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Fiona Smythe – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Inclusive schooling practices that support immigrant students with low language-of-schooling proficiency to actively participate in learning within mainstream contexts is crucial during the newly-arrived phase. The concept of reciprocal integration and its more recent evolution through the inclusive education movement, reframes school-community…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Barriers, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries
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Ankawi, Ayman – English Language Teaching, 2022
Education outcomes for L2 students in academic preparation programs, undergraduate studies, and graduate work are directly influenced by the learning and use of academic vocabulary. Among 15 Saudi graduate students studying in New Zealand, this study investigated at their perspectives with academic vocabulary learning. Students in Saudi Arabia who…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Foreign Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Karaka-Clarke, Te Hurinui Renata; Macfarlane, Angus; Fletcher, Jo – Waikato Journal of Education, 2023
Embedding the use of technology for authentic social interactions with L2 teaching and learning needs to be supported by effective pedagogical practices. This article explores how technology can support the learning of te reo Maori in New Zealand. Thirteen kaiako (teachers) from a variety of teaching and learning backgrounds and experiences, and…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Jenny Field; Celine Kearney – Educational Linguistics, 2021
New Zealand has expanded its refugee resettlement programme. Government policy changes, announced in 2018, meant the refugee quota which has been 750 for about 30 years would increase to 1500 people (Immigration New Zealand, Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment, New Zealand immigration. Immigration Factsheets: Refugees and Asylum…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Land Settlement, Refugees, Adult Literacy
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Wu, Shaoqun; Fitzgerald, Alannah; Yu, Alex; Witten, Ian – International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, 2019
Learning collocations is one of the most challenging aspects of language learning as there are literally hundreds of thousands of possibilities for combining words. Corpus consultation with concordancers has been recognized in the literature as an established way for language learners to study and explore collocations at their own pace and in…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Computational Linguistics, Indexes, English (Second Language)
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Smythe, Fiona – New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies, 2020
Since 2016, educational environments all over the world are being precipitated towards change and adaptation, in response to mass global immigration and increasing numbers of newly-arrived plurilingual children in schools. France and New Zealand provide two examples of populations that are highly linguistically diverse, yet take differing…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Cross Cultural Studies, Immigration, Multilingualism
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Tabata-Sandom, Mitsue – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2020
The current study examines the cognition of reading instruction held by teachers of Japanese as a second or foreign language (L2 Japanese) working mainly in Japan, New Zealand, and the US. The study reports findings obtained from two data collection methods: interviews and metaphor elicitation contained in a questionnaire. The researcher…
Descriptors: Schemata (Cognition), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Japanese
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Leier, Vera; Gruber, Alice – JALT CALL Journal, 2021
This paper reports on a study investigating the use of digital devices by language students at universities in New Zealand, Sweden and Germany. The study also examines the use of social media for learning a foreign language in an institutional context, using survey results from language students in the three countries. Based on an online survey…
Descriptors: International Cooperation, Technology Uses in Education, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning
Smaill, Esther; Darr, Charles – New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 2020
In February 2020, the Ministry of Education asked the New Zealand Council for Educational Research (NZCER) to examine the curriculum-levelling construct that sits at the heart of The New Zealand Curriculum (Ministry of Education, 2007). A key goal of the research was to investigate, whether-- and if so, how--the construct helps (or hinders)…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Decision Making, Educational Planning, Program Development
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Fickel, Letitia Hochstrasser; Henderson, Christine; Price, Gaylene – Educational Research, 2017
Background: Given the persistent gap among majority and minority students in international measures of student outcomes, there is growing attention and research focused on teacher knowledge, learning and professional development. Culturally responsive practice has been posited as one way to ameliorate disparities in outcomes. Proponents of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Self Concept, Culturally Relevant Education, Minority Group Students
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Ellis, Rod – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2012
The author has worked as a language teacher, teacher educator, and second language acquisition (SLA) researcher for over forty years. During this time grammar has figured largely in his thinking, in part because it has traditionally been so central to language pedagogy and in part because he became fascinated with how the human mind grapples with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Grammar, Autobiographies
Read, John – 1987
While interest in second language vocabulary knowledge has increased, vocabulary testing remains largely confined to the quantitative measurement of discrete items. More qualitative measures are needed to assess how well particular words are known. Research has characterized word knowledge in two ways: as a set of components or aspects, and as an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Interviews, Language Tests
Higher Colleges of Technology, Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates). – 2000
This document contains a total of 57 welcoming speeches, theme addresses, seminar and workshop papers, and poster sessions that were presented at a conference on technological education and national development. The papers explore the ways technology and technological advances have both necessitated and enabled changes in the way education is…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Articulation (Education)