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Sánchez Ramos, María Del Mar; Vigier Moreno, Francisco J. – Research-publishing.net, 2016
As stated by Valero-Garcés (2006, p. 38), the new scenario including public service providers and users who are not fluent in the language used by the former has opened up new ways of linguistic and cultural mediation in current multicultural and multilingual societies. As a consequence, there is an ever increasing need for translators and…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Public Service, Second Language Learning, Court Litigation
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Kettle, Margaret – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2011
This paper joins growing interest in the concept of practice, and uses it to reconceptualise international student engagement with the demands of study at an Australian university. Practice foregrounds institutional structures and student agency and brings together psychologically- and socially-oriented perspectives on international student…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Education Courses, Teaching Methods, Models
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Paugh, Patricia; Robinson, Elizabeth – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2011
The practice of a critical pedagogy was the impetus for our involvement in an urban in-district master's program with a mission that included developing a "critical praxis" for all participants. Early on we were challenged to rethink our stance as "critical educators" when teachers resisted what we intended to be "empowering" course practices,…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Masters Programs, Discourse Analysis, Teacher Researchers