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Zachary Maher; Carolyn Mazzei; Ebony Terrell Shockley; Tatiana Thonesavanh; Jan Edwards – Reading Research Quarterly, 2024
Despite decades of sociolinguistic research, African American Language (AAL) remains stigmatized throughout the United States education system. There have been proposals to counteract this through curricula and/or ideological interventions targeted at teachers that seek to validate AAL while maintaining Dominant American English (DAE) as an…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Elementary School Teachers, Kindergarten, Grade 1
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Sophocleous, Andry; Ioannidou, Elena – Language and Education, 2020
This study examines young speakers' language use in the bidialectal context of Cyprus. It focuses on children's language use of their two language varieties, namely Standard Modern Greek and Cypriot Greek, and how they are being socialised to use these two varieties in the classroom environment and at home. The data collected from kindergarten…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Language Usage, Greek, Standard Spoken Usage
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Eller, Stephanie; Nieto, David – Association of Mexican American Educators Journal, 2021
The practice of translanguaging offers emergent bilinguals the opportunity to access their full linguistic repertoire. This qualitative study uses the lenses of dynamic bilingualism and idiolect, or one's own unique language patterns, to explore emergent bilinguals' translanguaging and reading comprehension strategies during a reading think-aloud,…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Bilingualism, Language Usage, Native Language
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Birnie-Smith, Jessica – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2023
Variationist researchers are increasingly adopting intersectionality approaches to analyse identity-linked practice. However, the field of sociolinguistic variation is yet to embrace the full ramifications of intersectionality as an analytical framework. The current paper offers a new method for integrating intersectional approaches into…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Minority Groups, Asians, Foreign Countries
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Schnur, Erin; Rubio, Fernando – Language Learning & Technology, 2021
Using the 2.4-million-word written Spanish subsection of the Corpus of Utah Dual Language Immersion, collected from a large-scale standardized writing assessment of K-12 Spanish second language (L2) students, this study focuses on lexical complexity as operationalized by three measures: lexical diversity, lexical density, and lexical…
Descriptors: Spanish, Immersion Programs, Computational Linguistics, Bilingual Education Programs
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Van Viege, Saskia; Lau, Sunny Man Chu – TESL Canada Journal, 2022
This Perspectives article proposes a renewed vision of teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) through a translanguaging (TL) stance, grounded in critical sociolinguistic inquiry and embodied practice. A TL theory of language asserts an activist agenda to dismantle mono/lingualism, inviting a more dynamic and expansive view of…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Deroo, Matthew R.; Ponzio, Christina M. – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2023
Drawing upon tenets of Critical Multilingual Language Awareness (CMLA), we analyzed multimodal compositions created by preservice teachers (PSTs) from two institutions to investigate their meaning-making at the nexus of language, identity, and power. Through analysis of PSTs' multimodal compositions, reflective writing about their coursework, and…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Metalinguistics, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs
Lewis, Mark C. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Whether or not we are teachers, all of us must make sense of language. In doing so, we encounter representations of language, implicit or explicit descriptions which shift over time and are always tied to social and political interests. Teachers' work necessarily depends on these descriptions, which are deeply embedded within their…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Social Influences, Political Attitudes, Language Skills
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Sophocleous, Andry – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2013
The complex notion of the public/private distinction of social spheres has not been systematically investigated in sociolinguistics; particularly in the case of bidialectal kindergarten age children and how they construct their social lives around this distinction in a public environment such as that of school. No simple continuum can clearly…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Sociolinguistics, Language Usage, Language Variation
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Sophocleous, Andry; Wilks, Clarissa – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2010
This study investigates language use and language attitudes in state kindergarten education in Cyprus. Kindergarten education is the primary setting where Greek-Cypriots learn to employ the standard variety on a systematic basis. Consequently, the context of kindergarten education is a principal setting for examining language attitudes and…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Language Variation, Language Attitudes, Standard Spoken Usage