The Cultural Practices of Literacy Study
Completed Projects
These ethnographic case studies are completed and included in the CPLS database. More information about each case, including links to Working Papers associated with each case, can be found by clicking on the links within each case description.
Researcher |
Context |
Description of Case |
| Annah Molosiwa | Botswana | A case study of four Botswanan graduate students, studying in the US, explores current language and literacy issues in Botswana. |
| Angeles Clemente | Oaxaca, Mexico | The ecology of reading and writing within the context of a prison and the everyday lives of its inmates |
| Angeles Clemente | Oaxaca, Mexico | The literacy practices of a group of elementary school students learning English, who for the most part come from a shelter |
| Angeles Clemente | Oaxaca, Mexico | Literacy practices of future English teachers currently enrolled in the teacher education program at a public university |
| Cathy Mazak | Puerto Rico | Two farmers' usage and attitude towards English. |
| Cathy Mazak | Puerto Rico | This ethnographic case study explores the usages of English in a rural, Puerto Rican community |
| CPLS | Vancouver, Canada | The literacy practices of several families living in a marginalized, mainly non-English L1 urban neighborhood |
| Chad O'Neil | Michigan, USA | This case study looks at the influence of home and school on the literacy practices of two mid-Western, American undergraduate students. |
| Doug Eyman | North Carolina, USA | The author examines how curricular and pedagogical work of a course in writing and technology appears to help students acquire a technology discourse and reflect critically upon their digital literacy practices |
| David Gallagher | Michigan, USA | Texts and social literacy purposes are compared between in and out of school contexts for a group of struggling adolescents in an urban American school. |
| Gaoming Zhang | Michigan, USA | A case study of two Chinese American bilingual families examines literacy activities, beliefs, and values |
| Ji-Eun Kim | Vancouver, Canada | This case study explores the changes of one family's literacy practices brought about by life changes after immigrating from Korea to Canada |
| Juliet Tembe | Uganda | The relationship between home literacy practices of a rural, Ugandan family examines the relationship and the Ugandan governmen's new language (English) education policy |
| Jodene Kersten | Michigan, USA | This case study compares the home and school literacy practices of a group of fifth grade, urban students attending an after-school program in the US |
| Kristen Perry | Michigan, USA | A case study of the literacy practices of three male Sudanese refugee youth living in Michigan, US. |
| Kristen Perry | Michigan, USA | The literacy practices of three Sudanese families with young children, focusing on the families' reliance on literacy brokering, or informal assistance to understand some of the texts they encountered. |
| Kalinka Zarate | Oaxaca, Mexico | Relationship between the cultural practices of literacy and the variability in the written L2 Spanish by elementary children who are speakers of L1 Zapotec |
| Kamila Rosolova | Michigan, USA | This case study examines the literacy practices of two adult Cuban refugees in the US |
| Mario Gopar | Oaxaca, Mexico | The cultural literacy practices and hopes for their children of parents with no or low school, who have moved from rural to urban areas |
| Maryam Moayeri | Vancouver, Canada | The literacy practices in an East Vancouver neighborhood whose elementary school ranks in the lowest quartile of British Columbia schools. |
| Stephanie Collins | Indiana, USA | This case study describes one teenaged, female African-American's in- and out-of-school literacy practices, and the transactions she makes between them |
| Tracy Gates | Bolivia | The alignment between the culture and literacy practices of students and the Bolivian Fe y Alegria School, as well as the ways in which teachers are prepared to teach in ways that value and incorporate the community's practices. |
| Victoria Purcell-Gates | Michigan, USA | The literacy practices of L1 Spanish migrant farm worker families and their children's literacy experiences attending English Head Start programs. |
| Victoria Purcell-Gates | Costa Rica | The relationship between the in- and out-of-school literacy practices of marginalized Nicaraguan immigrant students |