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The Role of Languages in the Process of Objectification in Pattern Generalization in a Multilingual Mathematics Classroom
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El Mouhayar, Rabih – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2022
The purpose of this study is to investigate how languages in a multilingual classroom come to participate in the objectification process in the context of pattern generalization. Data came from the transcription of 10 videotaped sessions in grade 7. A mixed quantitative-qualitative approach was adopted for the analysis. The significance of triadic…
Descriptors: Language Role, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Grade 7
Executive Functions and English Reading Comprehension among Filipino Students
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Garcia, Glenda Darlene V. – Reading Psychology, 2023
Recent studies have proposed developments to the Simple View of Reading to reflect reading development across age groups and differences among learner profiles and account for additional factors that explain reading comprehension performance beyond word recognition and language comprehension. One of these proposals is the inclusion of cognitive…
Descriptors: Executive Function, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Globalisation of the Ukrainian Language Lexical System: Age, Gender and Educational Dimensions
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Semeniuk, Oleh; Leleka, Tetyana; Moskalenko, Olena – Advanced Education, 2020
The article is aimed at the analysis of a linguistic problem of the use of Anglo-American loanwords in the Ukrainian language connected with the English globalisation and transformation into the language of international communication. The authors argue that the Anglo-Americanisms can be transferable to the original Ukrainian synonymous words…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Ukrainian, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Revisiting Ferguson's Defining Cases of Diglossia
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Snow, Don – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2013
While the defining cases of diglossia offered in Charles Ferguson's 1959 article have long been useful as vehicles for introducing this important form of societal multilingualism, they are also problematic in that they differ from each other in a number of significant ways. This article proposes a modified and more precise framework in which…
Descriptors: Dialects, Multilingualism, Classification, Classical Languages
Robert Phillipson Responds to Humphrey Tonkin's "Language and the Ingenuity Gap in Science: The Empire of Scientific English"
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Phillipson, Robert – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2011
Humphrey Tonkin's article (2011, this issue) refers to many relevant parameters in the current dominance of English in science. His conclusion that publication in English "is erroneously equated with scientific advancement in general" is a disturbingly valid generalization that ultimately reflects ignorance, prejudice, and myopia.…
Descriptors: Ideology, Foreign Countries, Native Speakers, English (Second Language)
Effects of Labeling on Preschoolers' Explicit False Belief Performance: Outcomes of Cognitive Flexibility or Inhibitory Control?
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Low, Jason; Simpson, Samantha – Child Development, 2012
Executive function mechanisms underpinning language-related effects on theory of mind understanding were examined in a sample of 165 preschoolers. Verbal labels were manipulated to identify relevant perspectives on an explicit false belief task. In Experiment 1 with 4-year-olds (N = 74), false belief reasoning was superior in the fully and…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Preschool Children, Executive Function, Beliefs