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Sandro R. Barros; Mary Juzwik; Kasun Gajasinghe – Journal of Literacy Research, 2024
Reluctance to embrace change leaves societies vulnerable to the rise of authoritarian political ideologies, particularly during times of socioeconomic and political crises. Public schools have seen an increase in incidents where fundamentalist groups with differing agendas have attempted to pressure them into adopting curricula whose literacy…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Nationalism, Public Education, Religion
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Chandrasoma, Ranamukalage; Jayathilake, Chitra – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2023
Characterized by specific and rigid boundaries of institutional practices and expectations in the academy, student writing is a synergistic literacy practice where students are required to construct generically diverse texts by yoking concepts with appropriate linguistic resources. This empirical study involving 196 first-year ESL students at a…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Essays, College Freshmen, Second Language Learning