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Geraldine Caleta; Elizabeth Carrington; Natasha Pullen – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2024
This article presents a story of practice regarding how a primary school addressed the issue of supporting English as an additional language or dialect (EAL/D) learners to communicate and reason in mathematics. A shared understanding across the school uncovered teachers have a critical role in supporting EAL/D learners and their acquisition and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Task Analysis
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Rita Yeboah; Kwaku Darko Amponsah; Priscilla Commey Mintah; John Sedofia; Phyllis Bernice Kwarteng Donkor (Opare) – Education 3-13, 2025
This research explores how primary school teachers use games to enhance pupils' learning and development of conceptual knowledge. The study employs an illustrative case study design; data was collected through interviews with thirty (30) teachers who were selected using purposive sampling technique. Twenty teachers had some knowledge of game-based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Game Based Learning, Teacher Attitudes, Mathematics Instruction
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Brenda Sarmiento-Quezada; Jorge L. Solís – International Journal of Multicultural Education, 2025
This case study explores how bilingual teacher candidates (BTCs) in a Texas dual language teacher education program reflect on their mathematics teaching experiences through a translingual, transcultural, and transdisciplinary lens. By analyzing bilingual teacher narratives, the study investigates how translanguaging and reported speech shape…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Native Language, Language Usage, Second Language Learning
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Marco A. Bravo; Eduardo Mosqueda; Kip Téllez – TESOL Journal, 2025
Providing instruction in a student's home language through bilingual education has proven to be academically beneficial for multilingual learners (MLLs). The present study contributes to this literature by examining the possibilities and limits of a professional development program (Mathematics and Language Literacy Integration [MALLI] in Dual…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Mathematics Instruction, Language Proficiency, Spanish
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Khalo, Xolani; Adu, Emmanuel Olusola; Olawale, Babawande Emmanuel – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2022
This study examined the relationship between language difficulties and learner's errors in financial mathematics, and it employed a quantitative research approach using a case study design. The population for the study consisted of all grade 10 mathematical literacy (ML) learners from three selected schools in East London District, from which 40…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Case Studies, Numeracy, Mathematics Instruction
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Zahner, William; Wynn, Lynda – Mathematical Thinking and Learning: An International Journal, 2023
Learning trajectory (LT) research in mathematics education has shaped both instructional materials and assessments. But, the body of LT research has also been critiqued for not adequately considering equity and addressing student diversity. This study begins to fill this gap by characterizing the reasoning of 23 multilingual students who…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Teaching Methods, Learning Trajectories, Multilingualism
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I, Ji-Yeong – School Science and Mathematics, 2019
Implementing mathematically challenging tasks is difficult for teachers when working with emergent bilinguals because cognitively demanding tasks in mathematics commonly have high language demand. Currently, inadequate teacher preparation for teaching emergent bilinguals is becoming a significant concern in the United States as this population of…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Instruction, Difficulty Level
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Cho, Seonhee; Lee, Hea-Jin; Herner-Patnode, Leah – Journal of Urban Mathematics Education, 2022
Calls for "mathematics for all" or "mathematics for social justice" bring light to the importance of equity issues within and through mathematics education. Employing the theoretical perspectives of equity and social justice for mathematics education, and the intersection of language, culture, and mathematics, this study…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Mathematics Instruction, Equal Education, Social Justice
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Castellón, Libni B.; Kitchen, Richard; Matute, Karla – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2022
This paper focuses on Emergent bilinguals (EBs) who traditionally face unequal opportunities to learn mathematics, harming their identities. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate how a fifth grade teacher cultivated the development of her EBs' mathematical identities by giving them opportunities to participate in cognitively demanding…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Teaching Methods, Bilingualism, Mathematics Education
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Metlí, Akin; Akis, Dinçer – Latin American Journal of Content and Language Integrated Learning, 2022
Limited studies investigate the high school teachers' challenges and strategies while teaching science and mathematics in English as the target language through the content and language integrated learning (CLIL) approach. Hence, this study aimed to investigate the challenges that science and math teachers encounter and the strategies they employ…
Descriptors: Barriers, Educational Strategies, Advanced Placement Programs, Content and Language Integrated Learning
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Young-Loveridge, Jenny – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2014
This paper focuses on selected findings from a study that explored the use of multiplication and division with 34 five- and six-year-old children from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds. The focus of instructional tasks was on working with groups of ten to support the understanding of place value. Findings from relevant assessment tasks…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Cultural Differences, English (Second Language)
Willaford, Sherrod Damon – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of a SIOP-based training on lesson preparation and delivery of elementary mathematics for English language learners. In a qualitative case study of six elementary teachers, data sources included videotaped observations of classrooms, lesson plans, and semi-structured interviews. Data…
Descriptors: Elementary School Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, English Language Learners, Elementary School Teachers
Nordmeyer, Jon, Ed.; Barduhn, Susan, Ed. – Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc. (TESOL), 2010
The definition of "English language classroom" is changing. When students have the opportunity to learn content and language at the same time, disciplinary boundaries overlap. Teachers are rethinking how they design courses, plan lessons, assess students, and collaborate with colleagues to support student learning and facilitate their…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Bilingual Students, Minicourses
Sánchez, Inmaculada Arnedillo, Ed.; Isaías, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
These proceedings contain the papers of the 10th International Conference on Mobile Learning 2014, which was organised by the International Association for Development of the Information Society, in Madrid, Spain, February 28-March 2, 2014. The Mobile Learning 2014 International Conference seeks to provide a forum for the presentation and…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Technology Uses in Education