Sentence examples for literacy practices from inspiring English sources

His doctoral study explores the digital literacy practices arising when adult learners complete writing assignments for a course.

Schooling in Western societies is successful in achieving relatively high levels of literacy in part because of the literacy practices in the larger society.

Okawa (2008) investigated the process of constituting academic literacy practices of a Japanese first year nursing student.

Academic literacies are construed in the present case study as set of socially situated multimodal literacy practices.

These correlates include self-assessments of one's ability to understand, read and write English, and literacy practices at home.

The study revealed that the linguistic landscape could serve as a vehicle for teaching about language diversity and literacy practices from a critical perspective.

Also, not only the work context offers opportunities for skill use, and reading for leisure or other forms of literacy practice outside of work have also been shown to contribute to skill maintenance and enhancement after formal education both for the US (Smith 1996) as well as cross-nationally (Desjardins 2003; OECD 2013a, chapter 5; OECD and Statistics Canada 2000a).

This factor mediates some of the effect of parental education, but also has an effect on top of that: families with low levels of formal education that nevertheless possess more books provide a more cognitively stimulating environment, especially more opportunities for engagement in literacy practice, for their children than families with no or fewer books (Evans et al. 2010).

The importance of patient engagement and question asking has also been emphasized in health literacy practice [ 22– 22].

Although the new instructional approach presented here is still under development, preliminary results show promise that visual-literacy practices may facilitate children's development of writing skills with regard to vocabulary, narrative structure and originality, through a better sense of observation and increased inferential thinking.

Instructions incorporated the UMS and health literacy best practices whenever possible.