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Junren Wang; Ling Yann Wong; Muhammad Alif Redzuan Bin Abdullah – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2024
Translation, from a cultural perspective, is the exchange and communication between two distinct cultures, posing a challenge to the translator to possess not only fluency but also a deep understanding of the history and culture of both languages. This study examined the comprehension abilities for translation strategies of native Chinese English…
Descriptors: Translation, Semantics, Language Usage, English (Second Language)
Troyan, Francis John; King, Nicole; Bramli, Ahmed – Foreign Language Annals, 2021
Framed within the discussions of the knowledge base for language immersion teachers, this article presents a qualitative case study of a first-year Grade 2 French immersion teacher's enactment of his systemic functional linguistic (SFL) knowledge to position his students in a culturally sustaining genre pedagogy. We examined interactive events and…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Spycher, Pamela; Girard, Vanessa; Moua, Bao – Theory Into Practice, 2020
Among the many approaches proposed for closing opportunity and achievement gaps is supporting student's academic language development. Often, however, instructional approaches that are more familiar to teachers, such as helping students learn new vocabulary, are prioritized over more complex and less familiar explorations into disciplinary…
Descriptors: Hmong People, Culturally Relevant Education, Elementary School Students, Literacy Education
Smith, Adrina O. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study examined the latent factors of dialect variation as they relate to reading achievement of second grade students. Sociocultural theory, identity theories, and critical theory used against a metaphorical backdrop of a bundle of locks were used to illustrate the complexity of language variation and its effect on reading achievement within…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Nonstandard Dialects, Language Variation, Screening Tests
Lewis, Mark C. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Whether or not we are teachers, all of us must make sense of language. In doing so, we encounter representations of language, implicit or explicit descriptions which shift over time and are always tied to social and political interests. Teachers' work necessarily depends on these descriptions, which are deeply embedded within their…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Social Influences, Political Attitudes, Language Skills
MacRuairc, Gerry – Language and Education, 2011
The central role played by language in mediating school experience and the prestige accorded to standard language varieties within the field of education provide the broad rationale for this paper. This qualitative study, based on a friendship focus-group design, was conducted in two groups of 12-year-old children from contrasting "ideal…
Descriptors: Social Class, Language Variation, Educational Experience, Elementary School Students
Pickford, Steve – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2005
This paper explores issues of linguistic and cultural continuity in vernacular education in the south pacific state of Papua New Guinea (PNG). It draws from an ongoing ethnographic study of the introduction of vernacular teaching in elementary and lower primary schooling where English has recently been replaced as the medium of instruction making…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Multilingualism, Sociolinguistics