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Araba A. Z. Osei-Tutu – Research in the Teaching of English, 2024
African immigrants in the US and across the globe are confronted with issues of language and culture retention, resistance to the loss of the same, and reconstruction of their identities while navigating the sociocultural and sociopolitical contexts of the host nations. The experiences of one such family are shared through the African Oral…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Story Telling, English Teachers, Language Arts
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Tullock, Brandon D.; Fernandez-Villanueva, Marta – Research in the Teaching of English, 2013
In recent years, scholars have voiced the need for research which focuses on the ability of multilinguals to write across multiple languages rather than on the limitations that they face when composing in a non-native language. In order to better understand multilingual writers as resourceful and creative problem-solvers, the current study aims to…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Multilingualism, Writing (Composition), Problem Solving
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Dewayani, Sophie – Research in the Teaching of English, 2013
The "Education for All policy" is one of the Indonesian government's solutions to return children who work in the street to formal schooling. Unfortunately, access to higher education, which can enable vertical mobility for these children, is constrained by many factors, including financial opportunities. This study examines the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Concept, Futures (of Society), Poverty
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Spalding, Elizabeth; Wang, Jian; Lin, Emily; Hu, Guangwei – Research in the Teaching of English, 2009
This study explored how voice developed in the English writing of 57 Chinese teachers of English who participated in a three-week writing workshop during a summer institute in a large, urban school district in southeastern China. Teachers from grades three through twelve wrote daily in English in a workshop environment. Primary data sources were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Perry, Kristen H.; Moses, Annie M. – Research in the Teaching of English, 2011
This ethnographic study explored the ways in which media, particularly television, connected with English language and literacy practices among Sudanese refugees in Michigan. Three families with young children participated in this study. Data collection included participant observation, interviews, and collection of artifacts over 18 months, with…
Descriptors: Refugees, Family (Sociological Unit), Foreign Countries, Television
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Black, Rebecca W. – Research in the Teaching of English, 2009
Based on longitudinal data from a three year ethnographic study, this article uses discourse analytic methods to explore the literacy and social practices of three adolescent English language learners writing in an online fan fiction community. Theoretical constructs within globalization and literacy studies are used to describe the influences of…
Descriptors: Fiction, Web Sites, Discourse Analysis, Adolescents
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Chun, Christian W. – Research in the Teaching of English, 2012
This article examines the ways in which a multimodal text--a YouTube video on globalization and business--was mediated in two English for Academic Purposes (EAP) classrooms, and how these mediations shaped the instructor's and her students' meaning-making in specific ways. I first explore the complex multimodal discourses involved with this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English for Academic Purposes, Business Administration Education, Intermode Differences
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Skerrett, Allison – Research in the Teaching of English, 2010
This study compares and contrasts the selection and distribution of literary texts in the English programs of two diverse secondary schools, one in Massachusetts, USA, the other in Ontario, Canada. Analysis of the departments' curriculum documents, state/provincial curriculum policies, and teacher interviews indicated that at both schools,…
Descriptors: English Curriculum, Advanced Courses, Foreign Countries, Teacher Educators
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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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Feitelson, Dina; And Others – Research in the Teaching of English, 1986
Investigates the effects of reading a series-format, many-volumed story to disadvantaged first graders. Results indicate that children who had been read to outscored children in the control classes on measures of decoding, reading comprehension, and active use of language. (SRT)
Descriptors: Child Language, Decoding (Reading), Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition
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Long, Susi – Research in the Teaching of English, 1998
Examines the author's daughter's experiences of being socialized into the language of Iceland through the eight-year-old's immersion in Icelandic culture. Shows how play-based activities with native-speaking peers was critical to her language and literacy development. Argues that authentic activity in social life is the key to learning literacy…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Literacy