Seminar in Language, Literacy, and Pedagogy
Spring 2014

Adult Literacy Learning Annotated Bibliography 

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In order to become more familiar with the current research on adult literacy learning, I read through the last five years of several journals, including Teaching English in the Two-Year College and Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy. I learned that most current research on adult literacy and writing instruction focuses primarily on understanding how adult students may transfer strategies from their personal and workplace writing to their academic writing, and how that transfer may help or hinder that student within the classroom. I hope to take this research into consideration as I work with adult learners, but I also hope to move forward with additional research on how adult students learn within the community college first-year writing classroom.
                                                           
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Reading Why School? 

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In this piece, I drew from theories of funds of knowledge, critical dialogues, and learning community building, this piece explores the possibility of reading Mike Rose's Why School? across a community college's first-year writing program, as a community building activity within the classroom and the larger college community.

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