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Wawire, Brenda Aromu; Barnes-Story, Adrienne – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2023
When teaching multilingual learners, it is critical for teachers to use instructional strategies that engage and nurture language and biliteracy skills. In this practice-based paper, we address how teachers can utilize translanguaging strategies to recognize and build multilingual practices while offering all learners opportunities to share their…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning, Language Usage, Native Language
Guadagni, Donald; Xu, Ziming – Online Submission, 2021
This paper outlines and details historical L2 curriculum development for segments of China's State education system over a ten-year period beginning with the start of the Sino -- Foreign joint programs classes in 2011. A two-year post assessment from 2015-2017. Tracking students continuing test results for both the CET (College English Test)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Tests
Kibler, Amanda, Ed.; Valdés, Guadalupe, Ed.; Walqui, Aída, Ed. – Routledge Research in Education, 2020
Acknowledging teacher and student dialogue as key to student development, this volume takes a critical perspective on notions of classroom participation, extending previous scholarship to illustrate how critical, dialogic pedagogies can promote equity and inclusivity. In proposing and outlining the parameters of "critical dialogic…
Descriptors: Dialogs (Language), Teacher Student Relationship, Student Participation, Classroom Communication
Guadagni, Donald – Online Submission, 2015
This instructional paper examines the lack of L2 English skills demonstrated by Chinese post-secondary education students and the results of empiric testing to determine what key language functions were missing from a student's tool box when exiting their primary education phase.The identification of these skills and ability gaps allowed for…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Total Quality Management, English (Second Language)
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Oliveira, Alandeom W.; Colak, Huseyin; Akerson, Valarie L. – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2009
In this study we examine how elementary teachers in Brazil and Turkey approached the translation and subsequent classroom implementation of an instructional activity that promotes environmental awareness through a combination of student role playing and teacher oral delivery of an environmental story about river pollution. A discourse analysis…
Descriptors: Role Playing, Translation, Student Role, Discourse Analysis
Hoefer, Sylvia – Neueren Sprachen, 1974
The planned revision in the interpreter and translator curricula must not leave out of consideration the interests and needs of the students. Therefore students in the courses for translators and interpreters were interrogated about their motivation for study and their conceptions of the profession. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: College Students, Curriculum Development, Interpreters, Modern Language Curriculum