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Direct linkBrown, Bryan A.; Spang, Eliza – Science Education, 2008
This research project explores the language practices that emerged as a teacher taught a lesson designed to promote science literacy development for traditionally underrepresented students. This ethnographic study of a Detroit, Michigan, school examined the teacher's use of science language and its influence on students' use of science language.…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Discourse Analysis, Scientific Literacy, Minority Groups
Download full textThompson, Linda – 1992
A British ethnolinguistic study described the language behavior of 12 preschool children during their first experience in a formal educational setting where they constituted a linguistic minority. All were third-generation, British-born children of Moslem parents of ethnic Pakistani background; their home language was a vernacular Panjabi. Data…
Descriptors: Dialects, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Ethnology
Holloway, Dale W. – 1981
Minority cultures develop homogeneous customs, language, and thought patterns that affect the writing of individuals from these cultures. Once a student moves outside this homogeneous environment--for example, from an ethnic ghetto to white, middle class classrooms--ideas that seem to the writer to relate clearly to one another do not seem logical…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Cohesion (Written Composition), Communication Problems
Autonomy, Self-Direction, and Self Access in Language Teaching and Learning: The History of an Idea.
Peer reviewedGremmo, Marie-Jose; Riley, Philip – System, 1995
Identifies the ideas influencing the rise of autonomy and self-direction in educational milieus. Also discussed are the background of minority rights movements, shifts in educational philosophy, reactions against behaviorism, and wider access to education. Research into learning strategies has contributed directly to these changes. (73 references)…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Civil Rights, Counselor Role, Discourse Analysis
Akinnaso, F. Niyi – 1981
This paper focuses on the relationship between minority languages/cultures and educational achievement in mixed industrial societies, highlighting, in particular, the role of language and discourse strategies in the reproduction of educational inequality. Three major factors underlying accounts of inequalities in social and educational…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Communication, Cultural Background, Disadvantaged
Riggins, Stephen Harold, Ed. – 1997
A collection of essays on "the other" in discourse includes: "The Rhetoric of Othering" (Stephen Harold Riggins); "Political Discourse and Racism: Describing Others in Western Parliaments" (Teun A. van Dijk); "'Das Ausland' and Anti-Semitic Discourse: The Discursive Construction of the Other" (Ruth Wodak);…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Advertising, Afrocentrism, Anti Semitism
