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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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Poveda, David – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2011
This paper examines students' activity during reading hour in a multicultural secondary school in Madrid (Spain). It discusses two dimensions of the event: (1) How elements such as body posture, reading volume, reading speed and clarity were used by students to position themselves in relation to their linguistic competencies, the social order of…
Descriptors: Social Change, Foreign Countries, Reading Rate, Cultural Pluralism
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Casla, Marta; Poveda, David; Rujas, Irene; Cuevas, Isabel – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2008
Telling stories to children has been the focus of much research conducted mostly in schools and families while other settings where these practices also take place have been ignored. This article presents an analysis of storytelling events for children in three urban informal contexts: a library, a park and a children's bookstore in the city of…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Foreign Countries, Literacy, Urban Areas