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Mary J. Schleppegrell; Mina Hernandez Garcia; Sally AL-Banna; Chauncey Monte-Sano – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2025
We report on U.S. middle school Arabic-speaking students who were agentive in translanguaging for disciplinary learning during social studies inquiry and suggest specific ways that students' academic learning and bilingual development can be supported through translanguaging in the context of English-dominant classrooms. We engaged in design-based…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Code Switching (Language), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Hernandez Garcia, Mina; Schleppegrell, Mary J.; Sobh, Hasna; Monte-Sano, Chauncey – Phi Delta Kappan, 2023
Translanguaging supports emergent bilingual students to draw on languages they bring to the classroom to learn, even as they develop English. This practice also supports schools to develop stronger partnerships with students' communities. Mina Hernandez Garcia, Mary J. Schleppegrell, Hasna Sobh, and Chauncey Monte-Sano report on a…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Native Language
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Wilmes, Sara E. D.; Siry, Christina – Science Education, 2018
Language learners participating in inquiry-based science instruction are often faced with the challenge of interacting in a language they have not yet mastered. With this challenge at the fore, this study uses interaction ritual theory to examine a plurilingual student's participation in inquiry-based science. Interaction ritual analysis of the…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Language of Instruction
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Zhao, Hong – International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, 2022
The study reports how "A Glimpse of China," a cultural course that had been typically conducted offline for cultural immersion, adapted to the COVID-19-imposed challenges of an online transition. The teaching team sought the guidance of social constructivism and the WisCom Framework, made adaptations in the instructional design, assessed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Cultural Education, Asian Culture
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Haneda, Mari; Wells, Gordon – Language and Education, 2008
It has been increasingly recognised that classroom discourse plays an important social role as a semiotic mediator of knowledge construction with respect to curriculum content. The assumption is that through active verbal engagement with a topic of interest, students are enabled to master the modes of language use associated with schooling--the…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Second Language Learning, Position Papers, Intermediate Grades
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers