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Shannon Sampson; Susan Cantrell; Kristen Perry; Olukemi Kolawole – TESOL Journal, 2025
This study explores the validity of the Culturally Responsive Instruction Observation Protocol (CRIOP) an instrument that measures the implementation of culturally responsive instruction (CRI) in K-8 classrooms with multilingual students. The validity study uses a Rasch measurement approach. With strong findings from analyses, including…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Classroom Observation Techniques, Kindergarten, Elementary School Students
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Shiang-Yi Lin; Kevin Kien Hoa Chung – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2024
In multicultural education, empathy has been regarded as an essential teacher disposition that enables teachers to better understand culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students through perspective-taking. However, less is known about the mechanism that underlies how empathy fosters teachers' competence in supporting CLD students, i.e.,…
Descriptors: Correlation, Empathy, Cultural Awareness, Teacher Competencies
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So Jung Kim – Social Studies, 2025
Despite the increasing emphasis on social studies in Early Childhood Education, there has been a serious paucity of empirical studies on how culturally and linguistically diverse children develop their emergent understanding on their identities and citizenships in different racial and cultural surroundings. The main purpose of this article is to…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Citizenship, Ethnicity, Self Concept
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Derrick Adjei Kankam – NECTFL Review, 2025
As language classrooms become increasingly diverse, educators face a daily challenge of navigating linguistic, cultural, and learning differences among students from different cultures and backgrounds. The diverse language environment, which many educators perceive to be challenging to manage, also presents valuable opportunities for implementing…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Best Practices, Cultural Differences, Second Language Learning
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Yu Wu; Huan Gao – Journal of Teaching and Learning, 2025
In the context of global educational exchange, this study explores the experiences of Chinese teachers temporarily teaching Mandarin Chinese in United States K-12 schools. Using case-study methodology, this research examines the professional challenges and learning experiences of these transnational Chinese language teachers. Findings reveal that…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Faculty Development
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Kuhn, Jocelyn; Albers, Craig A. – Journal of Applied School Psychology, 2022
Objectives: This study examined the effectiveness of Sound Partners, an evidence-based early literacy intervention program, with culturally and linguistically diverse elementary students within an applied Response to Intervention (RTI) system. Method: Participants (n = 11) with a range of English language proficiency (ELP) who spoke English,…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Cultural Differences
Elish-Piper, Laurie; Matthews, Mona W.; Risko, Victoria J. – Guilford Press, 2022
Many standard reading assessment approaches fail to capture the strengths and needs of students from diverse sociocultural, linguistic, and academic backgrounds. From expert authors, this book guides educators in planning and conducting meaningful, equitable assessments that empower K-5 teachers and students, inform responsive instruction, and…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Standardized Tests, Student Diversity, Second Language Learning
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Hongboontri, Chantarath; Liao, Yiting – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2021
This mixed-methods study aims to explore the patterns of teacher and their effects on teachers' lives and work. To do so, the researchers went into one international school in Thailand and requested participation from 25 foreign language (FL) teachers. All the participants completed and returned a questionnaire and participated in one-on-one…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, International Schools, Teaching Methods, Teacher Attitudes
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Jiang, Shuaipu – Commission for International Adult Education, 2022
Classroom instruction in China and in the United States have sharp differences. Typically, constructivist learning theory shapes American classroom instruction whereas Confucian educational culture shapes Chinese classroom instruction. Furthermore, typically, Chinese classrooms adopt a direct instructional approach whereas American classrooms…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Constructivism (Learning), Confucianism, Asian Culture
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Burgin, Ximena D.; Daniel, Mayra C.; Riley, Carolyn F. – TESL-EJ, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic has propelled educational communities across the world into emergency remote models of instruction. This study documented the perceptions of 11 teachers from the State of Illinois regarding the quality of online instruction in their schools and their unexpected challenges from March of 2019-2020 academic year. Three points of…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Distance Education, Educational Change
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Eliyahu-Levi, Dolly; Ganz-Meishar, Michal – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2019
The purpose of the study is to describe the teacher's personal connection with parents as an intermediary factor between cultures and to examine the implications for the future of the migrant group in the receiving society. The study is a qualitative study based on the phenomenological approach and involved five teachers working with African…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Parent Teacher Cooperation, Immigrants, Cultural Differences
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Gallagher, Colleen – Language and Education, 2016
Recognizing the importance of academic language for students' success in schools, this article reports on an investigation of how narrative-focused literacy events in the classroom provide opportunities for academic language socialization. Data were collected from one public elementary school in a major metropolitan area in the Mid-Atlantic region…
Descriptors: Socialization, Academic Discourse, Classroom Communication, Kindergarten
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Keary, Anne; Kirkby, Jane – TESOL in Context, 2017
Assessment of young children from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds holds the potential to provide important insights into learning. Two researchers investigated an Allied Health screening program that was conducted in three kindergartens in a disadvantaged area of outer Melbourne, Australia. Drawing on narrative inquiry…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Cultural Differences, Kindergarten
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Lartec, Jane K.; Belisario, Anastacia M.; Bendanillo, Jamaica P.; Binas-o, Hanni K.; Bucang, Novefirst O.; Cammagay, Jan Lorie W. – IAFOR Journal of Language Learning, 2014
The use of mother tongue in teaching in a multilingual setting affects the way pupils learn. A melting pot and the educational center of the North, Baguio City, Philippines demands teaching strategies that not only adapt to the interplay of the different cultures and languages but give importance to them, too. Specifically, this paper analyzed the…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Native Language, Language of Instruction, Multilingualism
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Cheatham, Gregory A.; Jimenez-Silva, Margarita – Childhood Education, 2012
Parent-educator partnerships are an important element of effective early childhood, K-12, and special education programs (Dunst, Trivette, & Snyder, 2000; Tabors, 2008). While early childhood and other classrooms in the United States are increasingly diverse, the teachers in those classrooms are unlikely to be of the same linguistic or cultural…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Immigrants, Kindergarten, Cultural Background
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