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Literacy and Access to the Opportunities of Democracy
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In: Internship Reflection Papers (2021)
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The United States Department of Education in 2019 reported that 54% of adults cannot read or write past a third-grade level. Literacy Volunteers is a non-profit organization whose mission is to teach literacy to those adults who lack proficiency in literacy. In summer 2021, between junior and senior years, I had an internship with Literacy Volunteers in New Haven County, CT. In the internship, I received training in literacy tutoring and Lexia (an educational reading platform), and participated in team meetings. I traveled to multiple libraries to promote and increase awareness of the program, recruited tutors and students, and directly delivered the literacy program to community members. Through this community engagement, I learned about how important public libraries are to communities that may neither have computers nor ready internet access. Since libraries offered internet access, they were important hubs to connect Literacy Volunteers to these underserved communities. Through teaching in the community, I realized that literacy, as well as computer skills, were critical in preparing non-readers to apply for opportunities, including employment. Non-readers often feel shame about their illiteracy, shame that escapes literate people, who may take the ability to read for granted. One of my students spoke perfectly but was not able to remember the pronunciation of the written words. Within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and struggles between politics, public health, and equity; I became aware of how the inability to read and to write is a critical deficit to full access to opportunities. There are still illiterate adults in our country and part of my internship was finding those people, learning their stories, and helping them learn how to read. To this day, I am still deeply involved with Literacy Volunteers by continuing to train for tutoring and to recruit tutors on campus.
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Accessibility; Adult and Continuing Education; Curriculum and Instruction; Disability and Equity in Education; Education; English; Language and Literacy Education; Linguistics; Literacy; Reading and Language; Volunteering
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URL: https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/internreflect/2184 https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3165&context=internreflect
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The L2L system for second language learning using visualised zoom calls among students
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In: Dey-Plissonneau, Aparajita, Lee, Hyowon orcid:0000-0003-4395-7702 , Pradier, Vincent orcid:0000-0002-7050-6408 , Scriney, Michael orcid:0000-0001-6813-2630 and Smeaton, Alan F. orcid:0000-0003-1028-8389 (2021) The L2L system for second language learning using visualised zoom calls among students. In: 16th European Conference on Technology-Enhanced Learning EC-TEL 2021, 20-24 Sept 2021, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (Online). ISBN 978-3-030-86435-4 (2021)
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Layout of Current US-China Online PD Programs for Chinese Language
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In: Chinese Language Teaching Methodology and Technology (2021)
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Digital technology: between demythification, modelling and returns on experience ; Le numérique : entre démythification, modélisations et retours d’expérience
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In: ISSN: 0339-7513 ; Éducation permanente ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03153855 ; Éducation permanente, Arcueil : Éducation permanente, 2021, 2021-1 : Questions en revue : travail, numérique, accompagnement (226) ; http://www.education-permanente.fr/public/articles/articles.php?id_revue=1771&id_article=2956#resume2956 (2021)
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Language Management in Diaspora: Tu’un Nda’vi, Spanish, English, Constricted Agency, and Social Capital in a Oaxacan Indigenous Diasporic Community
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The Overlooked Working Majority: Supporting Working Adult Learners at California Community Colleges with Intentionality
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Educating for Global Competence: Co-Constructing Outcomes in the Field: An Action Research Project
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In: All Antioch University Dissertations & Theses (2021)
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Between PIAAC and the new literacy studies. What adult education can learn from large-scale assessments without adopting the neo-liberal paradigm ...
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Capitalism, migration, and adult education. Toward a critical project in the second language learning class ...
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Home attributes that relate to language and literacy attainments: A systematic review of studies from low- and middle-income countries ...
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Two for the Price of One! A Study of Persistence of Adult Education Students pursuing a High School Equivalency Credentiial and a Study of the Researcher's Experience Conducting that Study.
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In: Dissertations (2021)
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Between PIAAC and the new literacy studies. What adult education can learn from large-scale assessments without adopting the neo-liberal paradigm
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In: Münster ; New York : Waxmann 2021, 265 S. - (Alphabetisierung und Grundbildung; 14) (2021)
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Globalisierung: Mehrsprachigkeit oder "English only" ; Globalization: Multilingualism or "English only"
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In: Magazin erwachsenenbildung.at (2021) 42, 9 S. (2021)
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Capitalism, migration, and adult education. Toward a critical project in the second language learning class
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In: European journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults 12 (2021) 1, S. 65-79 (2021)
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Educational Policies and Schooling for Arabic Speaking Refugee Children in Australia and Turkey
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In: Australian Journal of Teacher Education (2021)
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Raising Awareness about Task Assessment Rubrics in Task Based Language Teaching ...
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L'alfabeto con meno parabaleni. Una proposta per un'educazione alla letto-scrittura in italiano L2 con giovani e adulti scarsamente o non alfabetizzati nella L1 e scarsamente o non scolarizzati. ...
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“Eu sei screvé bonito com caneta…divagarinho, divagarinho…”: estudo de caso sobre um projeto coletivo em alfabetização e literacia em português língua não materna, junto de migrantes adultos
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Globalisierung: Mehrsprachigkeit oder "English only" ... : Globalization: Multilingualism or "English only" ...
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Fritz, Thomas. - : Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Forschung, 2021
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A Comparative Analysis of Levels of Importance, Satisfaction, and Engagement among Adult Learners and Tennessee Reconnect Recipients at two Community Colleges
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In: Electronic Theses and Dissertations (2021)
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