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Sedlacek, Quentin Charles – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2023
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to support advocacy for racial and linguistic justice by examining teachers' efforts to contest their colleagues' language-exclusive policies and practices. Design/methodology/approach: The author used a critical and reconstructive discourse analysis guided by interest convergence theory to analyze narratives…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Advocacy, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Policy
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Farrar, Jennifer; Stone, Kelly – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2019
Purpose: Critical literacy foregrounds the relationship between language and power by focusing on how texts work and in whose interests (Luke, 2012, p. 5). It is highlighted as an "important skill" within Scotland's national educational framework for 3-18 year olds, the Curriculum for Excellence (CfE), yet, as this paper aims to show,…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, Correlation, Language Usage, Power Structure
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Johnson, Lindy L. – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2014
Drawing on sociocultural perspectives and New Literacies Studies this study uses Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) as a tool to closely analyse one way the Common Core State Standards in the United States are being produced, disseminated and consumed. The analysis focuses on a section of the CCSS, a model lesson given by one of the primary…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Sociocultural Patterns, Core Curriculum, State Standards
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Saxena, Mukul – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2009
The socio-cultural settings of English-language and English-medium classrooms are intrinsically bi/multilingual and bi/multicultural as both learners and teachers bring their multiple identities and home-community languages and sociolinguistic practices into the classroom. However, more often than not in such contexts, monolingual ideologies are…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Conflict, Multilingualism, Ethnography
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Goldberg, Jennifer; Enyedy, Noel; Welsh, Kate Muir; Galiani, Kathryn – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2009
In this study, we explore language--specifically the use of Spanish, in a sixth-grade science classroom, where the district recognises English as the official language of instruction. The question guiding our analysis is: How is Spanish positioned in Ms. Cook's science class? Transcribed interaction from twelve weeks of videotaping is coded and…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Learning Activities, Official Languages, Language of Instruction
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Martin-Beltran, Melinda – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2009
Grounded in sociocultural theory, this study uses an ecological approach to examine how student interactions within a dual-language school context may offer affordances for increased linguistic and conceptual understanding. Using qualitative analysis of student discourse, this paper focuses on data from recorded interactions between pairs of…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Holistic Approach, Grade 5, Minority Groups