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Rochelle Yi Hsuan Yang – Educational Research and Development Journal, 2024
The integration of augmented reality (AR) into children's literature has transformed traditional reading experiences, creating immersive and interactive environments that engage young readers. This study examines the creative methods of comic language within AR children's books, positing that the combination of humor and visual storytelling can…
Descriptors: Humor, Creativity, Language Usage, Books
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Peng, Yuan-yuan – English Language Teaching, 2020
Recently, there are limited specific researches on the pragmatic strategies of teachers' criticism from the angle of the Politeness Principle, among which most of them argue that teachers should adopt appropriate politeness strategies when criticizing students. However, only a few researchers point out that Leech's Politeness Principle is…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Speech Acts, Empathy, Criticism
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Martínez, Ramón Antonio; Morales, P. Zitlali – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2014
This article explores the role of profanity and graphic humor in the bilingual wordplay of Latin@ middle school students. We highlight the creativity, skill, and communicative competence embedded in this transgressive wordplay, revealing how these youth employed profanity and graphic humor to index ethnic solidarity and construct bilingual…
Descriptors: Humor, Language Usage, Bilingualism, Self Concept
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Civil, Marta; Hunter, Roberta – Intercultural Education, 2015
This article focuses on argumentation in mathematics classrooms in two different geographic contexts, the US and New Zealand. Drawing on data from a case with immigrant students (Pasifika) in NZ and a case with Mexican American students in the US, we argue for the need to study the concept of argumentation through a cultural and language lens. Our…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Mathematics Instruction, Cultural Background, Immigrants