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Mediating Digital Screens with Very Young Emerging Bilinguals
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Meskill, Carla; Sadykova, Gulnara; Kayumova, Albina – Bilingual Research Journal, 2020
There is vast potential for digital screens to support early bilingualism. For the most part, however, young children require human mediation with what is generated by screens in order for language and pre-literacy learning to occur. What does that mediation look like when multimodal elements are designed to support children's language and culture…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Language Acquisition, Russian, Second Language Learning
A Multicultural Fairy Tale for Teacher Educators
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Robinson, Scott – Online Submission, 2014
The purpose of this narrative research is to examine cultural diversity among teacher candidates. A secondary purpose is to offer a pedagogical tool for teacher educators to use with their teacher candidates to help them develop a critical consciousness in their encounters with diverse students and their reflections on their own cultural…
Descriptors: Fairy Tales, Teacher Educators, Social Justice, Equal Education
Improvement of Off-Task Behavior of Elementary and High School Students through the Use of Cooperative Learning Strategies
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Pate-Clevenger, Rebecca; Dusing, Jennifer; Houck, Phyllis; Zuber, John – Online Submission, 2008
This Action Research Project Report was conducted at one elementary school and two different high schools from August 20, 2007 to December 14, 2007. The purpose of this research was to decrease student off-task behavior in the classroom. There were four teacher researchers and 94 students at the beginning of the research, but during the action…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Intervention, Learning Activities, Social Behavior
The Preparations for Charting Reader Responses in the "Folktale Project." Folktale: A Cross-Cultural Interdisciplinary Study of the Experience of Literature. Paper 13.
Dollerup, Cay; And Others – 1989
This paper briefly reviews the state of the art in reader response research with special reference to the Danish studies in reader responses. The paper then proceeds to a discussion of a number of methodological problems inherent in setting up questions for cross-cultural (and international) studies in general, and for reader response studies in…
Descriptors: Adults, Cross Cultural Studies, Folk Culture, Foreign Countries
The Construction and Experimental, Cross-National Testing of the First Version of the Questionnaire on the Readers' Backgrounds in the Folktale Project. Folktale: A Cross-Cultural, Interdisciplinary Study of the Experience of Literature. Paper 5.
Dollerup, Cay; And Others – 1987
This paper, the fifth of seven, part of an interdisciplinary project on the context of reading and reading research that explores similarities and dissimilarities in the response to literature in readers from different cultures, describes the methods used for the construction of a questionnaire for readers' social, educational, financial, and…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Folk Culture, Foreign Countries, Interdisciplinary Approach
Telling, Writing and Reading Number Tales in ASL and English Academic Languages: Acquisition and Maintenance of Mathematical Word Problem Solving Skills
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Zernovoj, Alexander – Online Submission, 2005
One of the major goals in deaf education is to teach deaf and hard of hearing students the tools and strategies to solve mathematical word problems. A mathematical word problem curriculum was designed and implemented based on telling, reading and writing number tales in American Sign Language (ASL) and English. The learning experiences helped…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Partial Hearing, Tales, Deafness