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Nuñez, Idalia – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2021
In the current anti-immigrant context, Latinx families, children, and communities experience language as a highly contested and surveilled practice with consequential effects. In this study, I drew on the concept of literacies of surveillance and translanguaging to examine how language was embodied and rationalized in the context of three homes of…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Immigration, Political Attitudes, Hispanic Americans
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Ahmad, Paiman Ramazan – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
To the best of our knowledge this is the first attempt to investigate student engagement in learning within the Kurdistan region in general and at University of Raparin in particular. Student engagement, self-learning, faculty-student interaction and promoting personal responsibility, besides environment of learning are the components for this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learner Engagement, Undergraduate Students, English (Second Language)
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Wang, Ya-huei – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2010
The purpose of this study is to determine whether a pedagogy grounded in dialogical ideals has the potential to empower students to make changes in English classroom interaction. The study first scrutinized the traditional "banking" educational system in English classrooms in which students were passive learners to realize students'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Echevarria, Jana; McDonough, Renee – 1993
Instructional conversations (ICs) represent an alternative approach to the instruction of culturally and linguistically diverse populations. It has instructional intent, but appears to be a spontaneous conversation with natural language interactions. Successful ICs depend on identification of a text-specific theme that is significant and tied to…
Descriptors: Black Students, Cultural Differences, Educational Environment, Elementary Education
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Allan, Margaret – Prospect, 1997
A study investigated the phenomenon of learner autonomy in six graduate students in a course in English for academic purposes. Students were developing skills in discourse intonation using a CD-ROM program, designed to encourage autonomous learning. Student interview data suggest that development of explicit knowledge of the language system can…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware, Educational Environment, English (Second Language)
Motta-Roth, Desiree; And Others – 1995
To investigate teaching practices for English as a foreign/second language (EFL) at the university level in Brazil, three researchers analyzed the research presented at the 1990 Brazilian National Conference of EFL University Teachers (ENPULI Conference). Focus of the analysis was on the main objective of the study and the emphasis placed on…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Research, Conference Proceedings, Educational Environment