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Kultti, Anne; Pramling, Niklas – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2020
In this study, we investigate how professionals in early childhood education (ECE) reason about multilingualism. Empirical data are analyzed in terms of 'traditions of argumentation' which proposes that we cannot argue for something without, explicitly or implicitly, arguing against something else. The analyses use transcribed data from two focus…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Persuasive Discourse
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McEntee-Atalianis, Lisa; Vessey, Rachelle – Language Policy, 2020
Supranational and international organisations have long experienced difficulties in implementing multilingual policies, and this is, in part, due to a lack of activism on language matters by their membership (McEntee-Atalianis forthcoming; Kruse and Ammon, in: Chua (ed) Unintended language planning in a globalising world: multiple levels of…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Multilingualism, Language Attitudes, International Organizations
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Janfada, Mahtab – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2023
This essay presents a decade-long reflective account of resisting (in) and appropriating English that I have experienced as a young, female academic from the Middle East who has been engaged in teaching and researching Academic English pedagogy transnationally. Informed by Bakhtin's philosophy of dialogue and his notions of insided-ness,…
Descriptors: Literacy, English for Academic Purposes, Women Faculty, Second Language Learning
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Assaf, Fatima; Graves, Barbara – Research in Mathematics Education, 2019
Drawing on sociocultural theories, this study considers the multiple resources multilingual children use to communicate mathematically. We engaged with three children and a parent, in order to understand how multilingual children express their mathematical reasoning. The family was given a mathematical problem solving activity designed to…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Learning Theories, Multilingualism, Mathematics Instruction
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Hoffman, Brooke Y. – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2016
On 2 February 2014, an advertisement entitled "It's Beautiful" debuted during Super Bowl XLVIII, which was watched by 111.5 million people in the USA. The Coca-Cola advertisement portrayed people of various ethnicities and was accompanied by "America the Beautiful" sung in nine languages. Using critical discourse analysis, I…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Athletics, Advertising, Television
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Martinez, Ana Herraiz; Hernández, Ariadna Sánchez – English Language Teaching, 2019
The purpose of this study is to investigate the production of pragmatic markers (PMs) by multilingual students in a CLIL context. Previous studies have analyzed pragmatic competence in multilingual settings (e.g., Cenoz, 2003; Martín-Laguna & Alcón-Soler, 2015; Portolés, 2015; Safont & Portolés, 2016). However, to the best of our…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Pragmatics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Lindgren, Eva; Westum, Asbjørg; Outakoski, Hanna; Sullivan, Kirk P.H. – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2017
Sápmi is a geographical area that runs across the Kola Peninsula in Russia to northern Finland, Norway and Sweden. All Sami languages have been going through a rapid language change process and many of the traditional language domains have disappeared during the last decades due to previous national and local language policies. Nevertheless,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geographic Regions, Finno Ugric Languages, Norwegian
Kiliçkaya, Ferit, Ed. – Online Submission, 2016
The 5th International Conference on Language, Literature and Culture has been hosted by Mehmet Akif Ersoy University (Burdur, Turkey), in cooperation with Çankaya University (Ankara, Turkey) and Süleyman Demirel University (Isparta, Turkey). Our main aim has been to provide a forum for discussion, to facilitate integration in these fields, and to…
Descriptors: Literature, Conferences (Gatherings), Figurative Language, Speeches
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Tardy, Christine M. – Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2005
In the academic ranks of schooling, writing tasks move gradually from a focus on the transmission of knowledge to the transformation of knowledge. As a more complex writing task, knowledge-transforming requires writers to engage in the rhetorical act of persuading readers of their work's value, significance, and credibility. At the graduate level,…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Persuasive Discourse, Academic Discourse, English for Academic Purposes