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Gómez-Jiménez, Eva M.; Bartley, Leanne Victoria – Applied Linguistics, 2023
Experts in different fields have claimed that the UK has experienced a process of growing economic inequality since the 1970s. Following Fairclough's dialectal-relational approach, this paper presents a detailed, systematic analysis of the representation of homeless people and homelessness in "The Guardian" and "Daily Mail"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Homeless People, Newspapers, News Reporting
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Tempo Po-Yi Tang; Yu-Yin Hsu; Dustin Kai-Yan Lau; Man-Tak Leung – SAGE Open, 2024
Aspect markers (AMs), temporal adverbs (TAs) and temporal nouns (TNs) are used by young Mandarin-speaking children to express time. However, the factors that affect the relative acquisition trajectories of these categories remains unclear. Accordingly, this study adopts Weist's time-concept model to examine the patterns of acquisition between and…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Language Acquisition, Age Differences, Grammar
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Kamber, Ege; Mazachowsky, Tessa R.; Mahy, Caitlin E. V. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2023
The development of children's future-oriented cognition has become a popular research topic in the past two decades. Much of this research focuses on the preschool and middle childhood years, but very little is known about the future-oriented cognitive abilities of toddlers and young preschoolers. The present study investigated the emergence of…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Parents, Child Development, Cognitive Processes
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Marcus, Alan P. – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2023
This essay will discuss an approach in the pedagogy of geography that engages students with the interpretation, imagination, and the complex understandings and dimensions of geographic thought. My goal here is to make the explicit connection between place experiences (autobiography) and place, sense of place, and geographic thought. I underline…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Place Based Education, Geography Instruction, Learning Experience
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Mitch Olson; Chris C. Palmer – Across the Disciplines, 2024
This article explores academic and industry perspectives on the use of dialect, slang, and historical language in screenwriting. It offers a chronological overview of major screenwriting manuals' treatment of dialect and slang (or lack thereof) 1946-2020. It then presents survey data of 53 currently-practicing screenwriters' views on working with…
Descriptors: Film Study, Scripts, Writing (Composition), Dialects
Mary dos Santos; Wendy Cumming-Potvin; Elizabeth Jackson-Barrett – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2024
This case study is based on research conducted within the plurilingual context of Vanuatu, formerly a condominium colony of Britain and France. A surfeit of heritage languages exists within this context, alongside the European languages of English and French and the national language of Bislama, an English-lexifier pidgin. With the existence of…
Descriptors: Personal Narratives, Content Analysis, Postcolonialism, Context Effect