Raising the literacy bar for economically-disadvantaged students

这个项目的目的是在经济困难的学生中促进更高层次的扫盲技能。在识字率较高的知识经济中，较高的识字率对于有效地参与学术、经济和个人生活领域至关重要。如果为弱势学生提供服务的学校主要侧重于基本技能培训，那么这些学生发展高级识字技能的机会就很有限。这个项目将调查澳大利亚和香港政策和实践中的矛盾，以了解为什么以及如何支持或不支持弱势学生学习更高层次的识字技能。它还探索了促进弱势学生在学习基本技能的同时进行此类学习的成功做法。这将带来显著的好处，例如提供对政策-实践界面的新概念理解和经验证据，以指导设计有效的实践，促进澳大利亚和香港经济困难学生的高级识字技能和基本技能。

This project aims to promote higher order literacy skills among economically-disadvantaged students. Higher order literacy is critical for productive engagement in academic, economic and personal spheres of life in literacy-rich knowledge economies. Opportunities for disadvantaged students to develop advanced literacy skills are limited if schools serving these students focus predominantly on basic skills training. This project will investigate contradictions in policies and practices in Australia and Hong Kong to understand why and how disadvantaged students are supported or unsupported to learn higher-order literacy skills. It also explores successful practices that promote such learning, alongside basic skills, for disadvantaged students. This will provide significant benefits such as providing new conceptual understandings of the policy-practice interface and empirical evidence to inform the design of effective practices that promote higher-order literacy skills, alongside basic skills, for economically-disadvantaged students in Australia and Hong Kong.