Literacy

Göç ve çokdillilik bağlamında okullarda okuryazarlık edinimi

by Muge Ayan Ceyhan

Co-authored with Dilara Koçbaş

A Student-Run Peer-Reviewed Journal- An Educational Tool for Health Sciences students

by Raywat Deonandan

Students at the University of Ottawa, a plurality of whom were targeting a career in Medicine, were surveyed to... more Students at the University of Ottawa, a plurality of whom were targeting a career in Medicine, were surveyed to determine their attitudes and expectations regarding a new student-run peer-reviewed journal for the health sciences. A plurality reported that the existence of the journal would make them more likely to take a class with a written component, while a majority would work harder on that assignment. Those intending to pursue post-graduate or professional studies were most likely to recognize the value to their careers of having a publication history. We argue that student-run medical communications endeavours such as this are beneficial both for enhancing student careers and for contributing to a more thorough educational experience.

Les instruments de l'écriture: L'écriture dans la société gallo-romaine. Eléments d'une réflexion collective

by Michel Feugère

L’instrumentum, support d’écrit. In : Dossier "L'écriture dans la société gallo-romaine", Gallia 61, 2004, 53-65.

From the oldest times, writing was achieved by drawing signs on a soft material. The invention of wax tablets dates... more From the oldest times, writing was achieved by drawing signs on a soft material. The invention of wax tablets dates back to the Bronze Age, as the Ulu Burun shipwreck shows. In Roman times, this old method was still in used, but preferably for short records (lists, letters...) and often as a first draft before an inked document, written on papyrus or parchment. This article describes all the utensils used within these two methods, giving a short view on their various forms during Antiquity. Writing on wax tablets made us of styli, but also of wax spatulae (recently identified), to erase large portions of text and soften the wax surface. Ink writing needed not only calami, but also special knives to sharpen them, and of course ink-wells of various types. Other instruments, such as rules, are also examined here.

Introduction: L'écriture dans la société gallo-romaine. Eléments d'une réflexion collective

by Michel Feugère

L'instrumentum, support d'écrit

by Michel Feugère

M. Feugère, L’instrumentum, support d’écrit. In : Dossier "L'écriture dans la société gallo-romaine", Gallia 61, 2004, 53-65.

Écrire en Gaule romaine

by Michel Feugère

M. Feugère, Écrire en Gaule romaine. L'Archéologue - Archéol. nouv. n°15, oct. 1995, 11-18.

Writing is a major step in the transition of Human being from Prehistory to History. Appearing in Gaul during the... more Writing is a major step in the transition of Human being from Prehistory to History. Appearing in Gaul during the phase called proto-history (when foreign authors begin to write about non-writing local populations), writing and, more generally speaking, literacy, begins to spread within the Roman period. Its success is probably supported by the growing up of schools, helping even the lowest social classes of people to reach a first level of education. The rise of literacy is well illustrated in Gaul by a number of archaeological finds, from single names scratched on daily use vessels by their owners, to complex lists registrating the goods deposited in potters' kilns by independent craftsmen.

Review of Decolonizing Literacy: Mexican Lives in the Era of Global Capitalism

by Shui-yin Sharon Yam

Published in The Journal of College Literacy and Learning

Literacy, culture and history in the work of Thienemann and Hajnal

by Andras Kisery

in: Comparative Hungarian Cultural Studies. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek and Louise O. Vasvári. West Lafayette: Purdue UP, 2011, pp. 34-46.

LANGUAGE IN SUVA - Language use and Literacy in an Urban Pacific Community

by Thorold (Thor) May

This paper is a preliminary report on a sociolinguistic field survey. It records the beliefs which 834 permanent... more This paper is a preliminary report on a sociolinguistic field survey. It records the beliefs which 834 permanent residents of Suva, Fiji had about their own language and literacy skills in 1988-89. The interview subjects were selected from five census enumeration districts with populations ranging from 430 to 1200, and chosen for having a roughly equal ethnic composition of Fijians and Indo-Fijians. Bilingual interviewers (linguistics students) invited and assisted subjects to complete an extensive questionnaire, and offer unstructured comments. The collated and analysed outcome gives a complex and sometimes surprising picture of urban language change.

Young People’s Translocal New Media Uses:A Multiperspective Analysis Of Language Choice And Heteroglossia

by Sirpa Leppänen

Published in JOurnal of Computer-Mediated Communication 14, 2009

Co-authored with:
Anne Pitkanen-Huhta
Arja Piirainen-Marsh
Tarja Nikula
Saija Peuronen

The aim of this paper is to shed light on the particularities of the linguistic, social and
cultural action of... more The aim of this paper is to shed light on the particularities of the linguistic, social and
cultural action of young Finns in translocal new media spaces, and the ways in which
they themselves make sense of and account for their actions. We present findings from 4
case studies, each of which illustrates aspects of translocality in young Finns’ new media
uses. Theoretically and methodologically the case studies draw on sociolinguistics, discourse
studies, and ethnography, making use of the concepts of language choice and linguistic
and stylistic heteroglossia. Through the 4 cases in focus, the paper shows how young
people’s linguistically and textually sophisticated new media uses are geared by and express
translocal affective, social, and cultural alignments and affinities.

doi:10.1111/j.1083-6101.2009.01482.x
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Literacy, Cognitive Function, and Health: Results of the LitCog Study

by Samuel Smith

Wolf MS, Curtis LM, Wilson EA, Revelle W, Waite KR, Smith SG, Weintraub S, Borosh B, Rapp DN, Park DC, Deary IC, Baker DW

Background:
Emerging evidence suggests the relationship between health literacy and health outcomes could be... more Background:
Emerging evidence suggests the relationship between health literacy and health outcomes could be explained by cognitive abilities.

Objective:
To investigate to what degree cognitive skills explain associations between health literacy, performance on common health tasks, and functional health status.

Design:
Two face-to-face, structured interviews spaced a week apart with three health literacy assessments and a comprehensive cognitive battery measuring 'fluid' abilities necessary to learn and apply new information, and 'crystallized' abilities such as background knowledge.

Setting:
An academic general internal medicine practice and three federally qualified health centers in Chicago, Illinois.

Patients:
Eight hundred and eighty-two English-speaking adults ages 55 to 74.

Measurements:
Health literacy was measured using the Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine (REALM), Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults (TOFHLA), and Newest Vital Sign (NVS). Performance on common health tasks were globally assessed and categorized as 1) comprehending print information, 2) recalling spoken information, 3) recalling multimedia information, 4) dosing and organizing medication, and 5) healthcare problem-solving.

Results:
Health literacy measures were strongly correlated with fluid and crystallized cognitive abilities (range: r = 0.57 to 0.77, all p < 0.001). Lower health literacy and weaker fluid and crystallized abilities were associated with poorer performance on healthcare tasks. In multivariable analyses, the association between health literacy and task performance was substantially reduced once fluid and crystallized cognitive abilities were entered into models (without cognitive abilities: β = -28.9, 95 % Confidence Interval (CI) -31.4 to -26.4, p; with cognitive abilities: β = -8.5, 95 % CI -10.9 to -6.0).

Limitations:
Cross-sectional analyses, English-speaking, older adults only.

Conclusions:
The most common measures used in health literacy studies are detecting individual differences in cognitive abilities, which may predict one's capacity to engage in self-care and achieve desirable health outcomes. Future interventions should respond to all of the cognitive demands patients face in managing health, beyond reading and numeracy.

Language Background and Literacy among Hispanic Young Adults

by Vilma Ortiz

Book Review of Literacy and Power by Janks, Hilary. (2010).

by Geneviève Brisson

Published in Education review /Reseñas educativas, 2011

...if we were cavemen we'd be fine

by Owen Barden

This is a draft. The final, definitive version is forthcoming via Blackwell Synergy and the UKLA in Literacy: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/%28ISSN%291741-4369

This article is derived from a study of the use of Facebook as an educational resource by five dyslexic students at a... more This article is derived from a study of the use of Facebook as an educational resource by five dyslexic students at a Sixth Form College in north-west England. Through a project in which teacher-researcher and student-participants co-constructed a group Facebook page about the students’ scaffolded research into dyslexia, the study examined the educational affordances of a digitally-mediated social network. An innovative, flexible, experiential methodology combining action research and case study with an ethnographic approach was devised. This enabled the use of multiple mixed methods, capturing much of the rich complexity of the students’ online and offline interactions with each other and with digital media as they contributed to the group and co-constructed their group Facebook page. Social perspectives on dyslexia (Cooper, 2006; Herrington & Hunter-Carsch, 2001) and multiliteracies (Cope & Kalantzis, 2000; Gee, 1996; Street 1984 & 2003) were used to help interpret the students’ engagement with the social network and thereby deduce its educational potential. The research concludes that as a digitally mediated social network, Facebook engages the students in active, critical learning about and through literacies in a rich and complex semiotic domain (Gee, 2004, 2005 & 2007). Offline dialogue plays a crucial role. This learning is reciprocally shaped by the students' developing identities as both dyslexic students and able learners. The findings suggest that social media can have advantageous applications for literacy learning in the classroom. In prompting learning yet remaining unchanged by it, Facebook can be likened to a catalyst.

Social and symbolic aspects of Minoan writing

by Helène Whittaker

Colonizing Consequences of "Literacy" in the Early Modern/Colonial World System

by Michael Baker

This essay develops an historical sociological explanation of the conceptions and uses of language and literacy in the... more This essay develops an historical sociological explanation of the conceptions and uses of language and literacy in the early modern colonial domination and exploitation of diverse cultures on both the European and American continents. The early modern colonial legacies of literacy reveal the power/knowledge relations underlying modern Western educational ideologies and practices of alphabetic writing. The dominant Western model of literacy as an autonomous, neutral set of skills associated with reason, progress, and civilization emerged during the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries within the formation of the modern/colonial world system. This imperial/colonial model of literacy emerged within the European misinterpretations of indigenous peoples and the centralization of power within newly forming European territorial states. Early modern European conceptions and uses of alphabetic literacy were central to both the consolidation of European state power and the legitimation of European conquest and colonization in the Americas.

The Claim of John 7.15 and the Memory of Jesus' Literacy

by Chris Keith

In My Own Hand: Grapho-Literacy and the Apostle Paul

by Chris Keith

Neuman 2008. Moderne Hebrew Pointing: The Case for Reform (LLA 57)

by Yishai Neuman

Neuman, Yishai (2008). לא על הקמץ לבדו: לפולמוס המתחדש בין מסורות טבריה וארץ ישראל "Modern Hebrew Pointing: The Case for Reform", לשוננו לעם Leshonenu La’am 57/2, pp. 77-143

http://aleph.nli.org.il:80/F/?func=direct&doc_number=000509067&local_base=RMB01

http://hebrew-academy.huji.ac.il/sheelot_teshuvot/SugyotBeIvrit/Pages/17101001.aspx

The Massey Writing Across the Curriculum Model: A manifesto for the renaissance of an international business school?

by Peter Mellalieu

Mellalieu, P. J. (2007, July 6). The Massey Writing Across the Curriculum Model: A manifesto for the renaissance of an international business school? Peter Mellalieu - Teacher. Retrieved October 11, 2009, from http://preview.tinyurl.com/masseywac

How could the Massey Writing Across the Curriculum model be adapted to the context of a renewing international... more How could the Massey Writing Across the Curriculum model be adapted to the context of a renewing international business school? The Massey model was developed in the context of a research-focussed university science faculty (Emerson, 2004). The Unitec Business School is undergoing pre-revolutionary changes in response to policy changes at the institutional and national educational levels. The business school possesses a cohort of staff with strong capabilities in communications. Furthermore, members of the school hold strong commitments towards developing pedagogies that support learning that is relevant to the real world contexts into which students will graduate. Accordingly, it is possible to devise a manifesto for implementing curriculum development in the Unitec Business School by drawing from the lessons of the Massey Writing Across the Curriculum experience.