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Direct linkRobert Walldén – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2024
Exploring how the information flow of social studies textbook spreads is negotiated in teacher-led interaction, the concern of this study is the conscious and critical use of teaching material in diverse student groups. The study involved a teacher and her Grade 6 students in a school with many migrant language learners. The data was gathered by…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Critical Literacy, Teaching Methods, Textbooks
Yitzhaki, Dafna; Tannenbaum, Michal; Shohamy, Elana – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
This paper reports on a study that examined a Shared Education program recently implemented in Israel based on the Northern Ireland model. Sixth-grade children from two schools -- one Jewish and one Arab, who study in separate education systems and have very limited contacts with one another -- met to learn English (as an additional language)…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Ferguson, Peter – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Beginning in April 2020, the Japanese government continued its English education language policy reform by introducing foreign language instruction as an academic subject for Grade 5 and Grade 6 students. The purpose of this study was to investigate how stakeholders across the education system have contended with policy creation, policy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Walldén, Robert – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2022
This contribution explores how subject positions and perspectives are negotiated in the discursive practices of teaching social studies. The study involved a teacher and a group of second-language learners in Grade 6, the data being gathered by observations, voice recordings, and collection of teaching materials throughout seven weeks. The…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Language Minorities, Grade 6, Second Language Learning
Download full textBasterrechea, María; Gallardo-del-Puerto, Francisco – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2020
A considerable body of research within the interaction framework (Long, 1996) has centred on the language-related episodes (LREs) which occur when learners topicalize a specific linguistic item while they are engaged in meaning-focused tasks. Several studies have shown that the production of LREs may be influenced by the proficiency level of the…
Descriptors: Content and Language Integrated Learning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Sociocultural Patterns
Pessoa, Silvia; Hendry, Heather; Donato, Richard; Tucker, G. Richard; Lee, Hyewon – Foreign Language Annals, 2007
Although a substantial amount of professional literature argues for the potential benefits of content-based instruction, limited research exists on how this type of instruction actually is appropriated, understood, and carried out in practice by foreign language teachers. This study examines the role of two sixth grade Spanish teachers' discursive…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Teaching Methods, Discourse Analysis, Language Teachers
