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Direct linkJenny Yang; Seokhee Cho – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2024
In this qualitative case study, we investigated the role of an advanced math curriculum with language scaffolding on the development of geometric and visual-spatial reasoning skills in young mathematically promising English learners (MPELs). Specifically, we examined the effects of providing MPELs with challenging and supportive math curriculum to…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Academically Gifted, Curriculum Implementation, English Language Learners
Download full textCarnow, Anneline J.; Steenkamp, Andries; Ekron, Christélle – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Reading Association of South Africa, 2020
Background: IsiXhosa students enrolled for the BEd Foundation Phase qualification at a university in South Africa failed their first year in identified at-risk subjects, namely Mathematics in Education, Language in Education and Computer Literacy. The students stated the reasons for failure as not understanding the concepts and terms of the…
Descriptors: African Languages, Native Language, Undergraduate Students, Academic Failure
Mark Causapin – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2016
I found the need to explore the difficulties faced by Arabic-speaking English language learners studying mathematics as soon as I moved to the United Arab Emirates. Thus, I began a line of research that aimed to explain and understand these issues and find effective teaching strategies for the students. This case study describes the first research…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Difficulty Level, Word Problems (Mathematics), Mathematics Education
Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaías, Pedro, Ed.; Mascia, Maria Lidia, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2019
These proceedings contain the papers of the 16th International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA 2019), held during November 7-9, 2019, which has been organized by the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) and co-organised by University Degli Studi di Cagliari, Italy.…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Cooperative Learning, Engineering Education, Critical Thinking
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
Erktin, Emine; Akyel, Ayse – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2005
Mathematics educators are concerned about students' lack of ability to translate mathematical word problems into computable forms. Researchers argue that linguistic problems lie at the root of students' difficulties with mathematical word problems. The issue becomes more complicated for bilingual students. It is argued that if students study…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Language Role, Language Acquisition
