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Richard Beach – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2025
Purpose: This paper posits the need for English language arts (ELA) teachers to foster students' use of languaging about their relations with ecosystems and peers, leading to their engaging in collective action to critique and transform status-quo systems impacting the climate crisis. Design/methodology/approach: This paper reviews the current…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Criticism, Language Usage, Native Language
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Beach, Richard; Caraballo, Limarys – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2021
Purpose: Unlike formalist and functional approaches to literacy and teaching writing, a languaging theory approach centers on the dynamic and interpersonal nature of writing. The purpose of this study was to determine students' ability to engage in explicit reflection about their languaging actions in response to their personal narrative writing…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Code Switching (Language), Grade 12, High School Students
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Lau, Sunny Man Chu – Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2020
Translanguaging theory highlights linguistic and semiotic resources as an integrated communicative repertoire for knowledge construction (Li, 2018). Language is learned and used in conjunction with other modalities through processes of resemiotization (Iedema, 2003) or transmediation (Suhor, 1984) where meaning is made and remade across modes.…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Action Research, College School Cooperation, English
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Jackson, Glenn – Language and Education, 2021
To engage in critical praxis, teachers of literary response writing need concepts and methods for understanding the efficacy of teaching practices in helping students develop particular dispositions towards texts and the social issues they represent. In this article, the author uses concepts from Legitimation Code Theory (LCT) and Systemic…
Descriptors: Linguistics, English, Language Arts, Grade 8
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Roessingh, Hetty – BC TEAL Journal, 2016
Using Beck, McKeown and Kucan's (2002) three-tiered model as a general framework for vocabulary, this article sheds light on the construct of academic vocabulary and how it might be measured. Using illustrative writing samples of student work of different genres and drawing on corpus based studies, I highlight the distinction between general, high…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Vocabulary Skills, English, Language Arts
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Schleppegrell, Mary J. – Language Learning, 2013
Recent currents in language learning research highlight the social and emergent aspects of second language (L2) development and recognize that learners need opportunities for interaction in meaningful contexts supported by explicit attention to language itself. These perspectives suggest new ways of conceptualizing the challenges faced by children…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Role Perception, Academic Discourse, English Language Learners
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Accurso, Kathryn – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
Many K-12 teachers struggle to meet the needs of diverse learners as school reforms promote new disciplinary literacy requirements. In response, language education scholars have argued that teachers must develop "disciplinary linguistic knowledge" (DLK), or an understanding of language in their content area and an ability to design…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Literacy, Intellectual Disciplines
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Myhill, Debra; Watson, Annabel – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2014
For most Anglophone countries, the history of grammar teaching over the past 50 years is one of contestation, debate and dissent: and 50 years on we are no closer to reaching a consensus about the role of grammar in the English/Language Arts curriculum. The debate has been described through the metaphor of battle and grammar wars (Kamler, 1995;…
Descriptors: Role, Grammar, Writing Instruction, English Instruction
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Ajayi, Lasisi – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2011
Disney videos are used across the US as important materials for teaching language arts and literacy in elementary schools. However, how pupils make meaning of the videos has not been sufficiently investigated in educational research. Twenty-five third-grade pupils were taught comprehension skills using "Sleeping Beauty." The students created their…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Comprehension, Educational Research, Language Arts
Lehmann, A. G. – Modern Languages, 1974
This essay is an overview of the state of language arts and sciences, or theory and applied skills, and it surveys literacy levels, ability in both native and second languages, language education and linguistic theory. (CK)
Descriptors: Grammar, Language, Language Arts, Language Fluency
Fisher, Carol J.; Terry, C. Ann – 1977
This volume, intended for use in basic courses in language arts methods or in in-service training situations, presents a program of instruction based on Piaget's views of learning and the psycholinguistic perception of language acquisition and development. Throughout the discussion, language and intellectual development are related to children's…
Descriptors: Child Language, Elementary Education, English Instruction, Language Ability
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Vermeer, Hans J. – International Review of Applied Linguistics, 1965
This analysis of several principles of translation considers relationships between content and meaning, distinctive features and linguistic form, and language and speech. The dichotomies of individual and community speech patterns, situationally determined and independent language usage, and denotative and expressive usage are also examined. The…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, Dictionaries, German
Gorrell, Robert M. – 1976
Even though linguistics has freed us from misconceptions, we have continued to seek answers to usage problems primarily by looking to linguistics. The myth of the verbal authority of standard speakers has given way to the evaluation of statistical frequency of forms. No matter how extensive or accurate the statistics, they must still be followed…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Educational Philosophy, Educational Theories, Language Arts
CARROLL, JOHN B. – 1953
EMPHASIZING THE FIELD OF LINGUISTICS, THIS BOOK DESCRIBES THE HISTORY, SCOPE, PROBLEMS, AND CURRENT STATE OF THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION IN THE UNITED STATES. THE MAJOR PORTION OF THE BOOK, DEVOTED TO LINGUISTIC SCIENCE, IS COMPRISED OF (1) EXPLANATIONS OF HOW LINGUISTIC SCIENCE COMPARES, FROM THE HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE POINTS OF…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Communication (Thought Transfer), Education, Information Theory
Savignon, Sandra J. – 1983
An introduction to the theoretical bases of communicative language teaching and a guide to building a second language program consonant with those theories are presented for classroom teachers and teachers in training. After examining the issues underlying recent developments in second language teaching, an overview is presented of the research…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages), Course Descriptions, Elementary Secondary Education
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