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Ladwig, James G.; McPherson, Amy – Curriculum Inquiry, 2017
"Ability" is one of the most common concepts underpinning education. Generally, "ability" is central to notions of a meritocratic society. More specifically, schools are allocated the right to define, categorise and label students according to their ability. While there has been ample discussion of the role of ability in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Ability, Teacher Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education
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Kintz, Stephen; Wright, Heather Harris – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2017
Semantic memory is relatively stable across the lifespan (LaBarge, Edwards, & Knesevich, 1986). However, most research has been conducted at the single concept level (LaBarge et al., 1986, Spaniol et al., 2006). Few researchers have examined how semantic knowledge is used in discourse. The purpose of the study, then, was to determine the…
Descriptors: Semantics, Age Differences, Discourse Analysis, Memory
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Plummer, Julia D.; Bower, Corinne A.; Liben, Lynn S. – International Journal of Science Education, 2016
This study investigates the role of perspective-taking skills in how children explain spatially complex astronomical phenomena. Explaining many astronomical phenomena, especially those studied in elementary and middle school, requires shifting between an Earth-based description of the phenomena and a space-based reference frame. We studied 7- to…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Perspective Taking, Children, Spatial Ability
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Asari, Yoko – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2017
Recasts, a type of implicit feedback, is widely used by EFL teachers for improving learners' communicative competence. Research suggests that teachers may use salience enhancement techniques in order to highlight the positive/negative evidence in recasts. This study was conducted to identify types of recasts and examine the relationship between…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Interlanguage, English (Second Language), Language Teachers
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Harris, Karleah; Crabbe, Jordan Jimmy; Harris, Charlene – Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, 2017
This study examines teacher discourse strategies used in kindergarten inquiry-based science learning as part of the Scientific Literacy Project (SLP) (Mantzicopoulos, Patrick & Samarapungavan, 2005). Four public kindergarten science classrooms were chosen to implement science teaching strategies using a guided-inquiry approach. Data were…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Inquiry, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Payant, Caroline; Reagan, Derek – Language Teaching Research, 2018
A growing body of research has shown a positive role of task-supported instruction in second language (L2) learning (Ellis, 2003a; Loewen, 2015; Van Den Branden, 2006). From a pedagogical perspective, recycling or repeating parts of teaching materials is common practice and theoretical support for such practice is emerging (Bygate and Samuda,…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Crane, Lauren Shapiro; Fernald, Anne – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2017
This study investigated whether European American and Japanese mothers' speech to preschoolers contained exchange- and alignment-oriented structures that reflect and possibly support culture-specific models of self-other relatedness. In each country 12 mothers were observed in free play with their 3-year-olds. Maternal speech was coded for…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Asians, North Americans, Cross Cultural Studies
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Colozzo, Paola; Whitely, Cristy – First Language, 2015
This study considered the linguistic forms used by 63 English-speaking Canadian children from kindergarten to second grade (ages 5;6-8;8) to introduce, maintain reference to, and reintroduce primary and secondary characters throughout their narratives The expected referring forms were used more frequently for the best-matching referential…
Descriptors: Correlation, English, Language Acquisition, Form Classes (Languages)
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Canfield, Caitlin F.; Ganea, Patricia A. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2014
How can we explain children's understanding of the unseen world? Young children are generally able to distinguish between real unobservable entities and fantastical ones, but they attribute different characteristics to and show less confidence in their decisions about fantastical entities generally endorsed by adults, such as Santa Claus. One…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Fantasy, Imagination, Cognitive Ability
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Sa'd, Seyyed Hatam Tamimi – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2015
This article reports on a study that set out to investigate how Iranian EFL learners respond to compliments in English. The data were collected using a discourse completion task (DCT) consisting of a variety of situations that required the participants, 26 EFL learners (13 males and 13 females) to respond to compliments directed at them. The data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Responses
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Tribushinina, Elena; Dubinkina, Elena; Sanders, Ted – First Language, 2015
The ability of language-impaired children to maintain coherence by using discourse connectives has so far been assessed by quantitative measures. This study is a first attempt to scrutinize the "quality" of connective use in specific language impairment (SLI). The authors investigate whether Russian-speaking children reveal sensitivity…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Error Patterns, Attribution Theory, Interviews
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Crowell, Amanda; Kuhn, Deanna – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2014
Argumentation is increasingly recognized as a fundamental intellectual skill, but evidence suggests that few adolescents or adults are skilled arguers. This article reports on an extended (3-year, twice weekly) intervention designed to afford dense practice in dialogic argumentation to middle-school students from traditionally academically…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Skill Development, Role, Intervention
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Inceoglu, Solène – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2015
This article explores the use of gesture by a French language teacher during lexical focus on form (FonF). The analysis compares pre-emptive FonF (before a problem in communication has occurred), and reactive FonF (after a problem has occurred) and looks at the differences between teacher-initiated and learner-initiated FonF in the use and type of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, French, Language Teachers
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Arya, Poonam; Christ, Tanya; Chiu, Ming – Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 2015
This study examined how characteristics of Collaborative Peer Video Analysis (CPVA) events are related to teachers' pedagogical outcomes. Data included 39 transcribed literacy video events, in which 14 in-service teachers engaged in discussions of their video clips. Emergent coding and Statistical Discourse Analysis were used to analyze the data.…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Coding, Statistical Analysis, Teaching Methods
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Hasford, Julian; Loomis, Colleen; Nelson, Geoffrey; Pancer, S. Mark – Youth & Society, 2016
This comparative study examined how participation in an early childhood development (ECD) program, "Better Beginnings, Better Futures," for children (ages 4-8) relates to sense of community (SOC) in later adolescence (ages 18-19). Youths' stories (N = 96) about community experiences, collected by semistructured, open-ended interviews,…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Sense of Community, Children, Late Adolescents
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