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Sybing, Roehl – Classroom Discourse, 2023
The contemporary literature regarding dialogic classroom interaction has primarily focused on the meaning-making attributes of dialogue while acknowledging but otherwise providing less emphasis to the social dimensions of the learning community and the dialogic resources that students bring to the classroom. As a result, this paper explores the…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Classroom Communication, Native Language, Japanese
Alex Bakke – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Discourse markers (DMs) are linguistic forms characterized by their use as conversation organizers or pause fillers (Fox Tree, 2010). Although used frequently in both speech and writing, DMs are not often taught in L2 classrooms, despite incorrect usage causing potential misunderstandings (Polat, 2011). Additionally, L2 learners have been observed…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Classification
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Shimray, Ringphami; Wangdi, Thinley – MEXTESOL Journal, 2023
While some researchers claim that the use of the first language (L1) in second language (L2) classrooms should be discouraged since they say that success in learning an L2 is heavily determined by the maximum exposure to it, but others argue that the use of L1 is beneficial particularly in EFL classrooms. This study was conducted to investigate…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Usage, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Chaparro, Sofía E. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2023
This paper addresses the interactional dynamics of one bilingual, two-way immersion classroom where children came from diverse linguistic, cultural, racial, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Based on an ethnographic discourse analytic study of one kindergarten TWI classroom, I analyze interactional data using participant frameworks as the unit of…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Discourse Analysis, Bilingualism, Socialization
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Pawliszko, Judyta – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2023
The present study draws on the theoretical framework of translanguaging and seeks to shed light on the patterns of translanguaging and how translanguaging affects meaning-making processes among bilingual children in preschool. This case study focuses on 8 months of observation and recordings of pupils ranging in age from 3 to 6 years. The gathered…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Bilingualism, Speech Communication, Code Switching (Language)
Truman, Lauren – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This study examines the language use patterns of students in a math class that is part of a Spanish-English two-way, secondary continuation program. Audio recordings from five class periods were analyzed in order to quantify the opportunities provided for minority language by the teacher, as well as student uptake of those opportunities. This is…
Descriptors: Algebra, Mathematics Instruction, Spanish, English
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Williamson, Thea; Clemons, Aris – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2023
Purpose: Little research has been done exploring the nature of multilingual students who are not categorized as English language learners (ELLs) in English language arts (ELA) classes. This study about a group of multilingual girls in an ELA class led by a monolingual white teacher aims to show how, when a teacher makes space for translanguaging…
Descriptors: English, Language Arts, Code Switching (Language), Multilingualism
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Kim, Dong-Joong; Lim, Woong – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2018
This study compares English- and Korean-speaking university students' colloquial and mathematical discourses on the notion and practice of limit. There exists a lexical discontinuity in Korean with the word limit, since the mathematical word for limit is not commonly used as a colloquial word in Korean, unlike its use in English. This study…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, English, Korean, College Students
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Barón, Júlia; Roquet, Helena; Evnitskaya, Natalia; Navarro, Noelia – English Language Teaching, 2020
This study aims to explore how the speech act of requesting is performed in Catalan (L1), English (L1) and EFL classrooms by pre-primary teachers. The study examines transcripts of 40-minute video-recorded lessons (six in Catalan/L1, six in English/FL, and three in English/L1) collected in several pre-primary schools in Catalonia, Spain. Recall…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Preschool Education, Romance Languages, Native Language
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Barwell, Richard – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 2020
Research focused on learning mathematics in a 2nd language is generally located in individual 2nd-language contexts. In this ethnographic study, I investigated mathematics learning in 4 different second-language contexts: a mainstream classroom, a sheltered classroom for Indigenous students, a welcome class for new immigrants, and a…
Descriptors: Socialization, Ethnography, Mathematics Instruction, Immigrants
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Turner, Marianne; Fielding, Ruth – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2021
The term 'CLIL' has been used in Australia for over a decade, and the approach has helped to invigorate languages education in both primary and secondary schools. In particular, the flexibility of CLIL has led to a range of teachers accessing CLIL training: from teachers in structured programs where schools have committed to organisational change,…
Descriptors: Content and Language Integrated Learning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Johnson, Haley E.; Molloy Elreda, Lauren; Kibler, Amanda K.; Futch Ehrlich, Valerie A. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2020
Employing a social capital framework, this study investigates teachers' role in influencing the peer dynamics between English learners (ELs) and their non-EL peers. Participants include 713 students (211 EL students). Observed teacher-student interaction quality and teacher self-reports of their peer network management were used to operationalize…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Social Capital, Peer Relationship, English Language Learners
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Zhou, Wenying; Li, Guofang – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
Based on video recordings of five pre-k to grade 4 Chinese dual-language bilingual education (DLBE) teachers' classroom instruction, this article examines the Chinese DLBE teachers' target and first language use and pedagogical moves during their processes of learning to teach in immersion schools in the US. Conversational analyses of classroom…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Lee, Alice Y.; Handsfield, Lara J. – Reading Teacher, 2018
Classrooms act as linguistic sieves when they continue to accept only dominant forms of English as the "correct" and "appropriate" language choice for all students. Students who speak other languages, such as African American Language or Spanish, are often encouraged to use those languages on the playground or at home but not…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning, Language Usage, Native Language
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Beaupoil-Hourdel, Pauline – Research-publishing.net, 2020
In teacher training curricula, books are presented as an ideal material for building and enriching young children's language. Yet, the routine of reading at home with children is hardly ever mentioned. In this chapter, the author proposes analyses of story-reading activities from a usage-based and first language acquisition perspective. The goal…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Child Language
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