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Widing, Lizette; Nilsson, Pernilla; Enochson, Pernilla Granklint – Science Education International, 2022
This study investigated how modeling in chemistry affect second language learners' descriptions of polymeric concepts. The aim was to investigate how chemistry discussions mediated by representations, contribute to second language students' development in the language of chemistry. The study took place in three multilingual upper secondary…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Irby, Beverly J.; Tong, Fuhui; Lara-Alecio, Rafael; Guerrero, Cindy; Guo, Wenhong; Abdelrahman, Nahed; Serrano, Jiniva – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2020
In this study, we analyzed the perceptions of treatment teachers who participated in a randomized controlled trial study which targeted a science-infused literacy intervention, "Let's Talk Science," for first grade English language learner students. Three aspects, including the effectiveness of the intervention, details of instructional…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, English Language Learners
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Coxhead, Averil; Boutorwick, T. J. – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2018
This article focuses on vocabulary in the context of English-medium instruction at an international high school in Germany. Longitudinal testing was carried out using the Vocabulary Levels Test (VLT) (Nation, 1983; Schmitt, Schmitt, & Clapham, 2001), with 468 participants tested on entry to their first year of secondary school (Grade 6, aged…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Vocabulary Development, Computational Linguistics, English (Second Language)
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Ramirez, Andrés; Sembiante, Sabrina F.; de Oliveira, Luciana C. – Bilingual Research Journal, 2018
A comparative lexicogrammatical and logicosemantic systemic functional analysis of two third-grade science curricular units on the topic of "matter" written in Spanish is presented. One of these curricular units, translated from an English textbook, or "mirror text," is used in dual language programs (Spanish-English) in the…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Translation, Textbooks, English (Second Language)
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Temli Durmus, Yeliz – International Journal of Instruction, 2016
The purpose of this study is to determine elementary school teachers' and school principals' views on physical learning environments of schools where teachers are expected to implement the constructivist philosophy/approach. In this qualitative study, the researcher interviewed 48 elementary school teachers and 6 school administrators working in…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Elementary School Teachers
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Shumbusho, George N.; Banda, Felix – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2010
Kiswahili is the medium of instruction in Tanzania for 7 years of primary education and thereafter, English takes over at secondary and tertiary levels. However, there has been a debate about the efficacy of English in Tanzania's education system with some researchers recommending a switch to Kiswahili as a way to ameliorate the situation. By…
Descriptors: African Languages, Language Planning, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
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Urmeneta, Cristina Escobar – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2013
This case study is part of a larger project which aims to determine the usefulness and validity of a model of a pre-service content and language integrated learning (CLIL) teacher education programme inserted in a Master's degree, whose main pedagogical option is to achieve teacher empowerment through cycles of collaborative teaching and shared…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Content Analysis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Lynch, Collin F., Ed.; Merceron, Agathe, Ed.; Desmarais, Michel, Ed.; Nkambou, Roger, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2019
The 12th iteration of the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2019) is organized under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society in Montreal, Canada. The theme of this year's conference is EDM in Open-Ended Domains. As EDM has matured it has increasingly been applied to open-ended and ill-defined tasks…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Analysis, Information Retrieval, Content Analysis