Browsing by Subject "Literacy"
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1990)It was the purpose of this study to examine the effects of a developmental reading program for black college students attending a traditional black college. Specifically, this study investigated whether the students who ...
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(2013-07-22)The relationship between authors and readers has been heavily studied in western literatures since the shift between the spoken-subject lost its privileged position to the written author. The struggle for who determines ...
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(2014-06-02)Differences in children’s skills at the beginning of formal schooling have been reported, with Hispanic children, often performing below their Caucasian counterparts. The home literacy environment (HLE) has been reported ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2008-10-10)Literacy theory, a multi-disciplinary, late-twentieth century endeavor, examines the acts of reading and writing as cognitive and social processes, seeking to define the relationship between reading and writing and other ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1987)This study of workplace literacy practices of 81 employees in the mineral extraction/energy and tourist-related industries in a southwestern Wyoming county utilized the Diehl-Mikulecky Job Literacy Survey. The purpose of ...
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(2017-05-03)This thesis uses former literature on orality, literacy, pluralism, and power structures and applies their theoretical framework in order to provide insight into the rhetorical impacts of social media. Specifically, Facebook ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1991)In order to develop sound models or theories of literacy, or written language learning and use, there must be adequate descriptions of how written language is learned and used. Such descriptions call for an approach that ...