revision | Strategic & Interactive Writing Instruction (SIWI)

Strategic and Interactive Writing Instruction (SIWI): Apprenticing deaf students in the construction of informative text

By Susannah FinleyPosted on November 13, 2018Posted in DissertationsTagged apprenticeship, efficacy study, fluency/length, interactive, language delay/deprivation, linguistic/metalinguistic, revision, strategic, word identification, writing, written language

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of writing instruction that was strategic and interactive, namely Strategic and Interactive Writing Instruction (SIWI), when utilized with deaf, middle school students. In addition to strategic and interactive instruction, four minor instructional components included: (a) use of writing examples and non-examples; (b) metalinguistic knowledge building; […]

Using balanced and interactive writing instruction to improve the higher order and lower order writing skills of deaf students

By Susannah FinleyPosted on October 12, 2018Posted in Research Journal ArticlesTagged apprenticeship, genre, grammar, interactive, revision, word identification, writing, written language

The current study reports the findings of balanced and interactive writing instruction used with 16 deaf and hard of hearing students. Although the instruction has been used previously, this was the first time it had been modified to suit the specific needs of deaf children and the first time it had been implemented with this […]