Catering for cultural and linguistic diversity: using teacher created information texts
Citation
Export citationCarss, W. D., Tamata, A., & Exley, B. (2015). Catering for cultural and linguistic diversity: using teacher created information texts. Literacy Learning: The Middle Years, 23(2), 29–39.
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Abstract
Teachers in the Pacific region have often signalled the need for more locally produced information texts in both the vernacular and English, to engage their readers with local content and to support literacy development across the curriculum. The Information Text Awareness Project (ITAP), initially informed by the work of Nea Stewart-Dore, has provided a means to address this need through supporting local teachers to write their own information texts. This article reports on the impact of an ITAP workshop carried out in Nadi, Fiji, in 2012. Nine teacher volunteers from the project trialled the use of the texts in their classrooms with positive results in relation to student learning and belief in themselves as writers.
Date
2015Type
Publisher
Australian Literacy Educators' Association Ltd
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This article is published in the Literacy Learning: The Middle Years
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