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Hoa Thi Mai Nguyen; Hang Thi Thu Nguyen; Xuesong Gao; Trang Hong Hoang; Sue Starfield – Language and Education, 2024
In this paper, we report on an international collaborative project designed to address the professional development needs of Vietnamese teachers for the implementation of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL). We collected data on a group of CLIL Vietnamese teachers and leaders through online interviews. Drawing on Cultural-Historical…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, Foreign Countries, International Cooperation, Learning Processes
Han Zheng; Mark Barba Pacheco; Julie C. Brown – Language and Education, 2025
Our study examines the scaffolding strategies employed by secondary biology teachers to support multilingual learners (MLs) in engaging with Science and Engineering Practices (SEPs). Rooted in sociocultural theory, we focus on the integration of academic language in disciplinary practices. Data from video-recorded observations of 12 secondary…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Teaching Methods, Science Instruction, Second Language Instruction
Haomin Zhang; Zhen Hu; Tuoxiong Wang; Jie Sun – Language and Education, 2024
Given that input-based language and literacy environments provide socioculturally-enriched contexts for bilingual and biliteracy acquisition, the current study aims to explore the contribution of early input in various sociocultural contexts to later biliteracy development among college-level Chinese heritage language (CHL) students. A group of…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Linguistic Input, Chinese, Second Language Learning
Repo, Elisa – Language and Education, 2023
Curricular reform requires Finnish schools to be language aware and promote instruction that builds on students' linguistic resources. However, knowledge about students' experiences related thereto remains scarce. To create understanding about linguistic integration in increasingly multilingual schools, this study quantitatively explores the…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Multilingualism, Sociocultural Patterns, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
Foley, Yvonne; Anderson, Charles; Hancock, Jonathan; Conteh, Jean – Language and Education, 2022
While there is now a considerable body of work on teacher identity in the area of language education, much less attention has been given to the question of the extent to which student teachers are enabled to construct identities that are consonant with the opportunities and challenges of current multilingual classrooms. Drawing on a recent…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Sembiante, Sabrina F.; Cavallaro, Christina J.; Troyan, Francis John – Language and Education, 2021
Few studies in language teacher education programs provide insight on how knowledge of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) is developed by teacher candidates to support their metalinguistic awareness and preparation to teach language. Building upon the contributions of Johnson and Byrnes, we combined Halliday's language-based theory of learning…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Linguistic Theory, Sociocultural Patterns, Preservice Teachers
Hu, Jingjing; Gao, Xuesong – Language and Education, 2018
This study explored the processes of utilization of resources in secondary students' self-regulated strategic writing for academic studies in an English as medium of instruction context in Hong Kong. Drawing on multiple data sources collected through the observation of lessons, stimulated recall and semi-structured interviews, the study examined…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Writing Strategies, Underachievement, Second Language Learning
Lo-Philip, Stephanie Wingyan – Language and Education, 2014
Although there has been research on literacy as a sociocultural practice, L2 literacy researchers have yet to incorporate and consider how the material characteristics of a writing system interact with sociocultural factors in shaping literacy practices. Drawing on conceptions of literacy as a sociocultural practice, psycholinguistic and…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Literacy, Second Language Learning, Psycholinguistics
Wei, Li – Language and Education, 2014
Global migration has had significant impact on the traditional configuration of the classroom role set. The language teacher may be teaching a group of learners with highly mixed interests, abilities, learning histories and exposures to the target language, while the language learner may be confronted with so many different models of the target…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Student Diversity
Liu, Yongbing; Hong, Huaqing – Language and Education, 2009
Classroom research has largely focused on an "instructional discourse" in local classroom contexts where teachers and students interact about subject knowledge. Few studies have been conducted, however, to examine "regulative discourse", which is the precondition for the transmission of subject knowledge. In this article,…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Foreign Countries, Teacher Student Relationship, Teaching Methods

Lyle, Sue – Language and Education, 2002
Argues that a transcript of a whole class of primary children who were video-recorded while engaged in a role-play activity provides support for the view that children's learning can be seen as a socio-historically and culturally-constituted dialogical process of meaning making. Draws on Bakhtin's ideas about the power of dialogic engagement to…
Descriptors: Children, Cultural Influences, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students

Hall, Kathy – Language and Education, 2002
Seeks to understand literacy as sociocultural practice and to understand how beliefs about attitudes towards literacy are constructed in and through classroom discourse. Explores what literacy is valued in one multi-ethnic primary classroom and the ways in which the pupils are coming to know and display the version of literacy that counts.…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Ethnography
Cumming-Potvin, Wendy; Renshaw, Peter; van Kraayenoord, Christa – Language and Education, 2003
This paper reports on a sociocultural study conducted in a Catholic primary school in the Australian outback and provides insights into how policy related to Languages Other Than English (LOTE) programmes is implemented in a specific location and interwoven within the literacy practices of children, parents and teachers. A case study that tracked…
Descriptors: Second Language Programs, Sociocultural Patterns, Metalinguistics, Foreign Countries