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Gómez Fernández, Roberto – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2019
Alexis Patterson's paper researches equity in groupwork in the science classroom by looking at micro-interactions. She points to the key features of student voice, student visibility and student authority while addressing the teachers' role in creating a more equitable and productive talk in science classrooms. This forum paper aims at continuing…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Classroom Communication, Science Instruction, Equal Education
Colombo, Laura – Journal of International Students, 2014
It is late at night, after working all day on her postdoctoral research Laura Colombo is trying to wind down while drawing and jotting down thoughts in her notebook. She is in the living room/office of her apartment in Buenos Aires, the city where she was born and left when she was 26 years old to pursue her graduate studies in the United States…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Researchers, Study Abroad, Graduate Study
Friesen, Helen Lepp – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2012
To writing, painting, drawing, and photography as artistic media, the author would like to add teaching as a creative endeavor as well. Especially in a classroom where English is not the first language for many students, the writing teacher needs to be creative with assignments and activities that address nontraditional ways of learning. Her…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Poetry, Writing Teachers, Photography
Chen, Jing – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2011
Lyle F. Bachman is Professor, Department of Applied Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles. He is a past president of the American Association for Applied Linguistics and of the International Language Testing Association. He has published numerous articles and books in the areas of language testing, program evaluation, and second…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Applied Linguistics, Testing, Language Tests
Leask, Betty – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2009
This article argues that improved interactions between home and international students are dependant on the way we use both the formal and the informal curricula to encourage and reward intercultural engagement. It draws on the results of several research studies to present some strategies for facilitating meaningful interaction between students…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, College Students, Interaction, Intercultural Communication
Silver, Rita – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2009
In renewing her TESOL membership for 2008, the author noted that the membership letter stated that TESOL is a "global professional organization for English language educators." This was of particular interest as she prepared for TESOL's Bilingual Education Interest Section (BEIS) 2008 session titled "Imagining Multilingual…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Language Teachers
Jung, Adrian Woo; Stang, Kristin; Ferko, Doreen; Han, Shin-Il – American Secondary Education, 2011
Korean American adolescents may find themselves caught between traditional Korean culture and demands for Americanization. Subsequently this population of students and parents may have very distinct needs in our schools as they are a growing population of students. This commentary discusses important considerations for teachers and administrators…
Descriptors: Korean Culture, Adolescents, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences
Wilhelm von Humboldt and the "Orient": On Edward W. Said's Remarks on Humboldt's Orientalist Studies
Messling, Markus – Language Sciences, 2008
From an epistemological perspective, Wilhelm von Humboldt's studies on the Oriental and East Asian languages and writing systems (Egyptian hieroglyphs, Sanskrit, Chinese, Polynesian) raise the question of his position in the Orientalist discourse of his time. Said [Said, E.W., 1978. "Orientalism. Western Conceptions of the Orient, fourth…
Descriptors: Anthropological Linguistics, Anthropology, Second Language Learning, Language Classification
Pickens, Cortney – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2008
The way in which foreign languages, including the Classics, are taught is evolving. There are those who teach language for literature-based, instrumental purposes only, and those who want to see foreign language education cross boundaries into literature, culture, history, and geography. Foreign language educators have the opportunity to teach…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Matikainen, Tiina; Duffy, Carolyn B. – Forum, 2000
Provides ways of developing students' awareness of cultural patterns among the different cultures of the world. Describes a lesson in which students learn about basic attitudes different cultures have toward three cultural value dimensions: the role of the individual in society, power distance, and time orientation. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Second Language Instruction
Rabin, Lisa M. – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2009
A significant number of community service-learning projects in higher education involve the teaching or tutoring of immigrants in English. As in related service-learning scholarship, these projects are commonly informed by perspectives on cultural difference, social justice, and power relations in U.S. society. Yet while faculty pair their…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Language Role, Ideology, Service Learning

Burns, Anne – TESOL Journal, 2003
Focuses on individual reading practices both inside and outside the classroom. Aimed to reflect trends in the field of new literacy studies that draw on ethnographic accounts of the literacy practices of different groups. Investigated student perceptions of learning experiences in adult migrant English program classrooms. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, English (Second Language), Ethnography, Reading Habits

Miller, Martha LaFollette – ADFL Bulletin, 2001
By putting the foreign language discipline into the context of the opening of the mind that takes place during the study of a foreign language and even more so during study abroad, a case is made for the role of the foreign language educator in teaching tolerance. Highlights efforts at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.(Author/VWL)
Descriptors: College Students, Critical Thinking, Cultural Differences, Higher Education

McCafferty, Steven G. – Reading Research and Instruction, 2002
Suggests adolescent second language speakers of English can better understand the second culture as embedded in the language, and feel more comfortable with expressing their sense of self through language, by discussing language and its use in the contexts of literary texts. Examines elements of the interface between language, culture, and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cultural Differences, Language Role, Language Usage

Sommer, Doris – ADFL Bulletin, 2002
Advocates a new sentimental education that recognizes our migrant condition of double consciousness as a normal outcome of creativity and flexibility that plays between the different languages and cultures. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Creativity, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Higher Education