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Author: Marília Salgado Vilas Boas Safar |
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Date Posted: 11:05:20 08/12/10 Thu Hi I am here again. I wrote something related with the last question. You could take a look and say if Iam in the right way..... 3- Comments about a topic covered frequently in the articles published over the past twelve months. A topic covered frequently in the articles published over the past twelve months reveals the worries about education. They are always researching methods to develop student’s abilities. They focus in troubles with students in native language in a regular school and also, second language acquisition. Over the last years, in many countries worldwide, there has been a decline in the reading skills of upper secondary school students, and their ability to read and understand advanced literature. Seeing this as an alarming change for the worse, governments, educational bodies and interested groups have taken various measures to address the issue. Five schools in five European countries—Italy, Lithuania, Sweden, Finland and Cyprus—have decided to do something about the students’ inability and unwillingness to read literature. Their 2007-2009 Comenius ALCUIN project (Active Literacy: Competence and Understanding, Internally Naturalised–From Decoding to Understanding) aimed to develop reading methods which would motivate students to develop their reading skills, make them competent readers and users of their mother tongue as well as English as a second language. It also aimed to help them address more demanding texts, and also enable them to analyse and critically evaluate literary texts of various genres as well as European perspectives, and degrees of sophistication. This evaluative article aims to establish whether the first four new pedagogical methods used in the first year of the project in the five high schools have managed to motivate students in reading literature. http://www.readingmatrix.com/articles/sept_2009/papadima_sophocleous.pdf Other researchers are concerned with who intends to learn one second language. Gee‟s (2000-2001) analytical framework was used to describe the constructed identities of two young Korean ELLs (English language learners) within the school context and were considered to gain insight into their academic success. The author argues that the “model minority” stereotype was influential in shaping the imposed identities created by the school community despite some contradictory evidence of the ELLs‟ developing academic performances. Findings suggested that (a) teachers viewed the participant students as model students with exceptional academic capabilities, (b) participant students were often struggling to decipher implicit classroom rules and their language learning, and (c) peer group acceptance became a crucial factor in their access to academic learning and maintenance of social standing within the group. The paper concludes with critiques of current realities of US education and instructional approaches that fail to meet the needs of ELLs, both in the academic and affective domain. The model minority stereotype has served to isolate Asians in the US from other minority groups, and has increased tensions among minority groups. Moreover, coupled with consistent identification as a “foreigner/other,” this stereotype has effectively isolated Asian Americans from the White-Black binary that positions them in relative terms to Anglo Americans and African Americans (Kim, 1999). Hence, researchers have argued that the model minority stereotype should be critically examined instead of being internalized and accepted by Asian-American students and accepted by others (S. Lee, 1996; Park, 1997). According to Gee, identity construction is a dynamic process that is only possible when recognition occurs (see also Taylor, 1994). A person is seen as a particular kind of individual through a “combination” of speaking, interacting, valuing, believing, and using artifacts (among others). http://www.readingmatrix.com/articles/april_2010/ro.pdf [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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