An Investigation of Teachers' Concerns About Vocabulary and the Representation of These Concerns in Content Literacy Methodology Textbooks
| Autor: | Jean Vintinner, Wanda B. Hedrick, Karen D. Wood, Patricia Hill-Miller, Janis M. Harmon |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Linguistics and Language
Vocabulary media_common.quotation_subject Teaching method Representation (arts) Teacher education Vocabulary development Literacy Education Content analysis ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION Developmental and Educational Psychology Mathematics education Content (Freudian dream analysis) Psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Reading Psychology. 30:319-339 |
| ISSN: | 1521-0685 0270-2711 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/02702710802411562 |
| Popis: | The purpose of this study was twofold: to (a) find out what questions currently practicing middle grade teachers have about vocabulary instruction and (b) determine what current undergraduate content area textbooks include that provide answers to these vocabulary questions. As researchers and practitioners directly responsible for teaching preservice middle grades teachers, this was a beginning step in examining whether our own teacher preparation programs are meeting the needs of new teachers as they encounter the demands of teaching vocabulary in their content areas. Teacher concerns about vocabulary instruction were determined by a survey instrument administered to 390 middle school teachers to ascertain questions they have about teaching vocabulary. A content analysis of the three leading content area textbooks was then undertaken to determine to what degree the top five concerns of middle grades teachers were addressed in these texts. Though direct information on how to teach vocabulary was provided,... |
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