Improving literacy and content learning across the curriculum? How teachers relate literacy teaching to school subjects in cross-curricular professional development

• Published in: Education Inquiry Vol. 10; no. 4; pp. 368 - 384
• Main Author: Kirsten, Nils
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 02.10.2019; Taylor & Francis Group
• Subjects: Audio Equipment; Classification; Content Area Reading; Content Area Writing; content-area literacy; Correlation; Course Content; disciplinary literacy; Education; Educational Improvement; Educational Objectives; Elementary School Teachers; Faculty Development; Foreign Countries; Interdisciplinary Approach; Language Usage; Literacy Education; Meetings; Metalinguistics; Pedagogik; Program Descriptions; Reading Ability; Secondary School Teachers; Teacher Attitudes; Teachers' professional development; Teaching Methods; Vocabulary Development; Sweden
• ISSN: 2000-4508; 2000-4508
• DOI: 10.1080/20004508.2019.1580983

This study examined how teachers relate literacy teaching to their ordinary subject teaching in professional development settings. The study is conducted within the large Swedish professional development program the Literacy Boost (in Swedish "Läslyftet"), which can be viewed as an example...