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Shiyi Shen – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Language teachers in China often use picturebooks as complimentary teaching materials to standard textbooks for language instruction. However, research shows that current applications of picturebooks in Chinese English as a foreign language (EFL) classrooms mainly focus on helping students develop linguistic competence, with little attention on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Zhou, Xiaozhou – ELT Journal, 2023
Translanguaging and codeswitching are frequently employed in second/foreign language classrooms. Though the differences between these two practices have been examined from a conceptual perspective, the potential of translanguaging as a pedagogical resource has not been empirically addressed. This article opens with a concise comparison of…
Descriptors: High School Students, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Yaron Matras; Katie Harrison; Leonie Elisa Gaiser; Stephanie Connor – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Drawing on interviews with staff from Language Supplementary Schools (LSS) in Manchester (UK), we discuss the emergence of makeshift ideologies whereby actors seek to legitimise choices and policies of heritage language transmission in the diaspora setting. Actors discuss the use of regional and vernacular varieties, the consideration given to…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Community Schools, Language Attitudes, Language Maintenance
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Sohn, Bong-gi; dos Santos, Pedro; Lin, Angel M. Y. – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2022
Arising in Europe in the early 1990s, content and language integrated learning (CLIL) has become a popular educational approach. CLIL involves a dual focus on content and language learning with an additional language used as the medium of instruction. Although CLIL has received much attention and spread widely around the world, there is limited…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning
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Coffey, Simon; Patel, Daksha – Language Learning Journal, 2023
In this paper, we use the lens of embodied language cognition and intersemiosis to argue for the importance of developing creative approaches to language work in classroom settings and we cite as an example some activities from a workshop that was developed for modern foreign languages (MFL) trainee teachers in London…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries, Creative Teaching
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Guerrettaz, Anne Marie – Modern Language Journal, 2021
Materials use is a critical yet poorly understood dynamic of language classrooms. This study examines 'materials-in-action,' meaning how materials shape classroom interaction and activity, in a beginning-level French-as-a-foreign-language classroom. The conceptual framework, 'pedagogical ergonomics,' similarly centers on materials-in-action, and…
Descriptors: French, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Silvia Frank Schmid – International Journal for Lesson and Learning Studies, 2024
Purpose: The paper reports how lesson study helped to make the learning of students with limited English competencies visible in "Content and Language Integrated Learning" (CLIL). Design/methodology/approach: The two lesson study cycles took place in a Swiss primary school with a focus on three case pupils each with heterogeneous…
Descriptors: Content and Language Integrated Learning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Barnes, Melissa; Tour, Ekaterina – Literacy, 2023
While digital multimodal composing, underpinned by a critical literacies approach, provides opportunities for students to make informed semiotic choices and voice concerns about social issues, there is limited research exploring how digital multimodal composing is employed to interrogate and challenge the entanglements of language, immigration…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5
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Ali Fuad Selvi; Elif Saracoglu; Eray Çaliskan – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2023
Over the years, we have been witnessing the burgeoning of interdisciplinary interest in the use of ideological discourses and enactment of representations through linguistic and semiotic choices in positioning, (re)constructing and expressing identities. In this picture, there is an evident paucity of research investigating the kinds of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Instructional Materials
Zhaozhe Wang – ProQuest LLC, 2021
"Generation Z" multilingual writers are caught up in a globalized/globalizing and superdiverse linguistic and cultural contact zone as well as a neoliberal political and institutional environment. To understand how they inhabit their idiosyncratic literate worlds and practice their differences, I aligned myself with an ethnographic case…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Semiotics, Literacy, Age Groups
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Kao, Yu-Ting – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2023
This study explores teachers' perceptions and practices about the translanguaging approach in CLIL elementary and secondary school contexts in Taiwan. It first investigates 422 in-service teachers' perspectives toward teachers' and students' use of (1) a native language; (2) non-verbal behaviors; and (3) other meaning-making signs in the language…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Language Usage, Content and Language Integrated Learning, Second Language Learning
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Kelly, Ronan; Hou, Heng – Language and Education, 2022
The use of machine translation is increasingly prevalent in language education and social communication. This study explored how multilingual pupils who are learning English as an additional language (EAL) use machine translation within their formal education and everyday lives. A translanguaging framework was employed to understand the ways in…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Translation, Computational Linguistics, English (Second Language)
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Wang, Huan – SAGE Open, 2022
Multimodal composing is the construction of meanings through a combination of semiotic modes such as visual, audio, and textual to create multimodal texts. Studies have investigated the application of multimodal composing in the English language, in content area classrooms, and within various educational ESL and EFL contexts. However, the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Intensive Language Courses
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Thorne, Steven L.; Hellermann, John; Jakonen, Teppo – Modern Language Journal, 2021
Integrating concepts and techniques from ethnomethodology and sociomaterialism, this article investigates the observable material processes involving human action and place-based contexts of language use enabled by locative media. The focal pedagogical intervention utilized mobile augmented reality (AR) activities, the development of which was…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Video Technology, Place Based Education
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Peichang (Emily) He; Angel M. Y. Lin – Language Awareness, 2024
This article drew on the recent dynamic, distributed view of "translanguaging and flows" and the New Materiality view of meaning making to explore content and language integrated learning (CLIL) activities in an English-Medium-Instruction (EMI) secondary Science classroom. Fine-grained analysis of the multilingual and multimodal…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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