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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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Shawer, Saad – Journal of Literacy Research, 2013
This paper examines why communicative language teaching (CLT) fails to improve student learning in certain contexts by assessing two adult educators' communicative and noncommunicative practices through qualitative case studies, interviews, and participant observations. Results show no inherent CLT problems that prevent teachers from grasping…
Descriptors: Teaching Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages), Participant Observation, Case Studies
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Petrone, Robert – Journal of Literacy Research, 2013
The aim of this article is to expand the dialogue about how contemporary scholarship on the intersections between youth, literacy, and popular culture might inform literacy teacher education. Specifically, this article is designed to (a) orient literacy teacher educators who may be somewhat unfamiliar with this particular line of scholarship to a…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Popular Culture, Correlation, Culturally Relevant Education
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Vogler, Jane S.; Schallert, Diane L.; Park, Yangjoo; Song, Kwangok; Chiang, Yueh-hui Vanessa; Jordan, Michelle E.; Lee, SoonAh; Cheng, An-Chih Janne; Lee, Ji-Eun; Park, Jeong-bin; Sanders, Anke J. Z. – Journal of Literacy Research, 2013
Unlike previous research on computer-mediated discussions that has focused analysis on the final conversation as a completed product, this study was focused on the process by which the conversation was created. Using screen-capturing software, the on-screen actions of the nine participants in an online classroom discussion were recorded and…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Literacy, Educational Technology