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":"53 1","pages":"196 - 218"},"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":"53 1","pages":"29 - 52"},"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":"53 1","pages":"75 - 99"},"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":"53 1","pages":"122 - 144"},"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":"53 1","pages":"53 - 74"},"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}
J. Worthy, Anne Daly-Lesch, Susan Tily, V. Godfrey, Cori Salmerón
{"title":"A Critical Evaluation of Dyslexia Information on the Internet","authors":"J. Worthy, Anne Daly-Lesch, Susan Tily, V. Godfrey, Cori Salmerón","doi":"10.1177/1086296X20986921","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1086296X20986921","url":null,"abstract":"The internet is a common source of information for parents, educators, and the general public. However, researchers who analyze the quality of internet sources have found they often contain inaccurate and misleading information. Here, we present an analysis of dyslexia on the internet. Employing disability studies in education (DSE), disability critical race studies (DisCrit), and Bakhtin’s construct of ideological becoming, we examined the credibility of sources, the quality of information, and the discourse in which the information is presented. We found the majority of webpages do not meet basic source credibility criteria, much of the content contradicts or is unsupported by research, and most pages convey information in an authoritative discourse, making it seem irreproachable. Building on the findings, we offer criteria for evaluating dyslexia information and suggestions for research and practice. We focus on the need for less divisive, more collaborative dialogue, along with research among stakeholders with multiple perspectives.","PeriodicalId":47294,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literacy Research","volume":"53 1","pages":"5 - 28"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1086296X20986921","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65943150","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":"Editorial Introduction","authors":"Eurydice Bauer, Catherine Compton-Lilly, Guofang Li, Aria Razfar","doi":"10.1177/1086296x20986949","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1086296x20986949","url":null,"abstract":"This volume of the <i>Journal of Literacy Research</i> draws on a range of contexts, voices, and positionings to consider what counts as evidence and the making of viable arguments. We are living in a time when public health and science related to climate change are routinely challenged and ignored. False claims are also prevalent in literacy education, where policy and practice decisions are often affected by politics and privilege, rather than by research findings. Each article presented in this volume raises important perspectives on what it means for students, practitioners, and scholars to make and support claims about educational practice and the world.","PeriodicalId":47294,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literacy Research","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2021-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138528043","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":"Excavating Embodied Literacies Through a Chicana/Latina Feminist Framework","authors":"Mónica González Ybarra, Cinthya M. Saavedra","doi":"10.1177/1086296X20986594","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1086296X20986594","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, the authors take a reflective, self-study journey that digs into their own embodied literacies as Chicana feminist literacy researchers. Chicana/Latina feminisms offer an/other angle for exploring embodied literacies and are one way to center bodies and knowledge from the margins. The authors emphasize Anzaldúa’s concept of geographies of selves as an entry point for theorizing the embodied literacies of Chicanas/Latinas. To support this excavation process, the authors demonstrate how autohistoria-teoría, as a methodological approach to literacies, can be used to locate, narrate, and document the embodied literacies of Chicanas/Latinas. The findings demonstrate how places and people shape knowledge and ways of reading the world and thus impact the literacies imprinted on bodies.","PeriodicalId":47294,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literacy Research","volume":"53 1","pages":"100 - 121"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1086296X20986594","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49433288","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":"Black Lives Matter: Storying, Identities, and Counternarratives","authors":"Valerie Kinloch, C. Penn, Tanja Burkhard","doi":"10.1177/1086296x20966372","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1086296x20966372","url":null,"abstract":"In this academic counternarrative, we examine how Black students and adults get positioned by, and come to resist, discourses that favor dominant linguistic and cultural practices. We ask, How do Black youth and adults resist the gaze of whiteness, or dominant discourses, in schools and communities, and what are pedagogical implications of such resistances? We address these questions by discussing three contemporary examples of injustices experienced by Rachel Jeantel, Amariyanna Copeny, and Black youth who continue the activism of Colin Kaepernik. Thereafter, we analyze data from three research vignettes of Black teachers and Youth of Color who produce counternarratives through storying. In our conclusion, we advocate for a pedagogical agenda in literacy studies grounded in cultural equality and linguistic, racial, and social justice for Black people and other People of Color. We situate this work as an academic counternarrative—an analysis of young people’s unapologetic affirmation of Black humanity, brilliance, and power.","PeriodicalId":47294,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Literacy Research","volume":"52 1","pages":"382 - 405"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2020-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1086296x20966372","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44683044","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}