Explicit instructional support in the teaching of writing to primary school students

• Main Author: Tan, Karen Mui Lian.
• Other Authors: Anneliese Kramer Dahl
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Education::Teachers and teaching
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/20351
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This research focuses on the need to provide explicit instructional support, or systematic and directed scaffolding strategies, to primary school students who come from linguistically disadvantaged home backgrounds in the area of their learning to write. To emphasise this need, the study examines fi...