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Yanhong Liu; Lin An; Shan Chen – SAGE Open, 2024
Environmental issue is one of the public concerns pertaining to human welfare. English language education is supposed to take its part to contribute to the sustainable development. In this study, a corpus comprising 12 series of English language textbooks used in Chinese universities (48 volumes/books) was constructed to examine the extent to…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Sustainability, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Yanhong Liu; Stephen May; Lawrence Jun Zhang – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
China has had an ambivalent policy for the learning and teaching of English as a foreign language (EFL) over much of its history. The explicit and implicit implementation of language policy has had a significant impact on the content of EFL textbooks and the ideologies underlying them. However, studies exploring such ideologies remain sensitive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Hameed, Ansa; Jabeen, Ismat; Khan, Aalia Mehar – Arab World English Journal, 2020
The need for transformation has led kingdom to envision and encode the Saudi Vision 2030 document; it is not merely an idealistic divination but a manuscript with an appropriate plan to accomplish its anticipated economic and social goals. In fact, planning is a critical factor in the document, which shapes it as a discourse of realization and…
Descriptors: Semantics, Discourse Analysis, Strategic Planning, Economic Development
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Zheltukhina, Marina R.; Vikulova, Larisa G.; Serebrennikova, Evgenia F.; Gerasimova, Svetlana A.; Borbotko, Liudmila A. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
Interest to axiosphere as the sphere of values and its correlation with the ever-progressive noosphere as sphere of knowledge of a person is due to comprehension of the modern period in the evolution of society. The aim of the article is to describe an axiological aspect of the research of identity as an element of human and language universes.…
Descriptors: Correlation, Content Analysis, French, Russian
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Yudina, Natalia V.; Melnichuk, Marina V.; Seliverstova, Oksana A. – Journal of Social Studies Education Research, 2020
The study focuses on defining specifics of the language policy and planning in the Russian Federation, the USA, and China within the modern political discourse of the 21st century by means of exploring materials from Russian, American and Chinese media. The empirical base of the study included statistical and sociological data describing the…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Cross Cultural Studies, Public Policy, Political Attitudes
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Chang, Liang; Chen, Qianqian; Yang, Yuqin; Qian, Xuan – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2019
This study investigated whether elementary students could collectively advance a knowledge-building discourse through judgments of promisingness and epistemic reflection. Supported by the Promising Idea Tool and its accompanying pedagogical design, 32 grade six students were involved in judging the promisingness of their community ideas, refining…
Descriptors: Reflection, Epistemology, Elementary School Students, Teaching Methods
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Atabekova, Anastasia A.; Gorbatenko, Rimma G.; Shoustikova, Tatyana V.; Radic, Nebojša – Journal of Social Studies Education Research, 2019
The research aimsto explore the cognitive-semantic structure of the above child rights phenomenon through the language analysis, and compare the perceptions of different stakeholders as target audiences with regard to diverse formats of the Convention contents and its essence representation. The research data combines academic literature on the…
Descriptors: Children, Childrens Rights, Foreign Countries, International Law
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Momanu, Mariana; Popa, Nicoleta Laura; Samoila, Magda-Elena – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2018
Starting from the state of conceptual diversity, semantic ambiguity, and poor connection of family life education practices to current policies and theoretical models in Romania, our study aims at understanding the underlying meanings of these issues by recourse to the history of approaches in the field. To this purpose, we carried out a…
Descriptors: Family Life, Educational History, Primary Sources, Foreign Countries
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Oskoz, Ana; Gimeno-Sanz, Ana – Language Learning & Technology, 2019
This study examines the linguistic resources by which foreign language (L2) learners express their ideological positions in online discussions taking place in a telecollaborative encounter during one semester. More specifically, the study attempts to decipher how L2 learners discuss and argue their points of view regarding their first culture,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computer Mediated Communication, Student Attitudes
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Forman, Ross – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2014
The global textbook has an enormous influence upon what is taught in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classrooms. As Akbari has noted, our era is not simply "postmethod", but one of "textbook-defined practice". What happens, then, when a global EFL textbook is selected for use with Year 1 students at a Thai university? How…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Mu, Jin; Stegmann, Karsten; Mayfield, Elijah; Rose, Carolyn; Fischer, Frank – International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2012
Research related to online discussions frequently faces the problem of analyzing huge corpora. Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies may allow automating this analysis. However, the state-of-the-art in machine learning and text mining approaches yields models that do not transfer well between corpora related to different topics. Also,…
Descriptors: Semantics, Classification, Syntax, Coding
Zhao, Ying – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study aims at investigating meaning negotiation and communication strategy use among nonnative speakers of English in text chat and videoconferencing. Learners in a Chinese and a Japanese university participated in text chats and videoconferences to discuss culture-related topics using English as the common language. Text chat scripts and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Communication Strategies, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language)
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Niewiara, Aleksandra – Language Sciences, 2010
The paper investigates Polish punk and hip hop (rap) song lyrics broken down into frequency lists. In an analysis inspired by MacLaury's view of categorization, the construals of punk and hip hop worldviews are shown to vary in the distance of the observer from the world, the width of the viewing frame, as well as the granularity and density of…
Descriptors: Singing, Form Classes (Languages), Polish, Popular Culture
Harris, Ilene B. – 1982
Descriptions of educational practice offer an array of important, but typically hidden dimensions of meaning which provide potentially rich resources for understanding the practices. This paper illustrates: (1) how analysis, interpretations, and assessments interpenetrate what appear to be descriptions and suggest how readers can tease out these…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Content Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Educational Practices
Lazaraton, Anne – IRAL, 1992
A contextual analysis approach was used to explore the semantic, syntactic, and discourse properties of the conjunction "and." Results are discussed in terms of phrasal coordination, and it is shown that "and" occurs with a high frequency in the spoken/written comparison narrative texts examined, with a density of 26.4 to 66.3 tokens per 1,000…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Conjunctions, Content Analysis, Discourse Analysis
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