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Council of the Great City Schools, 2022
In light of the growing development in policy and practice that recognizes the importance of early identification of students at risk for reading difficulties and dyslexia through universal screening, districts will need to carefully consider how this may impact English learners. The purpose of this brief is to: (1) share potential challenges…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Screening Tests, English Language Learners, Barriers
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Ruth Swanwick; Derrick Asomaning; Elettra Casellato; Nathalie Czeke; Daniel Fobi – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2025
This paper discusses methodologies for examining the multilingual language experiences of young deaf children that are sensitive to different cultural contexts of childhood, caregiving and language practices. We argue that in the context of early support, the combined use of situated multilingual and multimodal approaches to examine and assess…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Deafness, Children, Cultural Context
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Sonia Q. Cabell; Tricia A. Zucker – Reading Teacher, 2024
Engaging in frequent, meaningful conversation during the early years of schooling is foundational for children's literacy development. Specifically, developing oral language through daily conversations is essential for language comprehension, and eventually, reading comprehension. In this article, we discuss how teachers can use the…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Language Skills, Oral Language, Preschool Education
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Aine M. Mooney Mahan; Allison Bean; Amy Miller Sonntag – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2024
Communicative competence for people who use augmentative and alternative communication consists of four interrelated domains: linguistic, strategic, social, and operational. Ongoing assessment and progress monitoring within these domains are crucial to (a) providing information to teach targeted skills in a manner contextualized within the…
Descriptors: Children, Students with Disabilities, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Assistive Technology
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Velasco, Ender – TESL Canada Journal, 2022
Using authentic materials in the English as a second language (ESL) classroom can develop students' critical thinking (CT) skills, expose them to more realistic English, and support their motivation. Carrying out text analyses of authentic materials in the ESL classroom can also help students become more critical in their approach to reading.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Thinking Skills, Critical Thinking
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Nguyen, Hanh; Chambers, Wendy; Abbott, Marilyn – TESL Canada Journal, 2022
Digital literacy skills are crucial twenty-first-century skills that are required for the successful use of technology and active engagement in today's world. However, there is a lack of effective resources and guidelines for developing English as a second language (ESL) learners' digital literacy skills. Due to their increasingly important and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Technological Literacy, Skill Development
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Watson Todd, Richard; Rangsarittikun, Ronnakrit – ELT Journal, 2022
The English as a lingua franca (ELF) and languaging research areas have challenged the norm that the goal of ELT is to teach a standardized language. This article reports on a course following the principles of ELF and languaging where the goal is to support students to use and grow their existing repertoire of resources to do things in English.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Seamus Mulryan – Educational Theory, 2024
In this article, Seamus Mulryan contends that dialogue about questions that matter to a body politic require the ethical virtue of courage, which is distinct from the virtue of intellectual humility, and this is of central importance in the education of members of a pluralist society. Mulryan begins with Robert Kunzman's theory of Ethical Dialogue…
Descriptors: Dialogs (Language), Interpersonal Communication, Ethics, Moral Values
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Lee, Crystal; Lew-Williams, Casey – Infant and Child Development, 2023
Children learn words in a social environment, facilitated in part by social cues from caregivers, such as eye-gaze and gesture. A common assumption is that social cues convey either perceptual or social information, depending on the age of the child. In this review of research on word learning and social cues during early childhood, we propose…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development, Cues, Child Language
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Mynard, Jo; Shelton-Strong, Scott J. – Journal for the Psychology of Language Learning, 2022
The field of self-access language learning (SALL), which is an established way of supporting language learners outside the classroom through the provision of resources and spaces, spans more than five decades and is currently in a phase that Mynard (2019a) refers to as the 'basic psychological needs and wellbeing' phase. This is a turning point in…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Personal Autonomy
Palmer, Erik – Educational Leadership, 2022
With so many devices and a plethora of tools to talk to others remotely, oral communication is now overwhelmingly on display like never before, and speaking is becoming more dominant than it used to be. Given this context, it's time for education to stop focusing primarily on reading and writing. Most students don't receive adequate preparation to…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Oral Language, Speech Skills, Language Skills
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Kuhn-Brown, Kerstin – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2021
The creation of pedagogical activities in line with genre-based approaches has substantially shaped world language curriculum design and instruction, as seen in Martin (2002a), Crane (2006), and Maxim (2004); however, an insignificant number of principled guidelines suggests exactly how to achieve these pedagogical goals (Kubota, 2016;…
Descriptors: German, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Linguistics
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Thunder, Kateri; Hattie, John; Almarode, John T.; Fisher, Douglas; Frey, Nancy; Demchak, Alisha – Theory Into Practice, 2023
This article seeks to reframe how early childhood educators think about their role in play by answering these questions: What really matters in play? How should we spend our time and energy planning, implementing, and building our expertise around play in early childhood teaching and learning? The answers reside in 5 big ideas from play research…
Descriptors: Play, Early Childhood Education, Teaching Methods, Language Acquisition
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Roarty, Adam; Hagley, Eric – TESL-EJ, 2021
This paper details methods teachers can utilize in a Virtual Exchange (VE) project to maximize development of intercultural communication and linguistic competence. The International Virtual Exchange Project (IVEProject) was born out of a desire to connect students in monocultural classrooms to multiple cultures. The project was started in Japan,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Mediated Communication, Intercultural Communication, Interpersonal Communication
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Chenghao Wang; Xueyun Li – International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, 2025
D-ID Creative Reality Studio (D-ID) is a platform for creating Artificial Intelligence (AI) presenter (digital human) videos, translating videos, and designing conversational agents. D-ID seamlessly integrates deep-learning face animation technology, large language models (LLMs), natural language processing (NLP), and speech synthesis and…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Design, Video Technology, Animation
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