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Park, Jungeun; Rizzolo, Douglas – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2022
We consider how the existence of different signifiers for mathematical objects in different languages manifests in discourse about those objects. Based on the observation that there is a common signifier "derivative" in English used for both the derivative at a point and the derivative function and two phonetically and semantically…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Korean, Contrastive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis
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Zorluel Özer, Havva – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2022
As we move forward in the era of globalization where linguistic diversity is greater than ever, the standard language cultures we live in continue to shape our thoughts about language. One common space dominated by the standard language mindset is the higher education where linguistically diverse faculty are stigmatized by their language,…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Language Attitudes, Social Media, Discourse Analysis
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Karrebaek, Martha Sif; Nergiz, Özgün – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2019
Although not often discussed, complementary ('mother tongue') classrooms comprise participants who differ substantially in a number of ways. Differences comprise, e.g. participants' orientations to and understandings of the indexicalities of linguistic registers, which may have been brought along from the presupposed country of origin. It has…
Descriptors: Socialization, Classroom Communication, Native Language Instruction, Comparative Analysis
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Netz, Hadar; Yitzhaki, Dafna; Lefstein, Adam – Language and Education, 2018
This article is about language corrections in Israeli Hebrew-speaking primary classrooms. The ideological significance of language corrections, particularly within the highly contested context of Israeli society and Modern Hebrew, underlies the current study. Teachers in Israeli, Hebrew-speaking classes were found to frequently correct not only…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Language Attitudes, Error Correction, Teaching Methods
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Hardcastle, John; Yandell, John – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2018
Over the past two decades in England, those intent on the transformation of schooling have sought to win support for their neoliberal project by emphasising the difference between, on the one hand, their vision of what education is, and what it is for, and, on the other, the practices and forms of education that preceded the era of standards-based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Neoliberalism, Standards
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Jensen, Bryant; Valdés, Guadalupe; Gallimore, Ronald – Educational Researcher, 2021
Language in education for children and youth from low-income communities of color, including those learning English as an additional language, has been fraught for decades with ideological entanglements, conceptual ambiguities, and empirical limitations. Meanwhile, the teacher learning challenge to implement equitable teaching practices remains…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Classroom Communication, Lesson Plans, Video Technology
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Cui, Wenqi – Journal of English as an International Language, 2019
In the past decades, interests in L2 (English as a second language) students' language socialization in academic communities have increasingly grown since more and more L2 students have enrolled in universities in the Western world. Previous studies centered on L2 students' attempts to obtain academic discourses as well as linguistic and cultural…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Variation, Language Attitudes
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Lamb, Gavin – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2015
The transgressive use of language by out-group speakers, or crossing is used in a variety of ways to achieve both affiliative and disaffiliative ends among youths. However, crossing can also be used as an affiliative resource in asymmetrical power relations between teachers and students. Reporting on the findings of a 1.5 year ethnography of an…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Audio Equipment, Language Variation, Multilingualism
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Geyer, Naomi – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2013
This paper examines the use of Japanese addressee honorific in several social contexts (e.g., family dinner table and faculty meetings) and considers the relationship between social norms and variations. It attempts to reconsider the notion of discernment (Ide, 1989, 2006) in line with Bourdieu's (1977) conception of "habitus,"…
Descriptors: Japanese, Language Usage, Pragmatics, Form Classes (Languages)
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Wei, Li – Classroom Discourse, 2014
This article examines multilingual interactions in the complementary school classroom for ethnic Chinese children in the UK. Through a detailed analysis of classroom exchanges amongst the children and their teachers, the study aims to demonstrate how they alternate between different varieties of Chinese and English and different modes of…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Self Concept, Asians, Classroom Communication
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van Compernolle, Remi A.; Williams, Lawrence – Language Teaching Research, 2012
This article explores the microgenetic development of learners' understanding of sociolinguistic variation in French during an instructional conversation (IC) that followed a language analysis task in which learners attempted to formulate hypotheses about the nature of language variation. During the IC, the instructor led students toward a…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Sociolinguistics, French, Teaching Methods
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Vaish, Viniti – Language and Education, 2013
This paper is about the questioning patterns of teachers in an early intervention reading program and the exceptions to this typical interactional pattern. Literacy experts recommend a rich diet of oral language for young learners of English literacy. Teachers offer this rich diet by creating an appropriate learning environment in the classroom…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Cumming, Alister; So, Sufumi – Journal of Second Language Writing, 1996
Describes the dynamics of problem solving through spoken discourse in one-to-one tutoring of second-language writing in order to determine whether these processes vary with either instructional approach or language used. Tutors' and students' cooperative efforts to solve problems in the students' draft compositions focused primarily on local…
Descriptors: College Students, Cultural Influences, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language)