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ERIC Number: EJ920678
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011-Apr
Pages: 10
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1081-3004
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Mountains and Pit Bulls: Students' Metaphors for College Transitional Reading and Writing
Paulson, Eric J.; Armstrong, Sonya L.
Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, v54 n7 p494-503 Apr 2011
In this article, we describe an approach to uncovering learners' literacy-oriented conceptualizations while they are enrolled in transitional, or developmental, reading and writing classes in a college context. This approach entailed eliciting and then analyzing the metaphors for academic literacies produced by students in 15 sections of a mandatory paired reading and writing course. We examine major themes that emerged from our analysis en route to promoting and discussing the utility of short stem prompts as being beneficial to instructors for understanding their students' conceptualizations of reading and writing for their own pedagogical purposes. We conclude with an extended pedagogical implications section, wherein we provide narrative descriptions of the use of metaphors in a college transitional reading class as practical suggestions for how such prompts can be used in classroom settings to support students' apprenticeships into academic literacy practices. (Contains 2 tables.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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