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Khan, Kamran – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2022
This article will focus on inequalities for migrants which are (re)produced by the promise of equality through citizenship and settlement test regimes. I theorize the links between language and borders by drawing on scholarship on security before offering an analysis of language border proliferation. Drawing on other studies and my own work, I…
Descriptors: National Security, Citizenship, Immigrants, Social Differences
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Aburizaizah, Saeed Jameel – Journal of Education and Learning, 2021
For many justifications, the collection, analysis, and use of educational data are central to the evaluation and improvement of students' progress and learning outcomes. The use of data in educational evaluation and decision making are expected to span all layers--from the institution, teachers, students, and classroom levels, providing a…
Descriptors: Data Use, Decision Making, Progress Monitoring, Learning Analytics
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Takeda, Yuya – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2023
This paper reports on the narrative of Shannon, a Taiwanese Canadian female assistant language teacher (ALT) of the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Programme, one of the world's largest government-sponsored programmes for recruiting English language teachers to teach overseas [Nagatomo (2016). "Identity, gender and teaching English in…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Political Attitudes, Race, Gender Differences
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Bloom, Sam W. – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2021
The current article was inspired by two incongruous phenomena: the perception of the lack of gender sensitivity and inclusiveness in a particular language textbook and the coronavirus disease pandemic. As we went completely remote over the past 2.5 semesters, students were encouraged to address those issues via chat and voice modalities. If there…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Electronic Publishing, Synchronous Communication, Distance Education
Texas Education Agency, 2019
This report provides information on enrollment in the Texas public school system from the 2008-09 through 2018-19 school years, based on data collected through the Texas Student Data System. Enrollment data are provided by grade, race/ethnicity, gender, and economically disadvantaged status, and for special populations and instructional programs.…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Enrollment, Racial Differences, Ethnicity
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Kobayashi, Yoko – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2018
Stimulated by studies on South Korean students' early and later-on study abroad and Japanese companies' practice of hiring monolingual college students, the present literature-based discussion advances the knowledge of commonalities and distinctiveness between the two nations that manifest in either a textbook-case or a non-linear relationship…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Personnel Selection, Social Differences, English (Second Language)
Christine Farrugia; Rajika Bhandari – Institute of International Education, 2015
"Open Doors"® is the only long-standing, comprehensive information resource on international students and scholars in the United States and on American students studying abroad for academic credit. "Open Doors" features graphic displays, data tables, and policy-oriented analyses, and is the essential resource for those…
Descriptors: International Educational Exchange, Foreign Students, Study Abroad, Student Mobility
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Lamb, Martin – Language Teaching, 2017
Motivation is recognized as a vital component in successful second language learning, and has been the subject of intensive research in recent decades. This review focuses on a growing branch of this research effort, that which examines the motivational effects of language teaching. This is pertinent because, despite enhanced mobility and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Motivation, Teaching Methods
Zorba, Mehmet Galip – Online Submission, 2014
Along with language teaching purposes, coursebooks also convey different kinds of cultural and social messages through both written texts and visualization. Therefore, studying coursebooks in terms of such qualities is necessary in foreign language education. In the learning process, visualization plays a pivotal role since visuals cater for…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Textbook Content, Textbook Evaluation, Secondary Education
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Akbari, Ramin; Tajik, Leila – Journal of Moral Education, 2012
The second-language teacher education community has become increasingly interested in the moral dimensions of teaching. Herein ELT practitioners' "moral knowledge base", as a window into their mental lives, has not received the attention it deserves. The present study was conducted to document likely differences between the frequencies of…
Descriptors: Student Problems, Moral Values, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Dykstra, Lisa Dewaard – Modern Language Journal, 2012
This project investigates whether learners of Russian perceive the sociocultural weight of the two personal pronouns for "you", "ty" (informal/intimate) and "vy" (formal/polite) when they listen to native speech. Research on address pronoun use shows it to be an important sociocultural variable and, while there is some general consistency in use,…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Second Language Learning, Video Technology, Native Speakers
Hutchins, Shaun D.; Schmitt, Lisa – Online Submission, 2015
In 2013, the Austin Independent School District began administering a voluntary online exit survey to all professional and administrative employees leaving the district. Responses and respondent characteristics are described for 2014. A separate research brief also was published. [For the research brief, see ED626496.]
Descriptors: Employee Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Administrator Attitudes, Surveys
Andrew, Patricia – Multilingual Matters, 2012
This book explores the social construction of age in the context of EFL in Mexico. It is the first book to address the age factor in SLA from a social perspective. Based on research carried out at a public university in Mexico, it investigates how adults of different ages experience learning a new language and how they enact their age identities…
Descriptors: Social Class, Age, Sociolinguistics, Second Languages
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Tomalin, Marcus – History of Education, 2011
This article reconsiders the way in which the French language was taught in British schools from 1780 to 1830. In particular, it is shown that (contrary to recent claims) the use of recitation- and conversation-based techniques, as opposed to rule-based grammatical learning, persisted well into the 1820s, both in influential pedagogic textbooks…
Descriptors: Textbooks, French, Public Education, Teaching Methods
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Norton, Bonny; Toohey, Kelleen – Language Teaching, 2011
In this review article on identity, language learning, and social change, we argue that contemporary poststructuralist theories of language, identity, and power offer new perspectives on language learning and teaching, and have been of considerable interest in our field. We first review poststructuralist theories of language, subjectivity, and…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Research Methodology, Global Approach, Second Language Learning
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