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Direct linkKarlsson, Annika; Nygård Larsson, Pia; Jakobsson, Anders – International Journal of Science Education, 2019
This study describes multilingual students' authentic use of their first and second languages in a "translanguaging science classroom," from a sociocultural perspective. The study is ethnographic, and has followed some lessons each month in a translanguaging science classroom at a primary school for three years. The observed lessons were…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Science Instruction, Classroom Communication
Lantz-Andersson, Annika; Vigmo, Sylvi; Bowen, Rhonwen – Learning, Media and Technology, 2016
This case study explores how Swedish upper secondary students communicate in English as part of second language learning, in a blog shared with Thai students. Grounded in a sociocultural perspective on learning, the notions of Goffman's "frame shifting" and Bakhtin's concept of "carnival" are employed to analyse two specific…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Secondary School Students, English (Second Language)
Afdal, Geir – British Journal of Religious Education, 2015
This article is a contribution to the discussion of learning processes in religious education (RE) classrooms. Sociocultural theories of learning, understood here as tool-mediated processes, are used in an analysis of three RE classroom conversations. The analysis focuses on the language tools that are used in conversations; how the tools mediate;…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Educational Practices, Sociocultural Patterns, Learning Theories
Gynne, Annaliina; Bagga-Gupta, Sangeeta – Language and Education, 2015
The study presented in this paper focuses on young people's languaging, or ways-with-being-with-words, including literacies, in everyday practices that stretch across formal and informal learning spaces. Taking sociocultural and ethnographic points of departure, the aim of the study is to investigate aspects of young people's situated and…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Sociocultural Patterns, Multiple Literacies, Academic Discourse
Oskaar, Els – 1982
This paper examines the socio-cultural problems affecting new immigrants. The first part presents a person-centered ecological theoretical framework with two points of departure: the individual in his/her biological cognitive and socio-cultural sphere, and the person's communicative behavior. The data is drawn largely from a 1967-1979 project in…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Bilingualism, Culture Contact, Immigrants
Download full textMcConnell, Grant D., Ed.; Gendron, Jean-Denis, Ed. – 1993
The atlas offers a cartography of language functions, quantitatively measured in vitality rates, for Western Europe. The atlas has three parts: vitality by language; vitality by domain; and vitality by country. Eighty-three minority languages are covered. Domains considered include: global; religion; schools; mass media; administration; courts;…
Descriptors: Courts, Education, Foreign Countries, Geographic Distribution
