Tag: literacy developement
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Coaching Early Childhood Teachers to Use Teaching Strategies that Support Young Children’s Literacy Development
18th March, 2014 12:30 to 14:00 Room204, Rumme Shaw Building, HKU Dr. Wu-Ying Hsieh, LDD, Faculty of Education, HKU This presentation is part of SoL-SRT Symposium – Literacy development. Abstract Dr Hsieh will provide information derived from a research project with a focus on teaching strategies that support emergent literacy in preschoolers. These three “skill…
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A Study of Evaluative Strategies in Student-produced Crime News Texts
18th March, 2014 12:30 to 14:00 Room204, Rumme Shaw Building, HKU Ms Aditi Dubey-Jhaveri, Centennial College, HKU This presentation is part of SoL-SRT Symposium – Literacy development. Abstract The research draws on Appraisal Theory within functional linguistics to investigate the evaluative strategies through which objectivity is constructed in 40 student-produced crime news texts obtained from…