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Havva Zorluel Özer – Research in the Teaching of English, 2024
Drawing on surveys and interviews with college writing instructors and students at a public university in the United States, this mixed methods study revealed that in many cases instructors adopted translingual orientations, whereas students were committed to norms in their views of writing across differences. Students' orientations to language as…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Language Usage
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Martinez, Ramon Antonio – Research in the Teaching of English, 2010
This article reports findings from a qualitative study of Spanish-English code-switching--or "Spanglish"--among bilingual Latina/Latino sixth graders at a middle school in East Los Angeles. Analysis of the data revealed significant parallels between the skills embedded in students' everyday use of "Spanglish" and the skills…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Spanish, English, Qualitative Research
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Alston, Chandra L. – Research in the Teaching of English, 2012
The debate surrounding how best to support African American student writers continues today as the gap between achievement scores persists. This qualitative analysis documents the classroom structures and instructional practices of two English Language Arts teachers working in a predominately African American public middle school, whose students…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), African American Students, Social Support Groups, Process Approach (Writing)
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Rodrigues, Raymond J. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1980
Reports on a study of the oral and written English syntax of both Gaelic/English bilingual and English monolingual fourth- and ninth-grade students on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland. Concludes that the use of English syntax by bilingual speakers was equal to or (in one measure) superior to that of monolingual speakers. (ET)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Comparative Analysis
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Braun, Carl; Klassen, Bernard – Research in the Teaching of English, 1973
Descriptors: Elementary Education, English, Ethnic Studies, Language Research
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Shuy, Roger W. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1973
Explores the history of the study of Black English and the history of researchers' and teachers' attitudes towards Black English and its study. (RB)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Educational Change, English, Higher Education