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Wedin, Åsa; Rosén, Jenny; Straszer, Boglárka – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2021
This article is aimed to demonstrate how language policy at the local school level may create space for translanguaging. Focus is on a Mother Tongue (MT) classroom for Somali in a primary school in Sweden by way of an analysis of layers of language policy, with focus on spatial aspects. The empirical material consists of policy documents,…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Photography, African Languages, Native Language
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Engman, Mel M. – Classroom Discourse, 2021
The growing demand for Indigenous language education in the United States often relies on community teachers with widely varying proficiencies as part of local language reclamation efforts. While these English-dominant 'teacher-learners' play a central role in the success of classroom-based K-12 language programs, their classroom experiences and…
Descriptors: Worksheets, Educational Technology, American Indian Languages, Language Maintenance
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Kline, Sonia; Letofsky, Kirsten; Woodard, Rebecca – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2013
This article is intended to highlight peer response discourse trends and to initiate a dialogue about the ways in which educators, and designers of educational environments, can play a central role in creating more democratic discourse in classrooms. We report on a research and development project involving education experts, computer engineers,…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Grade 8, Feedback (Response), Peer Evaluation
Jan, Mingfong; San, Chee Yam; Tan, Ek Ming – Online Submission, 2011
There is a need for schools to engage students in constructing scientific theories like practicing scientists in order to excel in the 21st century knowledge economy. An approach to engage students in constructing scientific theories is to enculturate students in doing science with language, which differs from the mainstream classroom…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Role Playing, Epistemology, Science Instruction
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Fernandez-Cardenas, Juan Manuel; Silveyra-De La Garza, Marcela Lucia – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2010
In this study the authors have looked at the use of interactive whiteboards (IWBs) in Mexico from a linguistic anthropological perspective. Twenty lessons were video recorded to compare the use of IWBs and traditional boards in different areas of the curriculum in primary schools. Data were analysed as a set of sequenced communicative events in…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Intellectual Disciplines, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis
Christian, Donna; And Others – 1997
This monograph discusses issues in the design and implementation of two-way immersion, or two-way bilingual education programs, and describes three exemplary programs. An introductory section examines briefly the rationale for two-way immersion and the extent of its use in the United States. Three school program profiles follow: (1) Francis Scott…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrative Organization, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment