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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Finnish and UK English Pre-Teen Children's Text Message Language and Its Relationship with Their Literacy Skills
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Plester, B.; Lerkkanen, M.-K.; Linjama, L. J.; Rasku-Puttonen, H.; Littleton, K. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2011
The aim of the study was to demonstrate the style of text language used by Finnish pre-teen texters (n = 65) and determine how their text language related to their traditional literacy skills, and compare descriptively these results with earlier results from work with young English texters. Three kinds of text messages (natural texts, elicited…
Descriptors: Literacy, Preadolescents, Language Styles, Language Usage
Using the Interactive Whiteboard to Resource Continuity and Support Multimodal Teaching in a Primary Science Classroom
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Gillen, J.; Littleton, K.; Twiner, A.; Staarman, J. K.; Mercer, N. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2008
All communication is inherently multimodal, and understandings of science need to be multidimensional. The interactive whiteboard offers a range of potential benefits to the primary science classroom in terms of relative ease of integration of a number of presentational and ICT functions, which, taken together, offers new opportunities for…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Case Studies, Science Curriculum, Elementary School Science
Interactions with Talking Books: Phonological Awareness Affects Boys' Use of Talking Books
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Littleton, K.; Wood, C.; Chera, P. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2006
Framed by current concerns about boys' attainment in literacy, this paper investigates the potential of talking books software to support the literacy development of male beginning readers. The study primarily considered whether typically developing boys who showed lower levels of attainment in phonological awareness would show a greater degree of…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Reading Skills, Reading Strategies, Males