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Hafner, Christoph A. – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2015
A number of scholars maintain that the affordances of digital media to easily copy, edit, and share digital content has led to the development of a "remix culture" in which the amateur creation of cultural artifacts--often remixes, mashups, or parodies based on the creative works of others--has proliferated. At the same time, in TESOL…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Adoniou, Misty; Qing, Yi – Australian Mathematics Teacher, 2014
There is a correlation between language proficiency and achievement in mathematics (Riordain & O'Donoghue, 2009), and this is particularly evident for children who speak English as an additional language or dialect. More effort needs to be made in mathematics classrooms to develop cognitive competencies, including the ability to decode and…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Mathematics Achievement, Mathematics Instruction, Language Proficiency
Love, Alison – 1990
In Zimbabwe, university students continue to have problems with scientific communication despite the fact that English is a widely-used second language and students have received most formal science instruction in English. However, the problems differ from those of both students of English as a foreign language and students studying their first…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, English for Science and Technology, English (Second Language), Error Patterns