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Richard Beach – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2025
Purpose: This paper posits the need for English language arts (ELA) teachers to foster students' use of languaging about their relations with ecosystems and peers, leading to their engaging in collective action to critique and transform status-quo systems impacting the climate crisis. Design/methodology/approach: This paper reviews the current…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Criticism, Language Usage, Native Language
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King Miller, Beverly A. – Multicultural Perspectives, 2020
This is an autoethnographic reflection of the process of navigating two cultural spaces characterizing the work of implementing a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) camp for English language learners in the country of Panama. There are three themes that are addressed: (1) the importance of gatekeepers, (2) the importance of…
Descriptors: Ethnography, STEM Education, Program Implementation, Researchers
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Douglas, Dan – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2014
In 2003 the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) strengthened the provisions that English be made available for international radiotelephony communication. ICAO also developed standards for English proficiency for international pilots and air traffic controllers. However, these standards are applied variably from country to country and…
Descriptors: Vocational English (Second Language), Aviation Education, Intercultural Communication, English (Second Language)
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Emery, Henry John – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2014
The proceedings of the first Language Testing Forum in 1980 were published in "ELT Documents 111: Issues in Language Testing" (Alderson & Hughes, 1981). Discussants at the 1980 Forum raised a number questions on Language for Specific Purposes (LSP) testing relating, notably, to test specificity, test content, the relationship between…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Aviation Education, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Levin, Jesse; Manship, Karen; Chambers, Jay; Johnson, Jerry; Blankenship, Charles – Regional Educational Laboratory West, 2011
This report presents the first detailed comparison of resource allocation between rural and nonrural districts in the West Region. Three regional characteristics often associated with rural districts were chosen for the analysis: district enrollment, student population density within a district (students per square mile), and drive time from the…
Descriptors: Resource Allocation, Rural Schools, Urban Schools, Suburban Schools
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Cookson, Simon – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2009
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) is currently implementing a program to improve the language proficiency of pilots and air traffic controllers worldwide. In justifying the program, ICAO has cited a number of airline accidents that were at least partly caused by language factors. Two accidents cited by ICAO are analysed in this…
Descriptors: Accidents, Linguistics, Interference (Language), Code Switching (Language)