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Neugebauer, Philipp; Prediger, Susanne – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2023
The quality of curriculum resources and teaching practices can constrain or promote students' opportunities for mathematics learning, in particular, students with diverse language proficiency. The video study investigates 18 classes that all used the same curriculum resources aimed at developing 367 seventh graders' conceptual understanding of…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Equal Education
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Carolyn McKinney – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Framed by decolonial theory, this paper explores how language and literacy ideologies, including Anglonormativity, or the expectation that children should be proficient in a standardised version of English and are deficient if not, shape language and literacy practices in South African classrooms. While not legitimised, the use of fluid language…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Bilingualism, Ethnography, Decolonization
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Schnur, Erin; Rubio, Fernando – Language Learning & Technology, 2021
Using the 2.4-million-word written Spanish subsection of the Corpus of Utah Dual Language Immersion, collected from a large-scale standardized writing assessment of K-12 Spanish second language (L2) students, this study focuses on lexical complexity as operationalized by three measures: lexical diversity, lexical density, and lexical…
Descriptors: Spanish, Immersion Programs, Computational Linguistics, Bilingual Education Programs
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Deroo, Matthew R.; Ponzio, Christina M. – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2023
Drawing upon tenets of Critical Multilingual Language Awareness (CMLA), we analyzed multimodal compositions created by preservice teachers (PSTs) from two institutions to investigate their meaning-making at the nexus of language, identity, and power. Through analysis of PSTs' multimodal compositions, reflective writing about their coursework, and…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Metalinguistics, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs
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Hannah, L.; Kim, H.; Jang, E. E. – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2022
As a branch of artificial intelligence, automated speech recognition (ASR) technology is increasingly used to detect speech, process it to text, and derive the meaning of natural language for various learning and assessment purposes. ASR inaccuracy may pose serious threats to valid score interpretations and fair score use for all when it is…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Artificial Intelligence, Speech Communication, Audio Equipment
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Gross, Esther; Crawford, Jenifer – CATESOL Journal, 2021
This article offers a critical interpretation of the current trends in instructional models for English language learners in California. We review key instructional models and analyze them from traditional (teacher-centered), progressive (student-centered), and critical orientations (society- and power-centered). These instructional models share…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Equal Education, Multilingualism, Progressive Education
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Eghbaria-Ghanamah, Hazar; Ghanamah, Rafat; Shalhoub-Awwad, Yasmin; Adi-Japha, Esther; Karni, Avi – Developmental Psychology, 2020
A large linguistic distance exists between spoken Arabic and the Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) the literary language (a diglosia). Novice readers, therefore, struggle with the complex orthography of Arabic as well as the mastering of MSA. Here, we tested whether structured activities in MSA would advance kindergarteners' MSA aptitude by the end of…
Descriptors: Nursery Rhymes, Kindergarten, Semitic Languages, Intervention
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Bai, Rui; Hu, Guangwei; Gu, Peter Yongqi – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2014
This article reports on a questionnaire-based investigation of writing strategies used by Singapore primary school pupils. A sample of 1,618 pupils from two local primary schools participated in the study. A number of one-way ANOVA analyses were run to measure the relationship between the participants' use of writing strategies and their English…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Strategies, Language Proficiency, English (Second Language)
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Allard, Elaine; Mortimer, Katherine; Gallo, Sarah; Link, Holly; Wortham, Stanton – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2014
Latino students' educational success is central to America's prosperity--in traditional immigrant destinations and in New Latino Diaspora locations, previously unfamiliar with Latinos. Implicated in this success is the reception young immigrants receive, especially the ways in which they are identified in schools. We describe findings from 6 years…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Spanish, Academic Achievement, Hispanic American Students
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Llach, Mª Pilar Agustin; Catalan, Rosa M. – International Journal of English Studies, 2007
The purpose of this study is to ascertain whether the type of instruction (English as vehicular language and English as a subject) is related to the use of reiteration ties. In the first place, we identified, classified, and counted the number and kind of reiteration ties used by two groups of EFL learners. Secondly, we examined whether…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Nouns