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Culligan, Karla; Wagner, David – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2015
While all mathematics is mediated by language, the role of language is especially complex in bi- and multilingual mathematics classrooms, and more so in bilingual education programs in which the explicit goals of both language and mathematics learning intersect. We explore bilingual French immersion students' linguistic and mathematical…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Vocabulary, Bilingual Students, Interpersonal Communication
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Dutro, Elizabeth; Selland, Makenzie – Curriculum Inquiry, 2012
A significant body of research articulates concerns about the current emphasis on high-stakes testing as the primary lever of education reform in the United States. However, relatively little research has focused on how children make sense of the assessment policies in which they are centrally located. In this article, we share analyses of…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, Discourse Analysis, Literature Appreciation, Educational Change
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Wolbers, Kimberly A.; Dimling, Lisa M.; Lawson, Heather R.; Golos, Debbie B. – American Annals of the Deaf, 2012
The study examined the extent to which a highly qualified interpreter remained parallel with or diverged from the original classroom discourse in her interpreting for a 3rd-grade deaf student in science, social studies, and resource room. The interpreter's signed and verbalized expressions were compared to the class participants' expressions for…
Descriptors: Deafness, Science Instruction, Social Studies, Resource Room Programs
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Honig, Sheryl – Written Communication, 2010
This article reports on the types of scientific writing found in two primary grade classrooms. These results are part of a larger two-year study whose purpose was to examine the development of informational writing of second- and third-grade students as they participated in integrated science-literacy instruction. The primary purpose of the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary School Science, Discourse Analysis, Science Instruction
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Pacheco, Mariana – Reading Research Quarterly, 2010
This case study of reading activity in third-grade bilingual classrooms at a state-sanctioned "successful" school examines the influences of the California accountability framework--Proposition 227, No Child Left Behind, and the federal Reading First program--on shifting beliefs and practices around what "counts" as reading.…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Bilingual Education, Reading Achievement, Bilingualism
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Lesley, Mellinee K.; Hamman, Doug; Olivarez, Arturo; Button, Kathryn; Griffith, Robin – Teacher Educator, 2009
This research is an examination of the interactions between 19 pairs of student teachers and cooperating teachers engaged in guided reading instruction in Grades 1 through 3. As the basis for the study, the authors analyzed interaction patterns through conducting content analysis (Van Sluys, Lewison, & Seely Flint, 2006) and discourse analysis…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Behavior Patterns, Discourse Analysis, Interaction
Kane, Justine M. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This is a qualitative study of identities constructed and enacted by four 3rd-grade African American children (two girls and two boys) in an urban classroom that engaged in a year-long, integrated science-literacy project. Juxtaposing narrative and discursive identity lenses, coupled with race and gender perspectives, I examined the ways in which…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, African American Children, Urban Schools, Science Instruction
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Heffernan, Lee; Lewison, Mitzi – Language Arts, 2005
Critical literacy practices in a third-grade classroom involved working with texts that disrupted commonplace assumptions about social norms. As students read and talked about social issues such as racism, ageism, and sexism, they became "border crossers" in their school lunchroom. Without informing their teacher, they worked on a social action…
Descriptors: Gender Bias, Social Action, Discourse Analysis, Social Responsibility
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Southerland, Sherry; Kittleson, Julie; Settlage, John; Lanier, Kimberly – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2005
We examined third graders' understandings of condensation using an expanded notion of the Emergent Perspective, a reflexive consideration of individual and group meaning-making situated in the culture of the classroom. Data were collected from two small groups of students in an inquiry-based, urban classroom during a unit on the water cycle.…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Science Education, Water, Urban Schools