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Hammond, Kendall – Research-publishing.net, 2022
Kendall Hammond, Associate Principal at Nollamara Primary and Intensive English School in Perth, explains how their commitment to explicit direct instruction made Sounds-Write a natural choice for the teaching of reading and spelling in a school where three-quarters of students have English as an additional language. [For the complete volume,…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Program Implementation
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Barker, Bernadette; Di Mauro, Susanna – TESOL in Context, 2023
Reporting a Brisbane Catholic Education (BCE) project spanning 2018-2020, this paper looks at what happened when early primary English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EAL/D) learners were given eReaders with multilingual texts to take home to read together with their families. The shift in pedagogy to view our learners as multilingual and…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Family Environment, Catholic Schools, Elementary School Students
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Sawyer, Wayne; Singh, Michael; Zhao, Dacheng – English in Australia, 2009
The issue of boys' literacy has been explicitly named as "dangerous territory"--difficult to negotiate in terms of the validity of "failure" rhetoric, the stereotyping of boys' abilities and interests and the intersection of gender with factors such as class and geographical location. In this article, we address the issue of…
Descriptors: Reading Improvement, Disadvantaged, Literacy, Males
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers