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Bojsen, Heidi, Ed.; Daryai-Hansen, Petra, Ed.; Holmen, Anne, Ed.; Risager, Karen, Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2023
Using data from multilingual settings in universities and adjacent learning contexts in East Asia, North Africa, Central and North America and Europe, this book provides examples of the heuristic value of translanguaging and epistemological decentring. Despite this and other theoretical and empirical work, and ever stronger calls for the inclusion…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Native Language
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Chaudhuri, Tushar; Lopez-Ozieblo, Renia; Martinez, Valérie – SpringerBriefs in Education, 2022
This book reports on and analyses the Integrated Language Learning & Social Awareness Project, a unique project in the field of Foreign Language Learning and Telecollaboration till now in the world. It takes the existing research on telecollaborative learning, content and language integrated learning and e-learning and combines them into one…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Interpersonal Competence, Metacognition
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McLoughlin, Eilish, Ed.; Finlayson, Odilla E., Ed.; Erduran, Sibel, Ed.; Childs, Peter E., Ed. – Contributions from Science Education Research, 2019
This edited volume presents innovative current research in the field of Science Education. The chapter's deal with a wide variety of topics and research approaches, conducted in a range of contexts and settings. Together they make a strong contribution to knowledge on science teaching and learning. The book consists of selected presentations from…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Science Education, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes
OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2011
This report explores the factors and conditions that could help more students succeed at school despite challenging socio-economic backgrounds. It does this by studying resilient students and what sets them apart from their less successful peers. Understanding how educational systems can support disadvantaged students and help them "beat the…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Academic Achievement, Disadvantaged Youth, Success
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara, Ed. – 1976
Speech play reflects a degree of selectivity and creativity beyond ordinary language use. Consistent with the approach of ethnography, each culture may have its own definition of speech play. Articles collected in this volume investigate speech play as language structure--"Play Languages: Implications for (Socio) Linguistics,""Secret Play…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Interrelationships, Drama, Ethnology
Goldstein, Bernice Z.; Tamura, Kyoko – 1975
This is a comparative analysis of the Japanese and American languages and cultures. The following are discussed: verbs, kinship terms, category terms, apologies and thanks, honorifics and postpositional particles, and levels of usage. A final section relates conclusions about linguistic patterns to culture patterns. (AM)
Descriptors: American Culture, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Cross Cultural Studies