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Sara Salloum; Rena Al Debs; Saouma BouJaoude – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2025
The purpose of this study was to explore translanguaging space as a transformative third space, where alternative and competing discourses are celebrated and where science learning and the development of science's discourse and epistemic practices expand across overlapping boundaries (e.g., home, school, and community). The study focused on Syrian…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Native Language, Second Language Learning, Multilingualism
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Scott E. Grapin; Marisleydi Ramos Borrego; Vijay Gallardo Navarro – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2025
Research on translanguaging in science and engineering education has grown rapidly. Studies carried out across diverse contexts converge in their commitment to fostering equity in science and engineering learning for linguistically marginalized learners. However, the rapid growth of this research area has exposed different approaches to…
Descriptors: Science Education, Engineering Education, Code Switching (Language), Language Usage
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Shakhnoza Kayumova; Akira Harper; Rachel Moniz-Stronach – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2025
Multilingual youth, from nondominant communities, are often denied critical opportunities for engagement in robust sensemaking due to deficit-based perspectives and linguistic hierarchies. To advance equity, it is important to recognize all youth as epistemic agents and facilitate opportunities to take on intellectual positions. Drawing on…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Science Instruction, Multilingualism, Equal Education
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Enrique Suárez; Valerie Otero – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2024
There is a significant amount of research literature on the importance of identifying and building on students' experiences and ideas for making sense of the natural world, especially when engaging in science practices. Simultaneously, approaches to creating justice-oriented science education promote the need to focus on the diverse sense-making…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Science Education, Equal Education, English (Second Language)
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González-Howard, María; McNeill, Katherine L. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2016
Recent education reform efforts have included an increasing push for school science to better mirror authentic scientific endeavor, including a focus on science practices. However, despite expectations that all students engage in these language-rich practices, little prior research has focused on how such opportunities will be created for…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Learner Engagement, Educational Change, English (Second Language)
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Noblit, George W. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2013
In this commentary, the author first examines how culture is being used in the articles in this special issue, points to the venerable histories being deployed in these usages, and explores a sense of what could be in the sociocultural and cultural analysis of science education for each article. His review of these articles led to a trope, a…
Descriptors: Science Education, Scientific Research, Cultural Influences, Socioeconomic Influences
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Fung, Dennis; Yip, Valerie – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2014
A 3-year study was launched in a Hong Kong secondary school to investigate the effects of the medium of instruction (MOI), specifically English and Chinese, on the learning of certificate-level physics. A total of 199 Secondary Four (S4 or tenth-grade) students, divided into three major ability groups, participated in a teaching intervention…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Language of Instruction, Chinese
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Shaw, Jerome M.; Bunch, George C.; Geaney, Edward R. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2010
This article report on the development and use of an analytical framework intended to map the language demands encountered by English learners as they engage in science performance assessments. Grounded in functional and interactional views of language and language use, the authors--two science education researchers and a language…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Science Tests, Language Proficiency, English (Second Language)
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Martin, Sonya N.; Siry, Christina – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2011
In this paper, we employ cultural sociology and Braj Kachru's model of World Englishes as theoretical and analytical tools for considering English as a form of capital necessary for widely disseminating research findings from local networks of practice to the greater science education research community. We present a brief analysis of recent…
Descriptors: Researchers, Communities of Practice, Access to Information, English for Science and Technology
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Noble, Tracy; Suarez, Catherine; Rosebery, Ann; O'Connor, Mary Catherine; Warren, Beth; Hudicourt-Barnes, Josiane – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2012
Education policy in the U.S. in the last two decades has emphasized large-scale assessment of students, with growing consequences for schools, teachers, and students. Given the high stakes of such tests, it is important to understand the relationships between students' answers to test items and their knowledge and skills in the tested content…
Descriptors: Testing, Science Tests, Second Language Learning, Measures (Individuals)
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Lee, Okhee; Penfield, Randall; Maerten-Rivera, Jaime – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2009
This study examined the effect of fidelity of implementation (FOI) on the science achievement gains of third grade students broadly and students with limited literacy in English specifically. The study was conducted in the context of a professional development intervention with elementary school teachers to promote science achievement of ELL…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Intervention, Science Achievement, Achievement Gains
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Lee, Okhee; Maerten-Rivera, Jaime; Penfield, Randall D.; LeRoy, Kathryn; Secada, Walter G. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2008
This study is part of a 5-year professional development intervention aimed at improving science and literacy achievement of English language learners (or ELL students) in urban elementary schools within an environment increasingly driven by high-stakes testing and accountability. Specifically, the study examined science achievement at the end of…
Descriptors: Intervention, Elementary Schools, Science Achievement, Achievement Gains
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Lee, Okhee; Luykx, Aurolyn; Buxton, Cory; Shaver, Annis – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2007
This study examined the impact of a professional development intervention aimed at helping elementary teachers incorporate elements of students' home language and culture into science instruction. The intervention consisted of instructional units and materials and teacher workshops. The research involved 43 third- and fourth-grade teachers at six…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Intervention, Focus Groups, Academic Achievement
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Shaver, Annis; Cuevas, Peggy; Lee, Okhee; Avalos, Mary – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2007
This study asked elementary school teachers how educational policies affected their science instruction with a majority of English language learners. The study employed a questionnaire followed by focus group interviews with 43 third and fourth grade teachers from six elementary schools in a large urban school district with high populations of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Grade 4, Science Instruction, Opinions
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Tobin, Kenneth; McRobbie, Campbell J. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1996
Investigates Chinese-Australian students learning of chemistry. Reports that despite students' efforts to learn chemistry with understanding, difficulties in speaking and writing English were factors that limited performance. Suggests that learning can be facilitated when Limited English Proficiency students are provided with opportunities to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Chemistry, Cultural Context, English (Second Language)
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