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Jennifer Burton; Wales Wong; Shakina Rajendram – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2024
This study brings together translanguaging and critical multilingual language awareness (CMLA) (García, 2015, 2017) to examine how teacher candidates (TCs) prepare to support multilingual learners in elementary classrooms. Data was drawn from four TCs in a teacher education course on supporting multilingual learners in Ontario, Canada. Research…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Language Usage, Knowledge Level, Preservice Teachers
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Nina Woll; Pierre-Luc Paquet; Isabelle Wouters – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
While studies have shown that additional language (Lx) learners build on knowledge of previously acquired languages (Ringbom 2007), the natural interaction between languages is rarely exploited in Lx classrooms. This study explores the nature of metalinguistic reflections and crosslinguistic connections during plurilingual consciousness-raising…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Metalinguistics, German, Second Language Learning
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Liu, Shimeng; Takeuchi, Miwa Aoki – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2023
When language is defined narrowly in mathematics classrooms, racially and linguistically minoritized students in classrooms could be systematically positioned as "learners of deficiency." Recent scholarship calls for expanding the notion of language to emphasize embodied expression of mathematical ideas. Taking a critical perspective to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction, Multilingualism, Minority Group Students
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Fletcher, Tim; Chróinín, Déirdre Ní; O'Sullivan, Mary; Beni, Stephanie – European Physical Education Review, 2020
The purpose of this research was to examine pre-service teachers' articulation of their learning through the development of a shared professional language of teaching practice focused on meaningful physical education. Qualitative data gathered from 90 pre-service teachers over four years in Canada and Ireland were analysed. Framed by a didactical…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Teaching Methods, Student Attitudes
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Shulist, Sarah; Pedri-Spade, Celeste – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2022
This article examines the role that Indigenous language learning and use can play in the establishment of false or spurious claims to Indigeneity. These acts of "race shifting" are situated within the political discourse of "Truth and Reconciliation" and serve to enable settlers to situate themselves in positions where, both…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Land Settlement, Conflict Resolution, American Indian Languages
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Armstrong, Denise; Tuters, Stephanie; Ratkovic, Snežana – Journal of School Leadership, 2020
Metaphors are deeply embedded in educational discourse, yet few studies examine how educators use these linguistic devices to conceptualize, articulate, and make sense of their professional practice. This article examines the metaphors that 38 Canadian and American school leaders used to describe how they accomplished their social justice work in…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Teaching Methods, Social Justice, Leadership Responsibility
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Prete, Tiffany D. – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2021
The colonisation of the Indigenous Peoples of Canada, has led to the subjugation of Indigenous knowledges and the structuring of an education system that excludes the use of Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and doing. This paper makes space for and privileges Siksikaitsitapi (Blackfoot Confederacy) human development theory and articulates the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Knowledge, Canada Natives
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Ivan Lasan – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
This study explores English-dominant speakers' and English learners' knowledge of (in)formal stylistic variants, their choice of (in)formal styles in relation to social context, their preferences in the use of select (in)formal stylistic variants, and their beliefs about the influence of their other languages. Ten English-dominant undergraduates…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Language Dominance, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Pecaski McLennan, Deanna – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2022
The author reflects on using the language of mathematics to explore the many different cultures represented in their kindergarten class population. A student demonstrating counting in Mandarin became the catalyst for a month-long inquiry into researching how numbers look and sound in dozens of different languages. Throughout this experience,…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Language Usage, Teaching Methods, Mandarin Chinese
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Affef Ghai; Sharif Alghazo – Open Education Studies, 2024
This corpus-based study explores the expression of gratitude in the acknowledgement section of doctoral dissertations in both English and Arabic. The objective is to analyse how gratitude in academic discourse is structured in these languages and to explore any differences related to gender. The study examines 80 dissertations (40 in English and…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Doctoral Dissertations, Arabic, English
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Marshall, Steve – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2020
I analyze data from a one-year study of plurilingualism across the disciplines in Canadian higher education. I focus on how instructors in different disciplines understand their students' plurilingual practices and how they respond pedagogically to teaching in linguistically diverse classes. I employ the theoretical lenses of plurilingualism and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Student Diversity
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Dressler, Roswita; Mueller, Katherine – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2022
Fostering target language use in second language classrooms is a persistent challenge for teachers. A lack of specific guidelines in curriculum documents, inexperience with a wide variety of pedagogical approaches, and the tendency to default to English have been documented as reasons behind this challenge. Strategies from the neurolinguistic…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Language Usage, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Youran Lin; Fangfang Li; Karen E. Pollock – Cogent Education, 2024
Despite an increasing interest in pronunciation instruction in English as a majority language or international "lingua franca," less is known about pronunciation learning in non-English minority languages, especially among child learners. Bilingual education programs provide a unique context to address this research gap, as they involve…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Education Programs, Elementary School Teachers
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Angelica Galante; John Wayne N. Dela Cruz – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2024
Plurilingualism is an inclusive language teaching approach to sustain multilingual societies, but there is little investigation on teacher candidates' (TCs) beliefs and challenges before and after its implementation. This interpretive qualitative study introduced plurilingualism in teacher education at a Canadian university. Sixteen TCs…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Zanazanian, Paul; Popa, Nathalie – LEARNing Landscapes, 2018
This article introduces Jörn Rüsen's concept of narrative competence as a useful pedagogical framework for operationalizing a remedial narrative tool designed to help make room for Quebec's English-speaking minority in the teaching of school history. Developed through empirical research and representing a schema-like narrative structure, the…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Personal Narratives, English, Language Minorities
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