Literacy inside and out: investigating the literacy practices of adult English literacy learners
Adult English literacy learners (ELLs) are learners with limited or no formal schooling in their first language who are learning to read and write in English. At present, the limited research surrounding adult ELL instruction does not fully investigate the literacies that learners make use of outside of the classroom in a Canadian context. Through the lens of the New Literacy Studies, this case study examines the variety of print-literacy practices that adult ELLs engage with inside and outside of the classroom, highlights the value of these literacy practices, and emphasizes the importance of... Show more
Authors: Piersma, Carolyn Alicia Wilma
Published: Toronto, Ontario, University of Toronto, 2013
Resource type: Thesis
Physical description: ix, 99 p.
Access item: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/42641
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