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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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Kramer-Dahl, Anneliese; Teo, Peter; Chia, Alexius – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2007
In this paper we describe Expanding Textual Repertoires (ETR) as a framework for enhancing Singaporean secondary school teachers' understanding of the nature and effective teaching of the increasingly specialized language and literacy competencies required of their students for skilled participation in the curriculum areas at the secondary grade…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Intervention, Prior Learning, Secondary School Teachers
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Kramer-Dahl, Anneliese – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2004
In contrast to the commonsense discourse of youth-as-unruly widely circulating in the West, the kind of discourse which has become part of the Singapore public and academic imagination is one that mobilizes constructions of youth as narrowly achievement-oriented, as "exam-smart muggers", who "lack an enquiring mind". This study attempts to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literature Appreciation, Literacy Education, Cartoons