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Direct linkXiaoyu Xu; Siân Alsop; Helen Tsui – Language and Education, 2024
Although digital advances have enabled hundreds of universities to offer massive open online courses (MOOCs) to millions of students worldwide, the high dropout rate on these MOOCs indicates a disjunct between the potential of the offer and the success of its uptake. Many studies point to issues relating to interpersonal connection as a major…
Descriptors: MOOCs, Computer Science Education, Engineering Education, Dropout Rate
Sembiante, Sabrina F.; Cavallaro, Christina J.; Troyan, Francis John – Language and Education, 2021
Few studies in language teacher education programs provide insight on how knowledge of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) is developed by teacher candidates to support their metalinguistic awareness and preparation to teach language. Building upon the contributions of Johnson and Byrnes, we combined Halliday's language-based theory of learning…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Linguistic Theory, Sociocultural Patterns, Preservice Teachers
de Mejía, Anne-Marie – Language and Education, 2017
Despite Colombia's official recognition of its ethnic and cultural diversity, it has yet to develop in practice an inclusive educational vision involving the recognition of diversity, as well as promoting the country's insertion within the global market. Garcia et al. acknowledge the importance of "cultivating" students' diverse…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language of Instruction
Staarman, Judith Kleine – Language and Education, 2009
Classroom discourse is structured by socially accepted ways in which knowledge is presented and by established procedures for carrying out educational activities. However, the underlying linguistic and social ground rules are usually implicit, for students as well as for teachers. The implicitness of these ground rules has been attributed to…
Descriptors: Discussion Groups, Educational Technology, Classroom Communication, Cooperative Learning
Blanchette, Judith – Language and Education, 2009
The hierarchical system of speech acts developed by Sinclair and Coulthard ("Towards an analysis of discourse: The English used by teachers and pupils." Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1975) to describe interaction in traditional classrooms and later applied to face-to-face communication by Stenstrom ("An introduction to spoken interaction"…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Graduate Study, Speech Communication, Speech Acts
Peer reviewedLapadat, Judith C. – Language and Education, 2003
Presents a discourse analysis of contributions to an online interactive discussion forum of a graduate-level education course on discourse in classrooms. Examines content of postings over the course to describe participants' emerging perspectives on the role of classroom and school discourse in shaping student identity, the role of discourse in…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Computer Mediated Communication, Discourse Analysis, Educational Change
