Adolescent literacy has captured the attention of policy makers in the United States as evidence has emerged of students’ poor performance compared to many other nations (UNESCO Institute for Statistics, 2003, 2007). As one response, school districts across the United States have been cutting social studies classes and extending Language Arts classes in an effort to raise literacy scores. This ...

Academic literacy, the ability to cope with discourse demands of higher education, is believed be a factor in poor graduation rates among South African students. As result, interventions deal low levels this have been part broader effort by universities boost student completion rates. In Africa, two approaches these and theories informing them seen light day date. main, their either generic or ...

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The authors propose a convergent model for information literacy (IL) based on complementary proficiencies in research and web literacy. Within this integrated framework, information technology (IT) is an essential dynamic in IL instruction. This model was designed, implemented and tested in an upper-level discipline-specific undergraduate information science (IS) course that requires students t...

This study attempted to address academics’ general concern about the steady decline in students’ academic writing abilities and impact this has on ability demonstrate their learning negotiate written tasks respective disciplines. The focused what can be done within a higher education institution terms of instruction develop literacy required enable students cope with demands tertiary studies sp...

The current UK debate on Computing in schools is driven by a specific issue: what should form the basis of a modern Computing education. It’s a perfect storm that has been brewing for some time, but the recent comments1 of Eric Schmidt, the chairman of Google, have moved it into the political arena. Currently, the mandatory educational component of Computing (from years 11 to 16) is taught as I...

The aim of this paper is to differentiate the notions “media literacy” and education” as main terms a contemporary dominated field research which study mass media its influence on society. article reveals different approaches scholars literacy education specific autonomous knowledge in pedagogical theory practice. It also reflects various definitions these way they developed through rapid evolu...

This study aims to examine the strategies utilized by eleven postgraduate students in an EFL university context in their attempts to acquire the textual practices of their discipline. First- and second-year MA students, one Ph.D. student as well as individuals who had completed their MA programs in TEFL took part in interviews in order to elicit the strategies they used when they endeavored to ...