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Alexandre Cavalcante; Antoinette Gagné; Emmanuelle Le Pichon-Vorstman – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2024
In this paper, we report on data from 40 middle and secondary school mathematics teachers and teacher candidates as they begin to articulate the intersection of language-friendly pedagogy, mathematics teaching, and a multilingual technological tool by way of a two-hour introductory workshop. We use an Anthropological Theory of the Didactic which…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Teachers, Multilingualism, Teacher Attitudes
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Cotterill, Simon – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2020
Unlike other groups of international students, Chinese speakers' use of English names while studying in English is an established norm. Relatively little discussion of the practice has taken place within recent literature, and less attention still has been paid to the minority of Chinese-speaking students who do not adopt English names. The choice…
Descriptors: Chinese, Native Language, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Curdt-Christiansen, Xiao Lan; Wang, Weihong – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2018
As a linguistically heterogeneous nation, China has 290 languages and nearly 2000 distinct "fangyans" (dialects or subdialects) with "Putonghua" as the national language. These languages and language varieties are hierarchically ranked, based on their wider communicative and socioeconomic values. This paper reports on how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Decision Making, Language Attitudes, Mandarin Chinese