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Direct linkHong Zhang; Xiaonan Li; Wenzhe Chang – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This study examines the representation of cultures across three sets of national English textbooks currently used in China by conducting a synchronic content analysis to explore what and how cultures are represented in the textbooks. Data analysis was conducted based on a newly constructed framework focusing on the content (countries and…
Descriptors: Cultural Traits, Cultural Awareness, Asian Culture, Textbooks
Barbara Pizziconi; Noriko Iwasaki – Language Learning Journal, 2024
Upon encountering unfamiliar words or observing local practices in study abroad contexts, second language learners may discuss aspects of the target language and culture with their peers -- 'non-native' friends from the same cultural background or 'natives' of the target culture. Such mediations are instrumental in elaborating understandings, but…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, Cultural Context, Stereotypes
Liu, Yanhong; Zhang, Lawrence Jun; May, Stephen – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2022
A number of studies have reported the cultural representations in English textbooks in many contexts, especially those in Asia. However, these studies relied on a small data set and the findings suffered severe limitations. To overcome such shortcomings, we self-built a corpus that has 40 volumes/books of over one million words to examine the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, Content Analysis, Second Language Learning
Download full textHuang, Wen-Ding; Morrissey, Paul; Chan, Pao-Jing – Higher Education Studies, 2022
The purposes of this paper are to investigate Taiwanese undergraduate students' responses to a selected fictional text, and to propose a critical intercultural pedagogical approach of reading global literature in the EFL educational context based on the insights from the research findings. The authors first critically analysed Xiaolu Guo's third…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Boivin, Nettie – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
Researchers have attempted to address the intersection of multisensory and multimodal discourse practices from an interactional perspective. This study argues for the value of experiential, non-interactional multisensory discourse resources and proposes a conceptual framework of "multisensory discourse resources" to bridge visual and…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Discourse Analysis, Multisensory Learning, Guidelines
Lam, Shui-fong; Jimerson, Shane; Shin, Hyeonsook; Cefai, Carmel; Veiga, Feliciano H.; Hatzichristou, Chryse; Polychroni, Fotini; Kikas, Eve; Wong, Bernard P. H.; Stanculescu, Elena; Basnett, Julie; Duck, Robert; Farrell, Peter; Liu, Yi; Negovan, Valeria; Nelson, Brett; Yang, Hongfei; Zollneritsch, Josef – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2016
Background: A comprehensive understanding of the contextual factors that are linked to student engagement requires research that includes cross-cultural perspectives. Aims: This study investigated how student engagement in school is associated with grade, gender, and contextual factors across 12 countries. It also investigated whether these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Learner Engagement, Cross Cultural Studies
Clayton, Carmen Lau – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2013
The assumption that Chinese young people are passive beings with little or no agency is a dominant theme within the academic literature. However PhD research findings demonstrate how British Chinese adolescents (aged 11-14) do exhibit varying degrees of agency in their lives. Here, agency is understood as individuals having the capacity to act, to…
Descriptors: Asians, Interviews, Foreign Countries, Adolescents
Crozier, Gill – Theory Into Practice, 2009
This article explores teacher expectations of second-generation UK South Asian students (of Bangladeshi and Pakistani heritage) and their views of the parents as lacking high aspirations for their children. A range of misguided perceptions and stereotypical views are discussed and challenged. The author argues that these views are largely based on…
Descriptors: Asians, Teacher Expectations of Students, Parent Aspiration, Foreign Countries
Sun, Hechuan; Creemers, Bert P. M.; de Jong, Rob – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2007
This research provides policy-makers, researchers, and educators at all levels with a glimpse of the contextual influence on effective school improvement (ESI) in 8 European countries. What are the factors at the contextual level, particularly at the national level, which influence ESI? Are there any similarities or differences between the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Effectiveness, Educational Improvement, Context Effect
Peer reviewedO'Neil, Daniel J. – Journal of Ethnic Studies, 1987
This examination of nation-building in Ireland portrays a successful example of an enclave people who first developed a consciousness of nationhood and then acquired statehood. Both processes were problematic. Factors which influenced this transformation are the following: (1) the definition of Irishness; (2) language; (3) religion; (4) history;…
Descriptors: Catholics, Cultural Traits, Economic Factors, Ethnicity
Peer reviewedSherington, Geoffrey – History of Education, 2003
Focuses on a study of adults who were part of the child migration era in the early twentieth century United Kingdom. Argues former effects on migrant children have had a negative influence in terms of personal and cultural identity. Notes suspected physical and sexual abuse of some migrant children. (KDR)
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Cultural Traits, Educational History, Educational Research
Peer reviewedColdrey, Barry – Children & Society, 2001
Explores reasons for the abuse phenomenon throughout traditional residential care provided for boys and young men in the United Kingdom. Addresses specifically the severe discipline which often became abusive, the presence of sexual abuse, severe staff reaction to resistance, and the similarities of regimen across the spectrum of traditional care…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Children, Cultural Traits, Foreign Countries
Larson, James F.; Rivenburgh, Nancy K. – 1989
A study was conducted to describe the extent and dimensions of televised messages about nation, culture, and the Olympics, comparing them across three broadcast systems in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The study was based on complete opening ceremony telecasts by NBC in America, Australia's Network TEN, and the British…
Descriptors: Athletics, Broadcast Television, Comparative Analysis, Content Analysis
Peer reviewedIvanic, Roz; Camps, David – Journal of Second Language Writing, 2001
Argues that lexical, syntactic, organizational, and material aspects of writing construct identity just as much as the phonetic and prosodic aspects of speech do. Illustrates this with writing samples of graduate students studying in British universities. Recommends second language writing pedagogy that raises critical awareness about voice.…
Descriptors: Cultural Traits, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Graduate Students
Atkin, Chris – Compare, 2003
Considers the nature of rurality as a social construct and implications for policymakers considering lifelong education in developed economies of the world. Discussion focuses on three key questions: (1) what is rurality?; (2) what effect has rurality on cultural identity; and (3) what are rural and urban young people's perceptions of formal…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Cultural Traits, Developed Nations, Economic Development
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