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Richmond Embeywa – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2025
This article explores how ideology is embedded in the cultural content of textbooks used in Germany's integration courses for migrants. Using critical multimodal discourse analysis, I analyze two dimensions of meaning in linguistic and visual (multimodal) texts: meaning as representation and meaning as inter/action. I analyze how social actors are…
Descriptors: German, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Textbooks
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Tyler Barrett; Hiroshi Miyashita – Journal of English as an International Language, 2016
Governments are challenged with pursuing macro-level interests for the good of the group, while also needing to accommodate and to acknowledge the needs and preferences of people at the micro-level. Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's (MEXT) "English Education Reform Plan corresponding to…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Educational Change, Language Planning, Educational Policy
Adler, Jill, Ed.; Sfard, Anna, Ed. – Routledge Research in Education, 2016
"Research for Educational Change" presents ways in which educational research can fulfil its commitments to educational practice. Focussing its discussion within the context of mathematics education, it argues that while research-generated insights can have beneficial effects on learning and teaching, the question of how these effects…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Research, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Instruction
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Child, Sue – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2009
Within education, the term "research" is used in a multiplicity of ways. This paper draws on my own reflection of how educational practitioners experience shifting relationships to research. It suggests that within the further education (FE) sector, professionalism in teaching is measured through observation in the form of the Ofsted…
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Theory Practice Relationship, Higher Education, Foreign Countries
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Petersen, Eva Bendix – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2008
Drawing on material collected amongst Danish and Australian humanities and social science academics, the article illustrates and problematises a particular and recurring discursive practice amongst academics: "the conduct of concern". Conceptualising the conduct of concern as an exclusionary and de-legitimising discursive practice, the…
Descriptors: Social Sciences, Discourse Analysis, Humanities, Academic Discourse
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Riley, P. – European Journal of Teacher Education, 1984
An investigation of the process of language teaching as communication in a cross-cultural context shows that there is potential for misunderstanding. Examples of types of errors that are pragmatic rather than grammatical are discussed. A model is presented to help understand the pragmatic error. (DF)
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Cultural Differences, Cultural Traits, Discourse Analysis
Fahmny, Jane Jackson; Bilton, Linda – Guidelines, 1992
The linguistic features of 40 science lectures were examined at Sultan Qaboos University. Results are reported and suggestions are offered for helping English for Academic Purposes instructors and materials writers improve the listening and note-taking skills of nonnative students. (Contains eight references.) (LB)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English for Academic Purposes, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Dingmin, Wu – Guidelines, 1992
The reader's knowledge about how a message is woven into discourse plays an important role in reading comprehension. This article first reviews reasons for student difficulties in comprehension, sentence groups, and sense units and then presents a basic discourse framework and its applications for analyzing text passages. (Contains two…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Decoding (Reading), Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
Pearson, E. – 1985
Within the field of linguistics there are several very different approaches to discourse analysis. Sociolinguists look at the structure of social interaction as manifested in conversation. Psycholinguists are concerned with aspects related to language comprehension. Philosophical and formal linguists are interested in the semantic relationships…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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Taylor, Gordon; Nightingale, Peggy – Higher Education Research and Development, 1990
Studies in 1974 and 1984 of errors in the writing of Australian university freshmen in a history course found no significant differences between the two groups. The most salient elements in the error-prone writing were less related to writing mechanics than to constitution of meaning, suggesting that grammar instruction is inadequate to improve…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Discourse Analysis, Educational Strategies, Error Patterns
Seliman, Salbiah – 1995
A study investigated the genre, structure, and delivery of oral presentations in engineering delivered in English as a first and as a second language. Eleven manufacturing engineering presentations, four by non-native speakers of English and seven by native speakers in Loughborough, United Kingdom, were analyzed with reference to the discourse…
Descriptors: Coherence, Discourse Analysis, Engineering Education, English for Special Purposes
Nimon, Maureen – 1992
Two studies focused on children's reading but employed very different procedures and techniques. The first study examined the link between the levels of children's reading comprehension and the quantity of reading they did. Subjects, 198 children chosen at random from years 5, 6, and 7 of a single elementary school in Adelaide, Australia,…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Discourse Analysis, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries
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Kirk, David – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 1990
Reviews studies that have examined curriculum packages, focusing on how school knowledge is ideologically structured and organized. Borrows from discourse analysis to develop a theoretical framework for investigating how knowledge and meaning-production can be influenced. Illustrates the framework's use to design and conduct a study of a physical…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Research, Discourse Analysis
Voss, Bernd – 1985
As part of a study of the language used to conduct daily business in typical West German classroom situations, 30 native English speakers observed selected classroom interactions and used questionnaires to classify them and paraphrase them in English. The observers were from a variety of English-speaking countries, and some had explicitly…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Observation Techniques, Cultural Context, Discourse Analysis
Fleer, Marilyn – 1995
Taking a Vygotskian perspective, this monograph focuses on the quality of interaction between children and staff in Australian child care and education programs. Aspects of quality interaction are presented through examples of interaction and through personal stories of staff analyzing their interactional patterns through video and audiotapes.…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Day Care, Discourse Analysis, Early Childhood Education
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