaffolding enabling students to progress and develop tools for text reception. The intervention approaches seem to scaffold reading to a greater extent than text-talks within ordinary instruction where the framing is weak. In conclusion, the results suggest that both student- and teacher-led text-talks may scaffold reading, but they need to be well planned and prepared with a structured framing.
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Karlsson, Lina. "Språkutvecklande stödstrukturer : En observations- och intervjustudie om lärares arbete med läsning i SO i åk 4–5." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för svenska språket (SV), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-90802.
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The curriculum for social studies is designed in a way where knowledge is assessed through the students’ expressive language skills. Much of the knowledge is also expected to be gained through reading. The purpose of this study is to examine what types of scaffolding teachers can create for students reading social studies nonfiction texts in grades 4–5. The study is based on observations and interviews with three teachers. The material was subsequently analysed based on characteristics in language development methods, showing that teachers do not emphasise the importance of language for learning when teaching. The results also show that students, to a small extent, are used as supporting resources for one another and that teachers themselves take up much of the talking space in the classroom. During structured oral text instruction teachers request short answers, that are evaluable rather than allowing time for interrogative and reflective discussions. The effect of the teacher centered teaching is that the students are passivate instead of challenged with cognitively demanding tasks where scaffolding can enable a potentially higher learning level.
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Eklund, Julia, and Nellie Mildh. "Att skapa samhällsvetare - Ämneslitteracitet i samhällskunskap." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-36353.
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The aim of conducting the following research is to observe how teachers in upper secondary school create conditions for developing disciplinary literacy in social science. Additionally, the aim is to examine how teachers reflect upon their practices regarding pupils’ development of disciplinary literacy. In order to carry out the aim of the research overview, two research questions were constructed. The theoretical foundation of the research consists of Vygotsky’s socio-cultural perspective, which includes the concepts mediation, appropriation, scaffolding and the Zone of Proximal Development. Furthermore, Bloom’s Taxonomy of Cognitive Learning Objectives was used in order to provide a cognitive perspective. Research on disciplinary literacy, mainly that of Shanahan and Shanahan, combined with social science research formed an additional framework for analysis. The data consists of both qualitative, semi-structured interviews with two social science teachers and collected teaching material. Consequently, a qualitative content analysis was conducted using the aforementioned theoretical framework. Results show that teachers consider perspective-taking an essential ability in social science and that the development of disciplinary literacy is a linear progression from simpler, factual concepts to complex, analytical concepts. Further, social science is characterized by its large content-specific vocabulary. In addition, teachers experience that pupils struggle with scientific reading and writing, which are skills that are viewed as essential. The chosen didactic methods of the teachers include authentic texts and examples, and content-specific vocabulary was viewed as a key component for developing disciplinary literacy. With the zone of proximal development in mind, the teachers consciously challenge the students with more complex material.Finally, the implications of the results are discussed in relation to previous research, the theoretical background and the Swedish curricula for upper secondary school. Lastly, suggestions for future research are discussed.
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Wejrum, Marie. "Lästriangeln – en modell för systematisk läsundervisning." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för svenska språket (SV), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-61048.
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International student assessments show that reading comprehension among Swedish pupils has decreased and the Swedish school system has become less successful in compensating for the variety of pupils’ background. The aim of this study is to examine whether the reading triangle, which is an adaption of the text triangle, provides a beneficial model to use at lower secondary level to enhance advanced reading comprehension and to systematize the teaching of reading on the basis of models developed in research on writing. The study draws on Anglo-Saxon and Nordic research on the teaching of reading and writing, as well as theories of metacognition and visual learning. The results show that the reading triangle, after some modifications, can serve as a tool to make pupils aware of their reading process and at what level they read and analyse texts. Moreover, the model can be a tool for teachers to systematize their teaching of reading and clarifying on what levels they need to focus when planning their teaching of reading.
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Lundwall, Sarah. "”Tänk dig att du ska baka en kladdkaka…” : Stöttningspraktiker hos lärare som undervisar i icke-språkcentrerade kurser." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Lärarutbildningen, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-38308.
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The aim of this study is to examine in what way teachers in upper secondary school who teaches non-language centered courses uses scaffolding within the theoretical context of language-based learning to support their students’ learning. The study will also examine if there is a difference depending on what subjects the teacher is licensed to teach in. The main methods used are observations and audio recordings of three different teachers during a total of six lessons. The material also consists of interviews with the observed teachers to give additional information about the teachers’ backgrounds and thoughts about language-based learning in relation to their teaching methods. The study is based on a sociocultural and cognitive approach along with the principles of scaffolding based in genre-based pedagogy and Jim Cummins’ theory on how to achieve language proficiency within a school-based contexed and its specialised domains. The results show that all teachers use scaffolding by creating an extensive context for learning within each domain. This contextual scaffolding helps the students learn the new language domain. The teachers also show variations in how they scaffold depending on the subject and student group with more abstract subjects being provided with more concrete exemplification. The conclusions drawn from this is that teachers use scaffolding to help students build the field of the domain and provide scaffolding according to the different subjects and student groups' current conditions and need for cognitive challenges.
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Brinkley, Steven. "Reading Heart of Darkness in the ESL/EFL Classroom : A Case Study in Student Response to Literary Didactic Methodologies Designed to Enhance Aesthetic and Efferent Reading of a Literary Text in Language Instruction." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för utbildningsvetenskap (UV), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-39257.
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The purpose of this degree project has been to examine the implications of the provision of certain methodological support mechanisms, what has often been referred to as "instructional scaffolding" in literary didactics, to assist students in the ESL/EFL classroom in their interaction with the various literary texts into which they come into contact during their English language education at the upper secondary level in Sweden. My primary interest has been to gauge the response of the students involved in this study to the particular types of literary didactic methods utilized, for example, regarding their effectiveness in aiding the learning process as well as their impact on the literary, or aesthetic, experience itself. An analysis of student responses to a literature instruction module based on a reading of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness will demonstrate that certain forms of literary didactic methods in general, and significantly, particular forms of what can be conceptualized as instructional scaffolding, play a crucial role for both the learning process and the student's aesthetic experience of literature.
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Capelo, Carla. "WHEN WRITING BECOMES NIGHTMARE: HELPING STUDENTS PINPOINT WRITING TOPICS." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/626.
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When deciding on topics for academic research papers, many students face difficulties that vary from choosing themes whose scope is too extensive to be satisfactorily analyzed in the given task, to selecting topics that are too limited, to not being able to make a decision on a topic at all. Such struggles seem to manifest themselves in both native and non-native speakers of English. Despite extensive research on the writing process and its strategies, be it for academic writing or other genres, and even research focused on writers’ difficulties, previous research has found little about the troubles students must overcome when deciding on a research topic, and how to overcome them.
This study employed a qualitative case study design with two graduate students in a master’s program in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, who were enrolled in two sections of a course on research, to investigate these students’ writing processes as they defined a topic for their literature review research paper. Through an in-depth analysis of samples of their writing in combination with their verbal reports, collected during individual semi-structured interviews, this case study examined how two graduate students successfully calibrated their topics, which strategies they employed to that end, and how their instructors’ actions helped them in the process. Consequently, the findings shed light on instructional practices, and their implications for teachers’ training programs.
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Randau, Ulf. "Other People’s Darkness : Difficult empathy and villains in two novels by Graham Greene." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-96236.
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The thesis aims to mesh narrative theory with theory of empathy in a study of two novels by Graham Greene, A Gun for Sale (1936) and Brighton Rock (1938), where the use of narrative building blocks from the crime thriller genre and the empathy that the characters may evoke are analysed. The second aim is to discuss how to implement the rather complex works of Graham Greene in the EFL classroom. The key analytical devices for this essay are narratology and empathy, particularly difficult empathy. Narrative scaffolding helps students to discern recurring themes, character types and functions different in narratives, thus enabling them to transfer reading experiences to other texts as well. This thesis argues that Greene’s A Gun for Sale and Brighton Rock are useable in the EFL classroom, not despite, but because their great complexity, as discussions of difficult empathy in villainous characters and moral dilemmas will help develop fundamental values such as empathy and understanding of others, thus widening students’ understanding of both different kinds of literature and the world in which they live.
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Chang, Hsin, and 張欣. "A Study of Literacy Scaffolding Strategies in Thematic Teaching." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/09591406407959525849.
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This study investigated a teacher’s literacy scaffolding strategies in thematic teaching and young childrem’s responses based on classroom observation, interview, and related documents. In this case study, the teacher used eight discourse scaffolding strategies in thematic teaching. These strategies were “direct revealing”, “confirming”, “repeating”, “supporting”, “requesting”, “questioning”, “inquiring”, and “organizing”. “Direct revealing” is to assist young children in discovering how dominoes are constructed and arrayed; “confirming” is to help young children clarify concepts and the objectives of their behavior for better comprehension; “repeating” is to assist young children in expressing themselves and to motivate them to learn by imitated peer’s creation; “supporting” can enhance young children’s willingness and confidence to participate in activities; “requesting” is to remind young children to listen attentively and to guide them to correct behaviors; “questioning” is to motivate young children to think about the multiple ways of triggering the collapse of dominoes; “inquiring” is a way to invoke creative thinking in young children and lead them to identify the root of the problem; “organizing” can facilitate comprehension of a specific issue in young children. Besides, this teacher used four reading and writing scaffolding strategies, including “graphics and symbols”, “writing annotation”, and“imitative writing”, and “discussion poster”. “Graphics and symbols” can help young children concentrate on discussion of inconsistencies in connection and spacing; “writing annotation” is to assist young children in writing down the key ideas in their discussion and designs to germinate their interest in words; “imitative writing” is to satisfy young children’s interest in words; “discussion poster” offers an opportunity for young children to broaden their vision and increase their meta-cognitive skills through reading figures and tables. Based on results of this study, the author provided suggestions to future researchers and kindergarten teachers interested in applying literacy scaffolding in thematic teaching.
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Feng, Ching Chao. "The Cooperative Classroom: Scaffolding EFL Elementary Learners' English Literacies Through the Picture Word Inductive Model -- The Journey of Three Teachers in Taiwan." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/27578.
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Children in Taiwan start their English classes in grade three. As they progress through the grades, they generally do not demonstrate high English proficiency. In addition, they also gradually lose their interest in learning English (“Education Minister,” 2009). To respond to the problem of achievement and motivation related to learning English, the Picture Word Inductive Model and Cooperative Learning were integrated as an alternative approach to the current instructional method in order to more effectively improve the Taiwanese elementary learners’ English literacy and highly motivate their interest in acquiring a foreign language. The focus of this study was to discover the participating teachers’ and students’ perspectives toward this new teaching approach and to understand the difficulties they encounter during the process of initiating and implementing an educational change.
This eleven-month qualitative study involved three elementary English teachers and their 71 students from grades 4, 5 and 6 as participants. The data were collected through field notes from onsite classroom observations, teachers’ weekly reflective journals, in-class video recordings, and transcripts of teachers’ monthly meetings and personal interviews with the participants. Although one teacher and her students had to withdraw from the study because of intense pressure from school authorities and parents, the results of this study indicate that the remaining teachers and students highly recommended implementing this alternative approach in English classes and believed that this new way of teaching not only helped students become more autonomous and responsible for their own learning, but also provided them with more opportunities to interact with their peers.
Although having doubts about this new approach at the beginning of the study and encountering difficulties during the process of implementation, the two teachers reported that their students’ English vocabulary had increased and they were able to compose meaningful English paragraphs as a result of this non-traditional strategy. The students also revealed that their motivation toward learning English had improved. Furthermore, the results show that support from school authorities and parents is essential to the initiation and maintenance of a change in education settings.
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Lawrence, Jeanette Wilhelmina. "The approaches that foundation phase grade 3 teachers use to promote effective literacy teaching : a case study." Diss., 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/4839.
Full textAbstract:
The changing role of literacy in primary education, with its emphasis on the acknowledgement of the
learner’s values, beliefs, culture, background and language is the focus of this study.
The research was concerned with understanding the literacy practices of Foundation Phase Grade 3
teachers who are able to intentionally promote and mediate literacy acquisition among their learners.
A qualitative design was used to describe the approaches of effective literacy teachers.
The research study discovered that while the teachers made use of a number of teaching methods
that underpinned a de-contextualised and constructivist approach, a socio-cultural approach to
literacy was lacking. The results call for a broadening of the definition of literacy; one that
acknowledges the socio-cultural background of the learners in developing a literacy disposition that
prepares learners for a changing world.Educational Studies
M. Ed. (Didactics)
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Giguère, Laura. "Comportements maternels et réussite scolaire : l'influence de l'étayage et de l'affectivité au préscolaire." Thèse, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/7868.
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Westbrook, Joanna Tonita. "Combating the Matthew effect for English language learners : making thinking visible in the secondary English classroom." Diss., 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2872.
Full textAbstract:
This study sets out to answer the call for explicit instruction in critical thinking for ELL.
Using action research and qualitative methodology, I examine the effect of implementing the
cognitive apprenticeship paradigm with ELL studying in a mainstream secondary English class
using the American curriculum. I center instruction on authentic texts and scaffold critical
literacy and thinking tasks for instructional interventions. The data generated by the study
includes written responses and reflections by the participants. This data is analyzed using
research into cognitive theory and critical thinking pedagogy. The results support the cognitive
apprenticehip model as one means for improving the higher literacy of ELL, regardless of level
and background. The findings of this study contribute to the discussion of how to bridge the
achievement gap between ELL and their native speaking peers and provide an avenue to advance
their academic success.English Studies
M.A. (with specialisation in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of other languages))