ERIC Number: EJ819392
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2008-Nov
Pages: 15
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ISSN: ISSN-0155-0640
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Literacy Skills of Bachelor of Education (Primary) Students
Thwaite, Anne
Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, v31 n2 p20.1-20.15 Nov 2008
This article describes a project which identified the skills and abilities in written literacy of pre-service teachers, as well as their needs in this area. An intervention to address their needs is evaluated and its outcomes assessed, using a combination of quantitative and qualitative analyses. Results show that it is possible to improve these students' literacy skills and awareness even with such a short intervention as is described here. However, the intervention was most successful in dealing with lower-level linguistic variables such as punctuation and spelling, in contrast to higher-level text and paragraph structures.
Descriptors: Intervention, Literacy, Preservice Teachers, Foreign Countries, Educational Needs, Outcomes of Education, Qualitative Research, Statistical Analysis, Punctuation, Spelling, Grammar, Paragraph Composition, Writing Skills, Diagnostic Tests, Pretests Posttests, Interviews
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia
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