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Ian Cushing – Language and Education, 2024
Tiered vocabulary is a pervasive concept in academic scholarship, education policy, and schools. It involves placing individual words into hierarchically arranged tiers, based on their apparent simplicity, sophistication, utility, and complexity, with these categorisations used to determine which words carry value in the classroom. In this article…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Vocabulary Development, Word Frequency, Language Usage
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Bunch, George C.; Martin, Daisy – Language and Education, 2021
A still-widespread perspective on "academic language" is that the most important dimension of language used for academic purposes is the extent to which its linguistic features contrast with "everyday language" used outside of school. But focusing on the unique linguistic features of written academic texts ignores the important…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Language Usage, Elementary Secondary Education, Literacy
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García, Ofelia; Solorza, Cristian R. – Language and Education, 2021
Most U.S. educational reforms have narrowly focused on how to improve the ways in which students use language, and most specifically English. But in the last two decades, it is something called "academic language" that has permeated all education discourse. Here we discuss the development of the construct of academic language and the…
Descriptors: Academic Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Hispanic American Students
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Jensen, Bryant; Valdés, Guadalupe – Language and Education, 2021
We identify contributions in this special issue in terms of two essential ways of threading systemic change for language equity in schools: theories/concepts from school governance down to classroom practice, and values/morals from practical realities in classrooms up. We characterize 'language equity' as a sense of belonging and meaningful…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Educational Change, Minority Group Students, Governance
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De Backer, Fauve; Van Avermaet, Piet; Slembrouck, Stef – Language and Education, 2017
Across Europe we can observe the reinforcement of monolingual education policies, despite increasing multilingualism. Recent research has shown that the emphasis is on language proficiency in the socially dominant language. This is viewed as the key to educational success. The use of other languages or linguistic repertoires is not valued in…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Educational Policy, Language Proficiency, Monolingualism
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Whaley, Lindsay J. – Language and Education, 2011
The success of programs that are focused on revitalizing an endangered language depends on careful implementation. This paper examines four common mistakes that are made when linguists and anthropologists get involved with documenting endangered languages or participating in revitalization efforts: a failure to appreciate the complexity of the…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Language Research, Anthropology, Linguistics
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Simpson, James; Cooke, Melanie – Language and Education, 2010
This article is about progression in further and higher education for migrants to the United Kingdom who are users of non-standard varieties of English. The focus is on the struggles of Tobi, a first-generation migrant Nigerian student. Tobi's story describes the local barriers he must navigate in order to gain access to the courses he wishes to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Social Class, Ideology, Foreign Countries
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Ioannidou, Elena – Language and Education, 2009
This paper examines the tensions created in a Greek Cypriot primary classroom between the legitimate variety of the school, Standard Modern Greek, and the home variety of the students, the Greek Cypriot Dialect. Ethnographic data are presented to indicate that language use in the classroom, contrary to what language policy-makers argue, is…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Dialects, Language Usage, Ethnography
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Hornberger, Nancy H. – Language and Education, 1994
A framework for language planning categorizes 22 language planning goals in terms of the intersections between 3 types (status, corpus, and acquisition) and 2 approaches (policy and cultivation) of language planning. The model helps literacy developers to answer the question of which literacies to develop for what purpose. (Contains 44…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Language Usage, Literacy, Models
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Gu, Peter Yongqi; Hu, Guangwei; Zhang, Lawrence Jun – Language and Education, 2005
To date, very few empirical studies can be found on primary, especially lower primary school pupils' use of language learner strategies. The few studies that exist often employ research techniques such as questionnaires and think-aloud protocols as studies on adults do. However, we know very little about whether the research methods commonly used…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Research Methodology, Language Usage
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Street, Brian V. – Language and Education, 1994
Addresses problems that arise when literacy education is brought from national and international centers to people whose identity is with local languages and literacies. Local literacies are defined with respect to different languages and writing systems, invented local literacies, and vernacular literacies. (Contains 33 references.) (Author)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Language Standardization, Language Usage
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Chami-Sather, Grece; Kretschmer, Richard R., Jr. – Language and Education, 2005
This research describes and analyses the type of verbal discourse and interactions among the children in a group-solving situation. Two groups of five children ages 6, 7 and 8, from two different cultures, were observed: one at an English-speaking summer camp in Beirut, Lebanon, and another at a parallel site, a neighbourhood group in Kentucky, in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Verbal Communication, Children, Discourse Analysis
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Nero, Shondel J. – Language and Education, 2005
The multifaceted ways in which English Language Learners (ELLs) engage in "acts of identity" (Le Page & Tabouret-Keller, 1985) through their language use have created new challenges for ESL pedagogy. Heterogeneous identities have called into question the native speaker construct and the assumed links between ethnicity and language expertise.…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction