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"You can try sound brainy": The use of process drama to engage Pasifika boys

Author(s): Claire Coleman
This study explored whether using process drama to teach social studies would engage Year 10 Pasifika boys at a secondary school in Auckland. The author describes how, while in role, students used...
| Year published: 2011 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

Prior Knowledge and How it Influences Classroom Learning. What does the Research tell us?

A review of the many research projects on how prior knowledge affects learning. Generally, having old knowledge to which new knowledge may be attached greatly assists learning the new.
| Year published: 1994 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article

Reading-related language abilities: Māori children “at promise”

Author(s): Fleur Harris
The skills of oral narrative and phonological awareness are seen as precursors and predictors of reading development. In this study of bilingual Māori primary school students, Fleur Harris found that...
| Year published: 1999 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: PDF icon set2009_3_11.pdf | Content type: Set article