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Björn Kindenberg – Language and Education, 2025
This study delves into the complex relationship between storytelling and historical understanding. Focused on how lower-secondary students employ narrative discourse in writing, it examines the extent to which their storytelling aids or limits historical comprehension. Drawing on systemic-functional linguistics and history education theories, the…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Story Telling, History, Comprehension
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Stuhlsatz, Molly A. M.; Buck Bracey, Zoë E.; Donovan, Brian M. – Science & Education, 2020
Conflation of sex and gender is implicated in the development of essentialist thinking, which has been linked to the justification of systems of prejudice in modern society. This exploratory study presents findings from a person randomized control trial conducted with 460 students in 8th-10th grade that investigated the extent to which students…
Descriptors: Sex, Gender Issues, Gender Bias, Grade 8
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Taylor, Karen S.; Lawrence, Joshua F.; Connor, Carol M.; Snow, Catherine E. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
The Common Core State Standards (Common Core State Standards Initiative, 2010) feature argumentative writing across the curriculum in grades 4 through 12, yet little is known about how young adolescents develop the challenging advanced language and literacy skills needed for these tasks. This study explored productive academic language use in the…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Middle School Students, Early Adolescents, Writing Assignments
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Musk, Nigel – Classroom Discourse, 2022
This study applies multimodal conversation analysis to examine how pupils of L2 English in Sweden make use of online translation tools (OTTs), i.e. bilingual dictionaries and Google Translate, in a range of digital collaborative writing tasks. The collection of sequences where pupils use OTTs comes from 31 hours of video-recorded data from four…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Bui, Gavin; Luo, Xueya – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2021
Prior research demonstrates that primary and secondary school teachers often find teaching young learners to write in a second language a slow and effortful process. Moreover, students in this age range lack the motivation to write. Therefore, it is important to explore the EFL writing pedagogy suitable for young learners. The present study…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Writing (Composition), Teaching Methods
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Brinkmann, Lisa Marie; Duarte, Joana; Melo-Pfeifer, Sílvia – TESL Canada Journal, 2022
This article investigates how linguistic landscapes (LLs) can foster critical thinking about linguistic power relations and tensions in multilingual areas by acting as stimuli to reflect on the ethnolinguistic vitality of languages in a given region. We examine the pedagogical use of LLs as resources for the implementation of plurilingual…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Multilingualism, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
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Aydeniz, Mehmet; Bilican, Kader – Journal of Education in Science, Environment and Health, 2016
The purpose of this study was to explore the effect of sustained practice with argumentation on the quality of students' written arguments. Participants consisted of 37 students; 22 males and 15 females enrolled in a 6th grade middle school classroom. Students completed six argumentation tasks but only four of them were considered for data…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Persuasive Discourse, Teaching Methods, Writing (Composition)
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Rusk, Fredrik; Pörn, Michaela; Sahlström, Fritjof – Classroom Discourse, 2016
Using the first language (L1) to solve problems in understanding the second language (L2) may be beneficial for L2 learning. However, the overuse of L1 may deprive L2 learners of exposure to the L2. It appears that the question is not whether to use L1 or L2; it is when and how each language can be used to support L2 learning. This study focuses…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Epistemology, Native Language, Comprehension
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Seah, Lay Hoon; Clarke, David; Hart, Christina – International Journal of Science Education, 2015
This study examines how a class of Grade 7 students employed linguistic resources to explain density differences. Drawing from the same data-set as a previous study by, we take a language perspective to investigate the challenges students face in learning the concept of density. Our study thus complements previous research on learning about…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Middle School Students, Scientific Concepts, Language Usage
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Dobbs, Christina L.; Kearns, Devin – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2016
Understanding academic vocabulary is essential to student success in school. Use of academic vocabulary words in writing is considered one of the strongest measures of how well a reader understands a given word. In theory, willingness to use academic vocabulary in writing indicates the complexity of acquiring representations of the word's…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Academic Discourse, Writing (Composition), Essays
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Dj, Muhammad Zuhri; Sukarnianti – Dinamika Ilmu, 2015
This research discusses about using hypnoteaching strategy to improve students' writing ability. The objective of this research is to find out hypnoteaching strategy in improving students' writing ability. The method used in this research was pre-experimental method by using one groups' pretest-posttest design. The group was given pretest and…
Descriptors: Hypnosis, Teaching Methods, Writing Skills, Pretests Posttests
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Mills, Daniel; Kennedy, Olivia – JALT CALL Journal, 2013
Despite having studied English for some 33 months, the students at the private junior high school in Japan described in this paper had never before been asked to write original compositions in the language. The researchers undertook a quasi-experimental pilot study in which the 156 (n= 156) participants were each asked to write four compositions,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Junior High School Students, Writing Assignments
Pu, Jiang – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The definition of literacy is constantly changing and expanding. A sociocultural view of Literacy considers literacy to be multiple, multimodal, and multilingual as situated in and across the social and cultural contexts. As technology, new media and social network has reformed many aspects of writing, they provide ELLs (English language learners)…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Writing Instruction, Technology Uses in Education, English Language Learners
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Jaramillo Urrutia, Lorena; Medina Gutiérrez, Ana Stella – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2011
Today it is necessary to approach environmental topics with students in an interdisciplinary manner to mitigate the environmental damages that the Earth is suffering. In this paper we report an action-research and innovation study aimed at sensitizing students with respect to the care and preservation of the environment through the writing of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Conservation (Environment), Student Motivation, Knowledge Level
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Gannon, Susanne – English in Australia, 2009
A critical/creative paradigm in contemporary English carries with it an imperative that students should be given opportunities for deep engagement with texts relevant to what matters in their everyday lives. In this paper, I argue that the materiality of everyday life includes the physical and geographic places where we live. When students live in…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Educational Opportunities, Pragmatics, Second Languages
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