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Schneider, Cindy – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2018
Understanding dialect loss is informative for language loss, yet dialect attrition remains relatively understudied. Suru Kavian is an endangered dialect of Pentecost Island, Vanuatu. Drawing from language recordings, interviews, and observations, this paper explores the relationship between linguistic ideologies about Suru Kavian (what members of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Skill Attrition, Language Maintenance, Dialects
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Williams, Gwendolyn M.; Case, Rod E.; Reinhart, Erik D. – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2018
This article describes a narrative study exploring the challenges that international teaching assistants (ITAs) encounter when using humor in North American university classrooms. Twenty participants were recruited from twelve teaching fields. Each ITA participated in two interviews and a videotaped teaching observation. The participants talked…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Humor, Higher Education, Interviews
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Nasrollahi Shahri, Mohammad Naseh – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2018
Situated in an English as a foreign language (EFL) context, this study navigates the intersection of language learner identity and foreign language engagement. Specifically, drawing on the concept of voice (Canagarajah, 2013; Johnstone, 1996; Kramsch, 2003), Bakhtin's (1981) theory of language, and the notion of investment (Darvin & Norton,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Usage
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Mestad, Idar; Kolstø, Stein Dankert – Research in Science Education, 2017
This study aims to characterize a group of students' preliminary oral explanations of a scientific phenomenon produced as part of their learning process. The students were encouraged to use their own wordings to test out their own interpretation of observations when conducting practical activities. They presented their explanations orally in the…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Scientific Principles, Science Instruction, Observation
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Abrams, Sandra Schamroth; Lammers, Jayne C. – Teachers College Record, 2017
Background: Focusing on ways a common endeavor brings people together, Gee offered the concept of affinity spaces, which suggests that open participation without exclusion or membership is possible. This theory contrasts with Lave and Wenger's communities of practice, which called attention to situated, hierarchical participatory practices.…
Descriptors: Group Dynamics, Video Games, Interpersonal Attraction, Communities of Practice
Montgomery, LaQuita Spivey – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Little research has been devoted to the study of parent centers serving culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) families of children with disabilities. Community Parent Resource Centers (CPRCs), provide information and emotional supports to families from traditionally underserved communities. The traditionally underserved for the most part are…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Disabilities, Cultural Differences, Language Usage
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Canals, Laia – Research-publishing.net, 2017
This chapter sets out various methods for gathering important data on the language uses of participants in a research project. These methods imply interaction between students, teachers and researchers. They are used in the design of research projects based on action research, ethnography or conversational analysis, this being the case with the…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Research Tools, Language Usage, Research Projects
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Axelrod, Ysaaca – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2017
The purpose of this ethnographic case study was to study the language development of 4-year-old emergent bilinguals in a bilingual (Spanish/English) Head Start classroom with flexible language practices. Data were collected throughout the 10-month school year by visiting the classroom 2-3 times per week. Data include: field notes (observations and…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Language Usage, Child Language, Emergent Literacy
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Amir, Dana; Shoshana, Avihu – Critical Studies in Education, 2018
This article examines the interpretations of high school students from different socioeconomic locations (in terms of socioeconomic class and ethnicity) with regard to the text "Brown Morning," used as a didactic tool for antiracism education within the framework of Civics courses. The research findings uncover differences in the…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Attitudes, Civics, Socioeconomic Status
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Mochizuki, Naoko – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2017
Needs analysis (NA) plays a significant role in developing tasks that create opportunities for natural language use in classrooms. Preemptive NA, however, does not necessarily predict the contingently emerging interpersonal and social variables which influence learners and teachers' behaviours. These unpredictable variables often lead to a gap…
Descriptors: Needs Assessment, Collaborative Writing, Learning Activities, Language Usage
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Dávila, Liv T. – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2017
The field of heritage language (HL) education is a rapidly growing area of educational linguistics research and pedagogy. While considerable research has looked at identity in relation to HL learning in adolescents and adults, this article focuses on the identities and language attitudes of young HL learners of Arabic and Somali at an elementary…
Descriptors: Heritage Education, Multilingualism, Language Attitudes, Language Usage
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Stacy, Jen; Aguilar, Jodi – Multicultural Education, 2018
Mobile technology is now ubiquitous in families' lives and, as such, provides fertile ground for organic technology learning embedded within everyday home practices, like oral storytelling. This article explores the experiences of three Latinx women participating in a family digital storytelling program held at an East Los Angeles Head Start…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Waddington, Julie; Coto Bernal, Sandra; Siqués Jofré, Carina – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2018
Despite the growing tendency to introduce a foreign language in early years settings, little guidance is provided for practitioners in government steering documents or in the published literature. This article aims to bridge this gap by presenting a study which considers the importance of deploying the holistic approaches used in early years…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Children, Correlation
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Ross, Helen – British Journal of Special Education, 2017
This article explores teachers' experiences of dyslexia and classroom interventions via lesson observations and semi-structured interviews. These experiences were analysed through a Bourdieusien lens, based on Jenkins's "levels of interaction", to delineate power relationships inherent in classroom interactions, teachers' interactions…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Intervention, Observation, Semi Structured Interviews
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Brooks, Maneka Deanna – Journal of Literacy Research, 2017
This article examines the alternative English spelling practices of a student who is considered to be a "long-term English learner." It draws on a theoretical framework that integrates a social perspective on spelling with a rejection of idealized conceptions of bilingualism. The analyzed English spellings presented in this article were…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Spelling, Bilingualism, Adolescents
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