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Green, Crystal; Pappa, Sotiria – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2021
English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teacher educators play a key role in the development of university-based teacher education and the preparation of preservice EFL teachers. However, the professional agency of EFL teacher educators in developing their work remains understudied. Employing a Vygotskian sociocultural theoretical perspective, this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Caroline T. Spurgin – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Experiences preservice teachers (PTs) have in their preparation programs can directly impact their use of effective and just pedagogy in the classroom (Darling-Hammond, 2000; Tolbert, 2015; Stoddart, Pinal, Latzke, and Canaday, 2002; Bravo, Mosqueda, Solis and Stoddart, 2014). However, researchers in the field of Education have struggled to make…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Science Instruction, Longitudinal Studies, Discourse Analysis
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Kaplun, Catherine – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2019
Children's views have often been supplementary to those of adults in research on children's lives. With growing awareness of the Rights of the Child, children are being engaged as experts in their own lives, that is, young people who have valid perspectives on the things that matter and are important to them. In this study, a draw-write-tell…
Descriptors: Freehand Drawing, Childrens Rights, Sociocultural Patterns, School Readiness
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Wang, Ying – SAGE Open, 2021
This article focuses on authenticity of second language identity which has been at issue. Previous research of the authenticity of second language identity has revealed that second language identity may be inauthentic due to the impact from social context and the individual's competence and desires. The discussion in this article aims at exploring…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Sociocultural Patterns
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van Compernolle, Rémi A.; Henery, Ashlie – Language Teaching Research, 2015
This article explores the development of pedagogical content knowledge in relation to one teacher's experience in learning to engage in a Vygotskian approach to teaching second language (L2) pragmatics known as "concept-based pragmatics instruction" (CBPI). The teacher, Mrs. Hanks, was a PhD candidate in second language acquisition at…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Pragmatics, Second Language Instruction, Concept Formation
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Boreham, Nick; Morgan, Colin – Oxford Review of Education, 2004
The concept of organisational learning has been widely debated and frequently contested by educationalists, but the specific processes and actions which constitute this form of learning have received relatively little research attention. This paper reports a three-year empirical investigation into organisational learning in a large industrial…
Descriptors: Social Structure, Learning Theories, Adult Learning, Learning Processes