Designing linguistically flexible scaffolding for subject-specific academic literacy interventions

Integrating Academic Literacy Skills in an Elective Intermediate Accounting Subject

This paper describes a project that sought to integrate academic literacy skills into an elective intermediate accounting subject. It offers a strategy whereby students are set academic reading and writing tasks through a series of graded published articles, written by faculty members, which were accompanied by questions and other activities to help them understand the text and analyse the acco...

Designing clinical interventions for children with specific memory disorders.

Despite increasing research into the severe effects of childhood memory disorders, there is currently a paucity of evidence available to inform the design of appropriate rehabilitation strategies. Indeed, within the paediatric literature there is no model that links specific memory disorders with hypotheses for appropriate rehabilitation strategies. This paper introduces a series of interventio...

Scaffolding emergent literacy 3 Running head: SCAFFOLDING EMERGENT LITERACY SKILLS The scaffolding of emergent literacy skills in the home environment: A case study

The ways in which parent-child interactions can encourage the development of emergent literacy skills in young children remains to be fully explored. The present report describes how one parent scaffolded her young child’s emergent writing and letter knowledge in the home. Environmental print provided many rich and meaningful examples for the parent to show that print conveys meaning and is con...

Health Literacy Interventions

Designing a Curriculum in Media Literacy for the Elementary School

To help the Ministry of Education with the redesigning of the textbooks, it was deemed that the inclusion of social media could prove beneficial, given that the way students use these media is improved. To find out how this could be implemented, a group of experts in three areas of culture, communication, and education was carefully selected and then interviewed. Data analysis lead to a model c...