Ivey & Broaddus (2007): Lit. Engagement among Adolescent Latino Students - 2 views

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  #1 Rebecca Ramirez on 05 Mar 12

   

  http://www.jstor.org/stable/20068318
  
  The authors of this article focus on the specific and unique needs of high school students who are recent arrivals to this country and thus, beginning readers and writers of the English language. Engagement in reading and writing was used as the method for literacy improvement for this population. For this study, engaged literacy practices consisted of two parts: 1.) self-selected reading and 2.) teacher-directed literacy activities. After their year-long study in a 7th/8th grade ESL classroom, the researchers found that they were able to increase student engagement in literacy activities. However, they texts that they found to be accessible to these students were substantially below their grade level. The researchers admit that it would have been an enormous challenge to provide the students with grade level material without also including their first-language into the instruction.

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner"><a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/20068318" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.jstor.org/stable/20068318</a> <br /> <br /> The authors of this article focus on the specific and unique needs of high school students who are recent arrivals to this country and thus, beginning readers and writers of the English language. Engagement in reading and writing was used as the method for literacy improvement for this population. For this study, engaged literacy practices consisted of two parts: 1.) self-selected reading and 2.) teacher-directed literacy activities. After their year-long study in a 7th/8th grade ESL classroom, the researchers found that they were able to increase student engagement in literacy activities. However, they texts that they found to be accessible to these students were substantially below their grade level. The researchers admit that it would have been an enormous challenge to provide the students with grade level material without also including their first-language into the instruction.</div>

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