M. Pacheco, Blaine E. Smith, Amber Deig, Natalie A. Amgott
{"title":"Scaffolding Multimodal Composition With Emergent Bilingual Students","authors":"M. Pacheco, Blaine E. Smith, Amber Deig, Natalie A. Amgott","doi":"10.1177/1086296X211010888","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1086296X211010888","url":null,"abstract":"Digital multimodal composition offers opportunities for emergent bilingual (EB) students to orchestrate semiotic resources in ways that develop their identities, strengthen their understandings of language, and help them to engage with content. To better understand how EBs can participate in varied multimodal composing practices, this study systematically reviews the literature on EBs’ digital multimodal composing in secondary classrooms. More specifically, it examines types of scaffolds, or planned and responsive instructional supports, used by teachers and students, as well as functions for learning associated with these scaffolds. Through an inductive approach, the authors analyzed 74 studies situated in classrooms. Findings showed seven types of scaffolding: collaboration, direct instruction, exemplar texts, translanguaging, discussion, encouragement, and questioning. In addition, eight scaffolding functions emerged that illustrate three major themes of scaffolding identities, scaffolding resources, and scaffolding contexts. The authors then discuss implications for classroom practice, implications for translanguaging and social semiotics theories, and directions for future research.","PeriodicalId":47294,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literacy Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2021-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1086296X211010888","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45122104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hiller A. Spires, Marie Himes, C. Lee, Andrea Gambino
{"title":"“We Are the Future”: Critical Inquiry and Social Action in the Classroom","authors":"Hiller A. Spires, Marie Himes, C. Lee, Andrea Gambino","doi":"10.1177/1086296X211009283","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1086296X211009283","url":null,"abstract":"This study explored how engaging in critical inquiry through Project-Based Inquiry (PBI) Global fostered social action with high school students. Drawing on theoretical perspectives from critical inquiry and social action and employing a collective case study approach, we focused on six diverse students from two of the 18 teams who participated in a PBI Global examining global water and sanitation over a two-month period. Data sources included semi-structured student interviews, students’ posts and uploads in a shared writing space, and students’ multimodal products of learning. Three themes emerged from the analysis across the data sources: synergistic collaboration, critical analysis and creation of multimodal texts, and understanding global and local interdependence to take social action. The discussion illuminates how students’ engagement in critical inquiry and social action ignite the emergence of Freire’s notion of critical consciousness.","PeriodicalId":47294,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literacy Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2021-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1086296X211009283","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43700853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Larson, Eleni Duret, J. Rees, Jessica L. Anderson
{"title":"Challenging the Autonomous Wall: Literacy Work in an Urban High School","authors":"J. Larson, Eleni Duret, J. Rees, Jessica L. Anderson","doi":"10.1177/1086296X211009279","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1086296X211009279","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores how one urban high school under threat of state closure developed a multifaceted literacy program to transform the teaching and learning of literacy in a novel university/school partnership. Analyses of ethnographic and quantitative school data illustrate how the evolution of the literacy program could be understood as a consequence of generative frictions which produced changes in the program and some indication of changes in understanding of literacy and of students’ needs. We weave a story of multiple layers of changed curriculum, scheduling, assessments, and pedagogy to argue that we need to rethink the continuum of autonomous and ideological literacy to focus more on what the intersections of literacy ideologies generate.","PeriodicalId":47294,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literacy Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2021-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1086296X211009279","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45910770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cuentos Combativos: Decolonialities in Puerto Rican Books About María","authors":"Francisco L. Torres, C. Medina","doi":"10.1177/1086296X211009294","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1086296X211009294","url":null,"abstract":"Guided by theories of racialization and through a decolonial analysis, we share findings on the examination of four children’s books written in Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane María. In engaging with these books, we situate our work in communal and research activist practices that foreground Puerto Ricans’ hidden stories and knowledges. Our initial analysis focuses on mapping the complex and contradictory constructions of diverse sociopolitical perspectives within a Puerto Rican imaginary around Hurricane María, communal and historical agency, and emerging resistance as decolonial literary acts. We then provide a more in-depth analysis of two texts, exploring the themes of estamos bien, delinking, one story/one people, and acción social. Findings highlight the need to engage with ruptures created by texts within decolonial imaginative spaces to improve literacy instruction.","PeriodicalId":47294,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literacy Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2021-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1086296X211009294","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43874967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Narrating Global Literacies: Crossing Borders of Exclusion During a Time of Crisis","authors":"Lenny Sánchez, Tami Ensor","doi":"10.1177/1086296X211009288","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1086296X211009288","url":null,"abstract":"Although research endeavors on global-centric teaching and learning are increasing, there is much yet to understand on how classroom spaces can legitimize students’ capacities as globally literate members of society. In this article, we focus on the relational dimension of global literacies and examine how elementary students involved in a transnational partnership constructed relationality into online story exchanges with each other. We focus on four practices—communicating across language differences, sharing everyday worlds, pursuing connections, and embracing vulnerability.","PeriodicalId":47294,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literacy Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2021-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1086296X211009288","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41299071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Carita Kiili, Blaine E. Smith, Eija Räikkönen, Miika Marttunen
{"title":"Students’ Interpretations of a Persuasive Multimodal Video About Vaccines","authors":"Carita Kiili, Blaine E. Smith, Eija Räikkönen, Miika Marttunen","doi":"10.1177/1086296X211009296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1086296X211009296","url":null,"abstract":"The present study investigated students’ (N = 404) interpretations of the main message and use of modes in a persuasive multimodal video on vaccines. It also examined whether students’ topic knowledge, language arts grades, and self-identified gender were associated with their interpretations. Students analyzed a YouTube video in which two entertainers demonstrated the importance of vaccinating children. Students’ interpretations of the usefulness of vaccines varied in terms of quality of reasoning, which was associated with students’ topic knowledge. Notably, many students’ interpretations of the use of modes were incomplete, or they did not even mention certain modes in their response. The results suggest that students should be explicitly taught how to interpret different modes and their uses for argumentative purposes.","PeriodicalId":47294,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literacy Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2021-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1086296X211009296","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48330970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How Feedback From an Online Video Game Teaches Argument Writing for Environmental Action","authors":"Ann M. Lawrence, Michael B. Sherry","doi":"10.1177/1086296X20986598","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1086296X20986598","url":null,"abstract":"Literacy researchers have explored how video games might be used as supplementary texts in secondary English language arts (ELA) classrooms to support reading instruction. However, less attention has been focused on how video games, particularly online educational games designed to teach argumentation, might enhance secondary ELA students’ writing development. In this article, we describe how the pedagogical feedback provided by one such game, Quandary, influenced two seventh graders’ written arguments in advocacy letters addressed to the state governor regarding a local environmental disaster. We compare these two embedded cases to data from 10 focal students, as well as patterns from 114 seventh graders (in five ELA classes). Based on our analysis of screen-capture video of students’ gameplay, drafts of their advocacy letters, and video-stimulated recall interviews, we conclude that game feedback rewarding or penalizing predetermined right or wrong player moves may encourage students to develop argumentation strategies that are less effective in more complex rhetorical situations and may foster a false sense of competence.","PeriodicalId":47294,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literacy Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1086296X20986598","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49505630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Kelly, W. Wakefield, Jaclyn Caires-Hurley, L. W. Kganetso, Lindsey Moses, Evelyn C. Baca
{"title":"What Is Culturally Informed Literacy Instruction? A Review of Research in P–5 Contexts","authors":"L. Kelly, W. Wakefield, Jaclyn Caires-Hurley, L. W. Kganetso, Lindsey Moses, Evelyn C. Baca","doi":"10.1177/1086296X20986602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1086296X20986602","url":null,"abstract":"This critical, integrative qualitative review explores how researchers approach, describe, and justify culturally relevant, culturally responsive, or culturally sustaining literacy instruction in prekindergarten through fifth-grade (P–5) classrooms. We reviewed 56 studies published between 1995 and 2018. We documented terms researchers use, theorists cited, methods, student outcomes, and student populations. We also analyzed how researchers talked about achievement gaps, addressed their own positionality, and determined that specific literacy instructional practices were culturally informed. We found that researchers most commonly claim to document culturally relevant or responsive instruction, in some cases conflating the terms and related theorists. Most studies were qualitative, occurred with traditionally marginalized students (usually Black or Latinx) in the United States, and involved students reading a text that researchers deem culturally informed. We make recommendations for teachers and researchers to move the field of culturally informed literacy forward.","PeriodicalId":47294,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literacy Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1086296X20986602","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42265113","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Disciplinary Literacy in STEM: A Functional Approach","authors":"Patricia Paugh, Kristen B. Wendell","doi":"10.1177/1086296X20986905","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1086296X20986905","url":null,"abstract":"This study explores disciplinary literacy instruction integrated within an elementary engineering unit in an urban classroom. A multidisciplinary team of university literacy and engineering educators and classroom teachers served as the research team for this case study. A social semiotic language theory (systemic functional linguistics) and a framework of mechanistic reasoning informed the instruction and analysis of classroom discourse and student writing. The study illustrates how a flexible set of disciplinary language choices functioned to support students’ evolving reasoning as part of the engineering design process. These findings provide insights into synergy between language and reasoning as a habit of design. These findings also inform calls to align science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) literacy and core disciplinary practices within both Common Core State Standards for (English language arts) ELA and Next Generation Science Standards.","PeriodicalId":47294,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literacy Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1086296X20986905","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46946090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Accountability in Adult Basic Education: The Marginalization of Adults with Difficulty Reading","authors":"Amy Pickard","doi":"10.1177/1086296X20986910","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1086296X20986910","url":null,"abstract":"Federal accountability policies requiring rapid, measurable outcomes have increasingly shaped the nature and type of public literacy services available to adults. However, little empirical research has explored the impact of accountability policies on program practice in adult basic education, and almost no research has focused on the effect on services for adults who have difficulty reading. This ethnographically grounded research article explores one publicly funded adult basic education program’s efforts to comply with federal accountability policy and the impact these efforts had on services for adults with difficulty reading. Findings suggest that efforts to comply with accountability policies resulted in instructional practices that limited students’ opportunities for substantive engagement with reading and in program policies that excluded students who did not produce outcomes from participation. The findings also suggest that in the context of accountability pressures, student marginalization became normalized as an ordinary part of practice.","PeriodicalId":47294,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literacy Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1086296X20986910","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49199306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}