thesisthoughts

Ilana Snyder wrote a chapter in the new Encyclopedia of language and education called “Research approaches to the study of literacy, technology and learning”. The chapter is basically a literature review of surveying relevant issues which have been studied in the past 30 years. Reading the chapter was recommended to me after my disappointment in my last assignment. 

The text is organized, the reader is informed of the author’s aims and the section headings help the reader navigate his or her way through the large number of studies presented. The information is organized chronologically but within each time period studies are grouped together by research methods and other relevant factors.  

The subheadings are:

1. Introduction
2. Early developments (1978 – 1993)
3. Major contributions (1990’s)
4. Work in progress (2002 – )
5. Problems and difficulties
6. Future directions

* The dates are not part of the headings.

I will be able to use this text as an example when writing literature reviews in the future. I must say that I don’t feel confident that I will ever be able to reach this level of clarity and comprehensibility.

Snyder, I.(2008). Research approaches to the study of literacy, technology and learning. In K. A. King & N. H. Hornberger (Eds), Encyclopedia of language and education Volume 10: Research methods in language and education (2^nd ed. pp. 299-308). Springer science and business media LLC.

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