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Karimi-Aghdam, Saeed – Online Submission, 2020
James P. Lantolf is George and Jane Greer Professor Emeritus of Language Acquisition and Applied Linguistics and former director of the Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research at the Pennsylvania State University, USA. He is currently Adjunct Professor of Applied Linguistics in the same academic unit at Xi'an Jiaotong…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Sociocultural Patterns, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Charney, Igal; Palgi, Michal – Journal of Rural Studies, 2013
This paper examines the attempts made by the renewing kibbutzim to maintain their way of life as much as possible through the adjustment of their gating mechanisms. In this type of a rural gated community, sorting procedures and admittance criteria of nonmembers are the most notable elements. Background material and interviews with informants at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Neoliberalism, Jews, Rural Areas
Feryok, Anne – Modern Language Journal, 2012
This article takes a broadly sociocultural perspective on the development of an Armenian English as a foreign language (EFL) teacher. It focuses on how experiences and actions outside the professional development classroom influence language teacher agency. The paper is framed within activity theory and specifically draws on Galperin's orienting…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Language Teachers, Professional Development, Teacher Educators
Turvey, Keith – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2012
This paper captures and characterises the interplay between a group of student teachers' narratives of social network practice and their emergent professional practice with technologies. Teachers on an Initial Teacher Education programme in the UK spent a semester studying a module that synthesised university-based lectures with a professional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Handheld Devices, Student Teachers, Social Networks
Naraian, Srikala – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2011
The successful participation of students with disabilities in a general education classroom is generally presumed to be contingent on the creation of classroom communities that can nurture the qualities of equity and care and where different forms of diversity are valued. However, there has been less scholarship that documents the production of…
Descriptors: Caring, Sociocultural Patterns, Multiple Disabilities, Ethnography
Hedges, Helen – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2011
New Zealand's early childhood curriculum, "Te Whariki", has two learning outcomes, dispositions and working theories. While a sociocultural perspective of dispositions has received significant attention in research and teaching, "working theories" as a concept has remained somewhat nebulous. This paper describes ways teachers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intuition, Teaching Methods, Sociocultural Patterns
Black, Laura – International Journal of Educational Research, 2007
This paper illustrates how classroom discourse demands a multi-layered analysis. The first analysis focuses on classroom discourse and provides a picture of pupil participation in teacher-pupil interactions: who is inducted into discourse and who is not. However, this local micro-analysis does not afford interpretation at the level of the…
Descriptors: Social Class, Discourse Analysis, Teacher Attitudes, Models
Hallden, Ola; Haglund, Liza; Stromdahl, Helge – Educational Psychologist, 2007
Research within a constructivist approach often relies on interview data, which are used to reveal beliefs held by the interviewee or to expose conceptions or conceptual structures that are supposed to reside within the interviewee. From a sociocultural perspective, severe criticism has been leveled against the neglect of the problems of inferring…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Inferences, Concept Formation, Interviews
Lattuca, Lisa R. – Journal of Higher Education, 2002
Sociocultural theories of learning provide an analytical lens for exploring faculty work. By conceptualizing faculty work as a learning process that is both cognitive and social, sociocultural perspectives highlight the ways in which faculty learning and work are enabled and shaped by the contexts in which they occur, but also how learning and…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, College Faculty, Cognitive Processes, Context Effect
Mendick, Heather – Gender and Education, 2005
This paper draws on a research study into why more boys than girls choose to study mathematics. My starting point is that only four of the 43 young participants, and all of them male, self-identified as "good at maths". By reading these interviews as narratives of self, I explore the "identity work" accomplished within their talk and within the…
Descriptors: Popular Culture, Gender Differences, Mathematics, Stereotypes
Fargeot-Mauche, Marie-Claude – Francais dans le Monde, 1984
A technique for illustrating to foreign language students how diversity can exist within a given culture uses taped interviews on a specific topic with different individuals. Students have a chance to analyze sociocultural patterns and make linguistic comparisons and generalizations. (MSE)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Education, Cultural Pluralism

Baquedano-Lopez, Patricia – Issues in Applied Linguistics, 1995
Discusses an interview focusing on important topics relevant to sociolinguistics and language minorities. Points out that one topic, ethnicity, is among many of the urban phenomena central to the study of linguistics as well as ethnic minorities and that a discussion of sociolinguistics and language minorities entails discussion of racism,…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Ethnic Groups, Interviews, Language Attitudes

Oyetade, Solomon O. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1996
Discusses a study on bilingualism and factors of ethnic identity in Saare/Tsaragi, a border area in Nigeria where two languages are used regularly. Interviews elicited information on language ability and use, language attitudes, and interethnic relations. Results indicate similar patterns between groups of bilingual ability and attitudes but…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Bilingualism, Demography, Economic Factors

Lussier, Denise; Masse, Carole – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1995
Reports on the speech difficulties of four French immersion anglophone students participating in a three-month interlinguistic exchange. Each student was interviewed three times, and the transcripts were analyzed for linguistic, sociolinguistic, and sociocultural errors in oral French and for performance evaluation by the students. (51 references)…
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), Foreign Countries, French, Immersion Programs
Oregon Council for the Social Studies, Salem. – 1991
A task force was appointed by the Oregon Council for the Social Studies (OCSS) to study preschool/kindergarten through grade 3 social studies in Oregon and to make recommendations as to what OCSS could do to help improve social studies education. This report contains the findings and recommendations of the task force. A background statement based…
Descriptors: Demography, Early Childhood Education, Educational Objectives, Grade 1
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