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Abas, Suriati; Bamanger, Ebrahim; Gashan, Amani K.; Guler, Aslihan – Journal of Children's Literature, 2021
The rise in hate crimes toward immigrants across communities (Potok, 2017) has led to a focus on children's literature with immigration themes for opening up conversations in classrooms (Rodriguez & Braden, 2018). Because children's knowledge about people and the communities they live in is informed by the media, portrayals of immigrants'…
Descriptors: Muslims, Immigrants, Teaching Methods, Childrens Literature
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Burns, Jennifer – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
This article investigates what kind of multilingual operations are carried out as migrant and transnational creative writers deploy in their fictions in Italian (often an acquired language) the languages which they hold in their personal repertoires. Exploring first the linguistic, political and cultural implications of what Algerian author, Amara…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Italian, Code Switching (Language), Intercultural Communication
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Khan, Tania Ali – English Language Teaching, 2020
Pakistani English is a variety of English language concerning Sentence structure, Morphology, Phonology, Spelling, and Vocabulary. The one semantic element, which makes the investigation of Pakistani English additionally fascinating is the Vocabulary. Pakistani English uses many loan words from Urdu language and other local dialects, which have…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Tarrayo, Veronico N. – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2018
This paper argues that in interpreting literary pieces, language and literature should team up for their mutual benefit. Based on this assumption, this study explores the interface between language and literature by examining along stylistic lines the flash fiction piece "When It's A Grey November In Your Soul" written by Cristina…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Literature, Language Styles, Fiction
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Templer, Bill – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2017
The article seeks to contribute to working-class and social justice pedagogy by developing concrete angles on teaching/exploring some of the (a) short fiction, (b) journalistic-photographic work and (c) sociography of poverty by the Danish-born US immigrant, muckraker (http://goo.gl/6WeGtM) and social reformer Jacob A. Riis (1849-1914,…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Teaching Methods, Immigrants, Poverty
Carey, Britany, Ed.; Sasayama, Shoko, Ed. – National Foreign Language Resource Center at University of Hawaii, 2011
The theme of this year's conference was "Check Your Vision for the Future" with papers highlighting emerging changes in language use and literature, as well as suggestions for improving language teaching and maintenance in the future. The plenary speech was given by Dr. Katie Drager, followed by student presentations. Following a preface…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Sex Stereotypes, Japanese