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Behrens, Susan J.; Chirinos, Yoshivel; Spencer, Marisa; Spradley, Sonya – NADE Digest, 2016
Utilizing the framework of educational linguistics, we investigate ways to foster greater awareness of, and facility with, academic English for educators and students across disciplines by maximizing the popularity of language-related software packages, applications and websites, those already commonly found in and out of the classroom. Our work…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Computer Software, Metalinguistics, Web Sites
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Sangeen, Sakhidad – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2019
This study investigates the English collocations with Afghanistan Persian dialect equivalents words in the Afghanistanian context. This study aims to bring out the variations between English and Afghanistanian Persian dialect to analyze weather the collocational differences in English and Afghanistanian Persian dialect may create any problem of…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Perryman-Clark, Staci M. – College Composition and Communication, 2013
For the past few decades, composition researchers have devoted critical attention to studying the ways that African American students employ Africanized linguistic and rhetorical patterns successfully in expository writing situations. More recently, research has focused on the use of African-based rhetorical patterns, since the use of African…
Descriptors: African American Students, Writing Assignments, Language Patterns, Black Dialects
Hillman, Sara Katherine – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Drawing on Lave and Wenger's (1991) and Wenger's (1998) "communities of practice" (CoP) framework, this study explores the shared repertoire of humor practices in the creation of community within the context of a culturally diverse and multilevel adult Arabic language classroom consisting of two native speakers, five heritage language learners…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Video Technology, Semitic Languages, Language Patterns
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Scott, Chris; Brown, Kathleen – American Indian Quarterly, 2008
Using heuristic inquiry, this study investigates how dialect affects the ethnic identity development of the first author as well as fellow Lumbee students attending a predominantly white university. Heuristic inquiry is a process that begins with a question or problem that the researcher seeks to illuminate or answer. Findings from this study…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Dialects, Heuristics, American Indians
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Wible, Scott – College Composition and Communication, 2006
This essay examines a Brooklyn College-based research collective that placed African American languages and cultures at the center of the composition curriculum. Recovering such pedagogies challenges the perception of the CCCC's 1974 "Students' Right to Their Own Language" resolution as a progressive theory divorced from the everyday…
Descriptors: Curriculum Research, Writing Instruction, African Americans, Black Dialects