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Scholes, Laura; Stahl, Garth; Comber, Barbara; McDonald, Sarah; Brownlee, Jo Lunn – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2021
Building on work that brings literacy instruction and student science learner identity together, this study addresses a gap in research related to student experiences as readers in middle school science classrooms. To understand student perceptions of pedagogical approaches to reading in science, we asked 45 middle school students to reflect on…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Middle School Students, Science Instruction, Content Area Reading
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Fujimoto, Yuka; Hagel, Pauline; Turner, Paul; Kattiyapornpong, Uraiporn; Zutshi, Ambika – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2011
Academics often treat students' discipline-specific literacy as unproblematic. In doing so they may underestimate the difficulties for university students as they move between subjects of study that may involve different disciplines, language genres and academic practices. This paper describes an initiative aimed at supporting students in reading…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Academic Discourse, Periodicals