Underpinned by positioning theory as both a theoretical lens and methodological tool, this paper asserts that educators can improvise asset-based discourse to create spaces for student writers to exercise agency. This single-case study, focusing on four education undergraduates situated as both writers and writing mentors in a literacy course and…

This study explores the development of academic language and discourse by third grade English language learners (ELLs) in the context of inquiry-based lessons taught in Spanish with a focus on student development of questioning skills during content-based instruction (Wadham, 2013). The qualitative, narrative study is guided by the following…

To pilot a peer literacy program, a pretest-posttest study was conducted involving seventy (70) students from Arellano High School as tutees and 12 De La Salle University-Manila College of Education students as reading tutors. Though the results suggest the lack of impact of the Program on the Reading Grades of the tutees, the tutors' journals…