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Literacy Pub Date : 2025-03-27 DOI: 10.1111/lit.70001

Mark Betteney

{"title":"What do changes in policy regarding the teaching of phonics since 1995 disclose about successive UK education policymakers' understanding of early reading skills?","authors":"Mark Betteney","doi":"10.1111/lit.70001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/lit.70001","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the underpinning assumptions about the changing definition and parameters of early reading that are contained in successive UK Departments for Education (DfE, DfES, DfEE) documentation since 1995 and in Ofsted (Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills) reports and official blogs during the same period. It employs a chronological presentation of key phrases within policy documents and grey literature to identify and track the changing attitudes held by the writers of these documents regarding the skills deemed to be officially important in learning to read. The article acknowledges and explores the contested nature of the field. The exploration of these policy documents demonstrates that although UK National Curricula since 1995, including the current one, have consistently identified that skills of early reading are multifaceted, this contrasts strongly with policy, guidance and inspection frameworks in the same period, which have increasingly sat, and continue to sit, within a view of reading underpinned by rigid and narrow definitions of early reading in which phonics is pre-eminent.","PeriodicalId":46082,"journal":{"name":"Literacy","volume":"59 2","pages":"199-206"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/lit.70001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143919983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Teacher authorship as critical self-reflection and engagement in authentic student writing 教师作为批判性自我反思和参与真实的学生写作的作者

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Literacy Pub Date : 2025-03-24 DOI: 10.1111/lit.70000

Breanya Hogue

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Editorial: The Writing Realities Framework and new directions in writing research, instruction and learning 社论：写作现实框架和写作研究、教学和学习的新方向

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Literacy Pub Date : 2025-01-29 DOI: 10.1111/lit.12400

Ross Young, Felicity Ferguson, Douglas Kaufman

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‘Something I've carried with me’: Visibility and vulnerability within the writing journeys of preservice secondary English teachers “我随身携带的东西”：职前中学英语教师写作旅程中的可见性和脆弱性

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Literacy Pub Date : 2025-01-14 DOI: 10.1111/lit.12396

Aisling Walters

{"title":"‘Something I've carried with me’: Visibility and vulnerability within the writing journeys of preservice secondary English teachers","authors":"Aisling Walters","doi":"10.1111/lit.12396","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/lit.12396","url":null,"abstract":"There is an assumption that English teachers identify as writers. This article explores the stories of three secondary preservice English teachers, their descriptions of their writing experiences and their self-perceived vulnerabilities around writing. These narratives originated in a broader research study into the writer identities of preservice English teachers. Situated with a qualitative paradigm, the research design aligned with a relativist ontological approach. An interpretivist epistemology led to Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). Participants completed qualitative surveys, drew ‘writing rivers’ and reflected on these in semistructured interviews. A story map represents participants' writing journeys over time. Findings suggest that participants associated writing with exposure from an early age. Assessment of writing made participants visible; they experienced negative feedback on their writing as personal criticism and disconnected from writing. Faced with teaching writing as preservice teachers, participants encountered the same pedagogical practices that they found challenging as students. Reflection on their writing histories led participants to explore the source of their writing vulnerabilities and how these were ‘carried’ with them into classroom practice. Findings illustrate how assessment-driven writing pedagogies can erode the writer identities of young people over time. The research therefore has implications for educational practice in a variety of contexts.","PeriodicalId":46082,"journal":{"name":"Literacy","volume":"59 1","pages":"8-20"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/lit.12396","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143114990","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Teachers' choices of and experiences with teaching English literature texts in lower secondary school classes in Trinidad and Tobago 特立尼达和多巴哥初中英语文学文本教学教师的选择与经验

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Literacy Pub Date : 2025-01-14 DOI: 10.1111/lit.12399

Krishna Seunarinesingh

{"title":"Teachers' choices of and experiences with teaching English literature texts in lower secondary school classes in Trinidad and Tobago","authors":"Krishna Seunarinesingh","doi":"10.1111/lit.12399","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/lit.12399","url":null,"abstract":"Existing research about English literature texts that are studied at secondary schools in developed countries suggests that teachers' choices can be determined by, for example, school policies, access to books, teachers' reasons for teaching literature, the degree of autonomy they have in choosing text and the influence that canonical literature has in their teaching contexts. Comparable knowledge about teachers' choices of English literature texts, the contexts in which literature is taught and teachers' experiences of teaching the books they choose in Trinidad and Tobago is scarce. To address this, 84 schools were surveyed, and English teachers and heads of department were interviewed. Although many of the findings echoed previous studies conducted in developed countries, several new factors emerged, which may be ascribed to the local context. Chief among these were teachers' preference for multi-genre anthologies, a high proportion of government schools choosing only one book in Year 8, the popularity of Caribbean texts and the significant impact of economic considerations on text selection. The study discusses the potentially negative consequences of some text selection criteria and questions the applicability of some contemporary research recommendations to Trinidad and Tobago.","PeriodicalId":46082,"journal":{"name":"Literacy","volume":"59 2","pages":"229-241"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143919766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Daybooks: Writers' notebooks reveal the processes, genre choices and reflections of fourth-grade writers 日记本：作家的笔记本，揭示了四年级作家的写作过程、体裁选择和思考

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Literacy Pub Date : 2025-01-10 DOI: 10.1111/lit.12398

Brian Kissel

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Using constructs of ‘good’ writing to develop ‘a voice of one's own’ in the primary school classroom 在小学课堂上使用“好”写作的构念来培养“自己的声音”

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Literacy Pub Date : 2025-01-03 DOI: 10.1111/lit.12397

Victorina González-Diaz, Elizabeth Parr, Kristi Nourie

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The essential conditions of writing workshop: Proposing a new conceptual model 写作讲习班的基本条件：提出一个新的概念模型

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Literacy Pub Date : 2024-12-26 DOI: 10.1111/lit.12394

Douglas Kaufman

{"title":"The essential conditions of writing workshop: Proposing a new conceptual model","authors":"Douglas Kaufman","doi":"10.1111/lit.12394","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/lit.12394","url":null,"abstract":"Writing workshop, as conceived by Donald Graves and other US researchers in the 1980s, positively transformed the writing instruction of many teachers. However, others experienced considerable challenges as they tried to create workshop classrooms. This article examines the three historical conditions that defined workshop: (1) choice, (2) time and (3) response, highlighting several factors that may lead to unsuccessful practices as teachers attempt to implement them. Then, based on an analysis of the early work of the original researchers and the practices of exemplary workshop educators, it identifies three other conditions—(4) organization and management to promote classroom movement, (5) community-building to create a shared culture of writers and (6) living a publicly literate life—that appear to support the successful implementation of the original three conditions. Finally, pulling from an analysis of the contemporary work of current workshop researchers and educators, it identifies one final condition that was conspicuously not represented in the early work but nonetheless appears essential in connecting and contextualizing all conditions: (7) the introduction of writing purpose to promote empowerment and equity. Together, these conditions form a new and more holistic theoretical model that may now be examined, interpreted, implemented in practice and evolved.","PeriodicalId":46082,"journal":{"name":"Literacy","volume":"59 1","pages":"70-82"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143119504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Writing worlds: Exploring mentorship approaches supporting adolescents' authentic writing across a Canadian youth centre's programmes 写作世界：在加拿大青年中心的项目中探索支持青少年真实写作的指导方法

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Literacy Pub Date : 2024-12-23 DOI: 10.1111/lit.12395

Emily Mannard

{"title":"Writing worlds: Exploring mentorship approaches supporting adolescents' authentic writing across a Canadian youth centre's programmes","authors":"Emily Mannard","doi":"10.1111/lit.12395","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/lit.12395","url":null,"abstract":"In its diverse forms, authentic writing carries the potential to connect literacy practice to an author's ‘real world’. While contemporary approaches to authentic writing instruction—advocating writer-centred, intertextual and culturally relevant productions—are most often explored in formal learning contexts like classrooms, this paper seeks to amplify the mentorship strategies employed within an informal youth centre learning space in Montreal, Canada. The following research questions have guided this work: (1) How do adult mentors leverage authentic writing principles to support adolescents' participation within two writing-based programmes developed in a youth centre context? (2) How do the interests, perspectives and backgrounds of adult mentors shape the mentorship strategies they choose to employ? Data collected and analysed through participant-focused ethnographic approaches assist the author in revealing how adult writing mentors draw from their own cultural, linguistic and embodied experiences to foster interest-driven, culturally sustaining and community-based writing opportunities for adolescents. The four key mentorship themes emerging through this research—centring the essential role of writing journeys, identities and communities while acknowledging several barriers to authentic writing—advocate drawing from the rich literacy practices thriving within informal contexts to inform contemporary writing curricula.","PeriodicalId":46082,"journal":{"name":"Literacy","volume":"59 1","pages":"55-69"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/lit.12395","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143118267","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The relationship of home language and literacy practices to biliteracy development among immigrant bilingual children: A review of studies from 2014 to 2023 2014 - 2023年移民双语儿童家庭语言与读写能力发展的关系

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Literacy Pub Date : 2024-12-18 DOI: 10.1111/lit.12393

L. Quentin Dixon, Haemin Kim, Amirpooya Dayani, Weiqi Guo, Li-Jen Kuo, Zohreh Eslami, Zhuo Chen

{"title":"The relationship of home language and literacy practices to biliteracy development among immigrant bilingual children: A review of studies from 2014 to 2023","authors":"L. Quentin Dixon, Haemin Kim, Amirpooya Dayani, Weiqi Guo, Li-Jen Kuo, Zohreh Eslami, Zhuo Chen","doi":"10.1111/lit.12393","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/lit.12393","url":null,"abstract":"Immigrant families bring myriad strengths through their home literacy practices, which contribute to their children's biliteracy growth. This systematic review critically analysed 28 recent studies on the relationship between home literacy practices and biliteracy development of immigrant bilingual children. Against a backdrop of host societies that emphasize immigrant children's second language (L2) and devalue their first language (L1), many studies indicated that home literacy practices in either L1 or L2 were associated with stronger literacy development in the same language for immigrant children of varying ages and language backgrounds at the same time point; further, cross-linguistic relationships seemed to be neutral or negative, mostly measured at one point in time. However, these findings should not be taken as recommendations, as very few studies examined these relationships longitudinally or accounted for change in home practices. Additionally, other factors, such as school programmes, socioeconomic status (SES) and length of residence in the host country, may affect these relationships. Importantly, L1 generally required more support in order to develop in these contexts, but a few longitudinal studies suggest that L1 development need not come at the expense of L2 achievement. Additional experimental and longitudinal studies that value immigrant families' L1s are needed to elucidate these relationships.","PeriodicalId":46082,"journal":{"name":"Literacy","volume":"59 2","pages":"151-164"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143919867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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