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Weiss, Sabine; Scharfenberg, Jonas; Kiel, Ewald – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2023
The present study investigated critical incidents in multilingual classrooms from teachers' perspectives to identify resources to make multilingual classrooms succeed. Our study is embedded in identity theories such as Mead's symbolic interactionism, translanguaging, and global language theory. The incidents referred to the language of…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Language Usage, Classroom Techniques, Classroom Communication
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Blume, Carolyn; Gerlach, David; Roters, Bianca; Schmidt, Torben – TESL-EJ, 2019
In light of the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2007) as well as increased immigration and concomitant diversity, schools in Germany are addressing the challenge of educating learners in increasingly heterogeneous settings. Given the status of English as a foreign language (EFL) as a core school subject as…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Student Attitudes, Preservice Teachers, English (Second Language)
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Garberoglio, Carrie Lou; Gerasimova, Daria; Shogren, Karrie A.; Palmer, Jeffrey Levi; Johnson, Paige M.; Ryan, Claire; Pace, Jesse R.; Hicks, Tyler; Millen, Kaitlyn; Higgins, Jennifer; Cawthon, Stephanie W. – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2022
Research literature and community narratives both emphasize the importance of self-determination in the lives of deaf youth. This paper describes the development, initial validation, and potential applications of a translated measure of self-determination for deaf youth, the SDI:SR ASL Translation (SDI:SR ASL). A sample of 3,309 young people who…
Descriptors: Self Determination, Deafness, American Sign Language, Student Attitudes
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Barbara Gross – Intercultural Education, 2025
The incorporation of intersectionality into the study of belonging and inclusion/exclusion mechanisms in educational institutions acknowledges the complexity of potentially discriminatory factors such as ethnic background, linguistic diversity, gender, class, and (dis)ability, and the overlaps and interaction between them when it comes to…
Descriptors: Intersectionality, Inclusion, Ethnic Groups, Language Usage
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Phumsiri, Napat; Tangkiengsirisin, Supong – Arab World English Journal, 2018
This study aims to examine the use of English with political correctness of master's degree students in a university in Bangkok, Thailand and to identify their attitudes and opinions towards the use of English with political correctness. The subjects of this study were 100 students from different backgrounds who had been exposed to the English…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Language Usage, Graduate Students
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McNamara, Scott W. T.; Wilson, Kylie R.; Petersen, Amy – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2020
Educators' understanding and use of language is particularly relevant in relation to historically marginalized groups, such as people with disabilities. However, previous research has suggested that teacher education programs do not adequately address the concepts of language and disability. Content acquisition podcasts (CAPs) may provide them…
Descriptors: Knowledge Base for Teaching, Audio Equipment, Handheld Devices, Information Dissemination
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Hoffman, Holly; Hengesbach, Marie; Trotter, Shana – Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 2020
Many people believe supportive environments inclusive of all populations are of utmost importance. However, a concern centers on the language used to refer to individuals with disabilities, as some support person-first language, and others oppose this practice that became more popular in the late 1980's and early 1990's. Person-first language is…
Descriptors: College Environment, College Students, Language Usage, Student Attitudes
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Cologon, Kathy; Mevawalla, Zinnia – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2018
The importance of communication partner intervention to support the successful implementation of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) strategies has been established. Despite this, limited knowledge and use of AAC form serious barriers to inclusion. In this study, 196 pre-service early childhood teachers were taught key word signing…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Early Childhood Education, Intervention, Augmentative and Alternative Communication
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Coppola, Rick; Woodard, Rebecca; Vaughan, Andrea – Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice, 2019
This case study explores how a research-practice partnership worked to cross-pollinate culturally sustaining pedagogy (CSP) and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) over the course of a 9-week spoken word poetry unit in a seventh-grade classroom. The unit reflected CSP's commitment to linguistic, literate, and cultural pluralism (e.g., centering…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Culturally Relevant Education, Self Concept, Cultural Awareness
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Chen, Crystal; Reagan, Emilie Mitescu; Vernikoff, Laura; Goodwin, A. Lin – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
The purpose of this study is to understand how a cohort of teaching residents' beliefs and articulations about teaching for social justice change over time from before entering residency to their first year of teaching. In doing so, we conduct an examination of their conceptions of and beliefs about teaching for social justice over multiple…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Urban Schools, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education
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Jalkanen, Juha, Ed.; Jokinen, Elina, Ed.; Taalas, Peppi, Ed. – Research-publishing.net, 2015
"Voices of Pedagogical Development" is a collection of articles written by teacher-researchers at the University of Jyväskylä Language Centre. It shares the fruits of their ideas and development work in the areas of academic literacies, new forms of teaching and learning, and internationalisation. Part one aims at establishing and…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Literacy, Higher Education, Educational Practices
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Koutsouris, George; Anglin-Jaffe, Hannah; Stentiford, Lauren – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2020
The paper draws on the findings of a small-scale empirical study to discuss why the project of inclusion, despite a long history of legislative efforts from the Salamanca Statement onwards, still appears to be troubling. The study used scenarios to explore tensions between inclusion and individual choice experienced by young people in the context…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Interpersonal Relationship, Interaction, Civil Rights
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Mollet, Amanda L. – Journal of College Student Development, 2020
In this grounded theory study I examined asexual college students' identity development within collegiate environments. Asexual students' experiences provided the emergent pathways for understanding their processes of identifying within the asexual spectrum. The resulting theory was constructed from and rooted in asexual students' stories and…
Descriptors: College Students, Identification (Psychology), Sexuality, Racial Differences
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Musengi, Martin; Ndofirepi, Amasa; Shumba, Almon – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2013
The study explores the communication challenges faced by teacher trainees in teaching deaf learners and the opportunities that they present. A critical disabilities study approach within the qualitative paradigm was employed to collect interview data from 14 trainee teachers (6 were men and 8 women) and 5 of their specialist mentors (all of them…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teaching Methods, Sign Language, Foreign Countries
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Graham, Steve; Daley, Samantha G.; Aitken, Angelique A.; Harris, Karen R.; Robinson, Kristin H. – Journal of Research in Reading, 2018
Individual differences in motivational beliefs, such as writing efficacy and attitudes toward writing in different contexts (academic, recreational, print or digital), are hypothesised to account for variability in writing performance. This study tested this proposition with 185 middle school students (58% were male), examining if writing…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Writing Skills, Self Efficacy, Writing Attitudes
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