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Cavallaro, Christina J.; Sembiante, Sabrina F. – Language and Education, 2021
This paper explores how Culturally Sustaining Systemic Functional Linguistics (CSSFL), a theoretical and pedagogical approach, facilitates emergent bilingual (EB) students' engagement in explicit, equitable literacy practices within the unique context of a middle school intensive reading classroom. This design-based research (DBR) study documents…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Cultural Background, Functional Literacy, Middle School Students
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Özenç, Emine Gül; Dogan, M. Cihangir – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2014
This study aims to perform a validity-reliability test by developing the Functional Literacy Experience Scale based upon Ecological Theory (FLESBUET) for primary education students. The study group includes 209 fifth grade students at Sabri Taskin Primary School in the Kartal District of Istanbul, Turkey during the 2010-2011 academic year.…
Descriptors: Functional Literacy, Experience, Measures (Individuals), Test Construction
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Alberto, Paul A.; Fredrick, Laura; Hughes, Melissa; McIntosh, Laura; Cihak, David – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 2007
Definitions of literacy that focus solely on reading words provide too narrow a framework for many students with severe disabilities. Obtaining information from the environment may be accomplished in a variety of modes, such as visual literacy, which is the ability to discern meaning conveyed through images. A component of visual literacy is…
Descriptors: Visual Literacy, Disabilities, Visual Aids, Elementary School Students