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Rajendram, Shakina – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
Translanguaging offers a new perspective on language learning by affirming and leveraging the diverse language practices that make up learners' unitary language repertoire as resources for their learning. Despite the potential pedagogical benefits of translanguaging, English-only policies are still prevalent in many language classrooms. Even when…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Language of Instruction
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Basterrechea, María; Gallardo-del-Puerto, Francisco – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2020
A considerable body of research within the interaction framework (Long, 1996) has centred on the language-related episodes (LREs) which occur when learners topicalize a specific linguistic item while they are engaged in meaning-focused tasks. Several studies have shown that the production of LREs may be influenced by the proficiency level of the…
Descriptors: Content and Language Integrated Learning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Sociocultural Patterns
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Jensen, Bryant; Valdés, Guadalupe; Gallimore, Ronald – Educational Researcher, 2021
Language in education for children and youth from low-income communities of color, including those learning English as an additional language, has been fraught for decades with ideological entanglements, conceptual ambiguities, and empirical limitations. Meanwhile, the teacher learning challenge to implement equitable teaching practices remains…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Classroom Communication, Lesson Plans, Video Technology
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Boyd, Maureen; Kong, Yiren – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2017
Reasoning words are linguistic features associated with classroom exploratory talk as students talk-to-learn, explore ideas, and probe each other's thinking. This study extends established research on use of reasoning words to a fourth- to fifth-grade literature-based English language learning context. We examined frequency and patterning of…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Grade 4, Grade 5, Elementary School Students
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Steeg, Susanna M. – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2016
Professional learning communities (PLCs) constitute worthwhile spaces in which to study teacher participation in the reflective practices that have potential to shift their teaching. This qualitative case study details the interactions between dual-language and ELL teachers in a grade-level PLC as they met together to confer over video-clips of…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Communities of Practice, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Davin, Kristin J. – Language Teaching Research, 2013
This article explores how a primary school teacher utilized the frameworks of dynamic assessment (DA) and the instructional conversation (IC) within a Spanish as a foreign language classroom. DA was used to construct zones of proximal development with individuals in the classroom context. A menu of pre-scripted assisting prompts, used to respond…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Sociocultural Patterns, Spanish, Second Language Instruction
Davin, Kristin Johnson – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Although researchers have begun to explore the implementation of dynamic assessment (DA) with foreign language learners, few of these studies have occurred in the language classroom. Whereas DA is typically implemented in dyads, promising research in the field of foreign language learning suggests that DA may promote development with groups of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Program Effectiveness, Second Language Programs, Grade 5
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Martin-Beltran, Melinda – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2010
This study examines the social construction of proficiency and the discursive practices prevalent in linguistically diverse schools that afford or constrain participation in language learning communities. Drawing from discourse studies, positioning theory and a sociocultural framework, this study analyzed data from audio recordings and…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Grade 5, Language Proficiency
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Martin-Beltran, Melinda – Modern Language Journal, 2010
Using a sociocultural theoretical lens, this study examines the nature of student interactions in a dual immersion school to analyze affordances for bilingual language learning, language exchange, and co-construction of language expertise. This article focuses on data from audio- and video-recorded interactions of fifth-grade students engaged in…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition, Second Language Instruction
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Olson, Kate – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2009
This article examines the implications of educational policies on teachers' beliefs and practices for English learners (ELs) in the context of the California educational reform agenda. By utilizing cultural-historical activity theory, this study paints a personal and pedagogical portrait of how 2 educated and experienced bilingual teachers…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Educational Change, Autobiographies, Bilingual Teachers
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Brock, Cynthia H. – Urban Education, 2007
This investigation is an ethnographic case study of the literacy learning opportunities of a fifth-grade Hmong child (pseudonym Deng) who came to the United States from Laos via Thailand at the very end of his third-grade year in school. Deng was one of 25 students in a mainstream urban classroom in the Midwest during his fifth grade in school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 5, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning