Article published In: Australian Review of Applied Linguistics
Vol. 31:2 (2008) ► pp.20.1–20.15
Literacy skills of bachelor of education (primary) students
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Published online: 1 January 2008
https://doi.org/10.2104/aral0820
https://doi.org/10.2104/aral0820
This article describes a project which identified the skills and abilities in written literacy of preservice teachers, as well as their needs in this area. An intervention to address their needs is evaluated and its outcomes assessed, using a combination of quantitative and qualitative analyses. Results show that it is possible to improve these students’ literacy skills and awareness even with such a short intervention as is described here. However, the intervention was most successful in dealing with lower-level linguistic variables such as punctuation and spelling, in contrast to higher-level text and paragraph structures.
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