Focuses on the acquisition of mathematical language. Through asking how one can reflect on things one cannot name, examines students' opportunities to practice mathematical language in two classrooms. (Adjunct ERIC Clearinghouse for ESL Literacy Education) (Author/VWL)

Examines the role of a teacher in disrupting a discursive practice, allowing both teacher and learner space to form new empowering identities.(Adjunct ERIC Clearinghouse for ESL Literacy Education) (Author/VWL)

Focuses on the Xhosa, the illiterate indigenous people in the De Aar-region of the Northern Cape Province of South Africa. Describes the experiences and happenings around illiteracy and literacy training in the Nonzwakazi Township of De Aar in the Northern Cape. (Adjunct ERIC Clearinghouse for ESL Literacy Education) (Author/VWL)

Develops an understanding of the literate learner who remains unreached in total literacy programs and campaigns initiated by the government of India. Examines the approaches used by the Kagad Kach Patra Kashtakari Panchayat (association of scrap waste pickers) to promote critical awareness and education among its members. (Adjunct ERIC…

Provides an account of engaging women in Spain who come from uneducated backgrounds in literacy circles through which Freirean radicalization approaches are being effectively pursued. (Adjunct ERIC Clearinghouse for ESL Literacy Education) (Author/VWL)

This article is based on Rotary literacy projects aimed at doing something substantial about the billion people in developing countries who are locked into an endless cycle of poverty, because they are illiterate. Two projects are highlighted--one in Turkey and one in Egypt--for illustration.(Adjunct ERIC Clearinghouse for ESL Literacy Education)…

Examines how experienced high school English teachers defined and gauged effective literature instruction. Finds teachers used differing models for literature instruction against which they gauged their effectiveness. Notes the kinds of models the teachers used determined whether or not they were willing to listen to feedback from students and to…

Examines how and when spelling begins when a group of Finnish kindergartners were provided guided and meaningful literacy opportunities. Demonstrates a substantial growth in children's spelling: some spelled almost all dictated words correctly, most used invented spelling, and only one child used random letter strings for a few words. Notes that…

Examines audience awareness in a 5-month naturalistic study of a fourth-grade classroom infused with technology and which valued collaboration and inquiry. Finds this classroom offered such pervasive opportunities for interaction between authors and classmates that it was difficult to distinguish between author and audience. Examines impact of…

Tests the validity of the Test of Phoneme Identities (TPI). Finds the TPI to be reliable and comparable to other phoneme awareness measures in predicting decoding ability; and to be more effective than a nursery rhyme and alphabet measures in predicting the number of lessons required for a student to learn to distinguish phonetic cues. (RS)

Suggests newspaper editors and television producers do not have much use for scholars or scholarship. Discusses ways major United States newspapers responded to the publication of the National Reading Panel's report. Suggest the relatively few stories published on the report was due to the fact that the message of the report was not new to…

Presents a qualitative study that problematizes the authors' classroom authority as they sought to enact critical inquiries with preservice teachers. Contends that preservice teachers must face the reality of having to function as authority figures while still maintaining a classroom conducive to meaning making. Provides three lenses through which…

Describes three case studies of young, middle-class European American female preservice teachers' experiences teaching literacy to diverse students literacy while enrolled in a field-based literacy methods course. Finds field experiences had a greater impact on one preservice teacher than on the other two in terms of enhanced capabilities for…

Presents case studies of three Anglo American preservice teachers as they worked with children of color and/or poverty. Asks the preservice teachers to look within to explore their own literary backgrounds in a reading-autobiography assignment. Argues the combination of autobiographical accounts with reflective field experiences helps preservice…

Examines the impact of conducting a case-study research project on a preservice teacher's professional development. Finds the research provided a context for posing meaningful questions and promoted professional reflection for the teachers in terms of her prior beliefs and contexts for literacy development. Notes that qualitative procedures…