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Ronesh Rajcoomar; Olebogeng Nicodimus Morabe; Betty Breed – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2025
This research analysed the cultural factor of metacognition within South African physical science classrooms, by conducting research on physical sciences classes within two KwaZulu-Natal districts. The data from the mixed methods design suggested that Indigenous pupils were not taught in their first language, cultural knowledge was not promoted…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Cultural Influences, Creativity, Physical Sciences
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Seltzer, Kate – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2019
The author describes a literacy activity that took place in an 11th-grade English language arts classroom: student-created role-play. Through a discussion of two such role-plays, the author explores how these performances illustrate students' engagement with raciolinguistic ideologies that marginalize certain speakers through the simultaneous…
Descriptors: Literacy, Grade 11, Language Arts, Role Playing
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Mpalami, Nkosinathi – Pythagoras, 2022
Mathematics education remains problematic in South Africa's schools. However, some mathematics educators are deliberately using learners' home languages in tasks to assist learners to understand mathematics. Research-based evidence shows that learners' home languages when used as a resource have a potential to enhance learners' understanding of…
Descriptors: Translation, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Native Language
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Sibarani, Clara – Journal of English Teaching, 2019
The use of the first language in the teaching and learning process is often found in English as a foreign language (EFL) classes. In Indonesia, Bahasa Indonesia is also employed in many English classes. This might bring both advantages and disadvantages to the students. This study aimed to find out the students' perceptions toward teachers' use of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Usage
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Dolowy-Rybinska, Nicole – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2020
This paper investigates how bilingual Upper Sorbian-German teachers who belong to the Sorbian speech community (Lusatia, Germany) introduce the minority language during German language lessons in an Upper Sorbian school. In Lusatia, as well as in Sorbian schools, bilingualism is not of equal character; minority language speakers are all bilingual…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Bilingual Teachers, Language Minorities, German
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Chikiwa, Clemence; Schäfer, Marc – Perspectives in Education, 2019
Research into the importance of teachers' use of verbal language in multilingual classes where teaching and learning is done in a language other than the learners' first, is crucial. Such research aimed at improving multilingual learners' access to conceptual understanding of mathematical concepts is becoming increasingly urgent. In this paper, we…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Teaching Methods
Padmakala, S. – Online Submission, 2019
The present study was conducted to explore the awareness of the Clean India Mission among higher secondary students of Kanya Kumari District. The objective was to find out the level of awareness and to find out the significant difference in the awareness of the Clean India Mission among higher secondary students of KanyaKumari District in relation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Teaching Methods, Gender Differences
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Díaz, Edgar; Deroo, Matthew R. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2020
Situated in an increasingly hostile political climate toward traditionally marginalized individuals, including those with Latinx identity, our study uses systemic functional linguistics to examine language choices authors make in regards to conflict and contention between Latinxs and the United States across three different 11th-grade U.S. history…
Descriptors: Grade 11, High School Students, Self Concept, United States History
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Dolowy-Rybinska, Nicole – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
This study examines the attitudes of German-speaking pupils towards Sorbian-language education and the problems these pupils indicate as an obstacle to becoming bilingual through educational settings. Based on the research carried out in the Upper Sorbian Grammar School in Bautzen/Budyšin (Germany) combining a statistical survey, in-depth…
Descriptors: Slavic Languages, Student Attitudes, Second Language Instruction, Barriers
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De Los Ríos, Cati V.; Seltzer, Kate; Molina, Arturo – Applied Linguistics, 2021
Changing demography in the Southwest USA has shifted the racial compositions of many neighborhoods that were once predominantly African American to majority Latinx immigrant communities (Orfield and Frankenberg 2014). Today, it's common for these two youth communities to learn side-by-side in urban and suburban classrooms where they are often…
Descriptors: Racial Composition, Geographic Regions, African American Students, Hispanic American Students
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Motloung, Amos Ntokozo; Mavuru, Lydia; McNaught, Carmel – South African Journal of Education, 2021
African township schools are characterised by cultural and linguistic diversity, hence, teachers have the dual task of ensuring that learners grasp scientific concepts, while also catering for the diversity in the learners' backgrounds. The study reported on here was aimed at investigating teachers' beliefs and practices in teaching life sciences…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Educational Practices, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Heuzeroth, Johannes; Budke, Alexandra – Education Sciences, 2020
This explorative, qualitative study examines the use and effectiveness of resources of multilinguality, with particular regard to the development of causal links in geography classes. Contentual and linguistic strategies of multilingual pupils in creating causal links were collected and evaluated systematically. This was done by means of a…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Multilingualism, Content Analysis, Cooperative Learning
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Al-Hamad, Raghda F.; Al-Jamal, Dina A. H.; Bataineh, Ruba F. – Digital Education Review, 2019
This paper examines the potential effectiveness of MALL for developing teens' writing performance. The results reveal substantial improvement in content and ideas, organization and mechanics, vocabulary, and language use in favor of the experimental groups (viz. Smart Teens and Amazing Teens).
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Kapanadze, Dilek Ünveren – Online Submission, 2018
The aim of this study is to identify the effect of using discourse analysis method on the skills of reading comprehension, textual analysis, creating discourse and use of language. In this study, the authentic test model with pre-test and post-test control group was used in order to determine the difference of academic achievement between…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Reading Comprehension, Reading Skills, Language Usage
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Semeon, Nasimu; Mutekwe, Edmore – South African Journal of Education, 2021
The low enrolment, lack of interest, exacerbated by the general poor performance in physical science in South Africa paints a gloomy picture about the status of physical science in the country. Despite the fact that there might be other factors at play, one factor which cannot be ignored is the discourse about the use of language in the science…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Science Education, Foreign Countries, Sociocultural Patterns
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