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Colleen Kopay – ProQuest LLC, 2024
An opportunity gap exists in the United States school system where students of color score lower on standardized tests and have fewer opportunities than their white counterparts. Culturally Relevant Education (CRE) theory attempts to close this gap, and is defined by Gloria Ladson-Billings (1995) as Pedagogy that rests on three criteria or…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Educational Change, Achievement Gap, Teaching Methods
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Lüdi, Georges – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2020
This paper is grounded in the evolution of our reflection on the relationship between plurilingualism, plurilingual speech and language learning. That is, it refers to research on the construction of plurilingual repertoires, over a period of more than thirty years, as documented in Lüdi and Py (1986 [2009]. "To Be or Not to Be … a…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Correlation, Teaching Methods, Language Usage
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Agbo, Friday Joseph; Olawumi, Olayemi; Oyelere, Solomon Sunday; Kolog, Emmanuel Awuni; Olaleye, Sunday Adewale; Agjei, Richard O.; Ukpabi, Dandison C.; Yunusa, Abdullahi Abubakar; Gbadegeshin, Saheed A.; Awoniyi, Luqman; Erinle, Kehinde O.; Mogaji, Emmanuel; Silas, Aziaka Duabar; Nwachukwu, Chijioke E.; Olawuni, Adedayo – International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, 2020
Social media has become an important platform where users share, comment, discuss, communicate, interact, and play games. Aside from using social media for personal, social, and business purposes, the use of social media has gained attention, particularly for collaborative learning in the educational sector. This paper examines the role of social…
Descriptors: Social Media, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Teaching Methods
Ensley, Rebecca Dills; English, Christopher Lafate – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The current relationship between early college high school and community college faculty reflects a lack of communication and collaboration in common content areas. In this disquisition, we examined the partnership of public high school and community college faculty, and how increasing opportunities for collegial feedback and focused collaborative…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, College School Cooperation, College Faculty, Communities of Practice
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Chen, Julian ChengChiang – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2018
Driven by interactionist theory and operationalized by task-based interaction, this study aims to investigate EFL learners' task-based negotiation in Second Life (SL), a 3D multi-user virtual environment (MUVE). A group of adult EFL learners with diverse cultural/linguistic backgrounds in L1 participated in this task-based virtual class. Learners…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Duncan, Molly K.; Lederberg, Amy R. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2018
Purpose: The aim of this study was to examine relations between teachers' conversational techniques and language gains made by their deaf and hard-of-hearing students. Specifically, we considered teachers' reformulations of child utterances, language elicitations, explicit vocabulary and syntax instruction, and wait time. Method: This was an…
Descriptors: Correlation, Hearing Impairments, Kindergarten, Elementary School Students
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Clements, Jeff C. – Higher Education Studies, 2015
A case study was conducted to assess the efficacy of online communication tools for enhancing independent student engagement in a first-year undergraduate class. Material relevant to course topics was shared with students through three communication platforms and data were extracted to measure student engagement. A questionnaire was also used to…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Case Studies, Undergraduate Students, Learner Engagement
Wisnicki, Stephanie Kraft – ProQuest LLC, 2014
When the Soviet Union launched Sputnik in 1957, it forced Americans to examine the state of science and technology at home. Almost ten years later in 1983, the A Nation at Risk Report showed that schools were still failing in many areas including technology. The No Child Left Behind Report released in the early 2000s confirmed that educational…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Technology Integration
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Niroomand, Masoumeh – English Language Teaching, 2012
The present study was designed to examine the ways power relations influence politeness strategies in disagreement. The study was an attempt to find out whether different power status of people influences the the choice of appropriate politeness strategies and speech act of disagreement by Iranian EFL learners, in a university setting. A Discourse…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Power Structure, Language Proficiency
Rowe-Whyte, Ann-Marie Simone – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study examined the nature of communication experienced by ethnically diverse students who participated in an online distance education course. A quantitative survey research design was used to gather data from students enrolled in an online distance education course. The research examined whether the independent variables, (a) instructional…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Online Courses, Distance Education, Statistical Analysis