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Sarah Joann Lopez – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Bullying continues to be a concern in the field of education among school aged students, including individuals with disabilities. The areas of exploration in this basic qualitative study were the characterizations used by students, the ways in which they perceive and experience bullying, and ways in which they react to social situations. Social…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Student Attitudes, Bullying, Special Education
Jared Vasil – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Successful reference relies on being appropriately informative for listeners. What factors influence informativeness? For example, what factors influence the decision to refer to a ball with the less informative phrase "it," as opposed to the more informative phrase "the red ball"? The present dissertation proposes and…
Descriptors: Young Children, Language Usage, Educational Games, Behavior Patterns
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Sofie Decock; Sarah Van Hoof; Ellen soens; Hanne Verhaegen – Applied Linguistics, 2024
This paper examines the effect of the recently introduced Dutch non-binary 3rd person pronouns hen and die on tesssxt comprehensibility and text appreciation in the context of newspaper reporting on non-binary persons. Moreover, it presents a first measurement of Flemish people's familiarity with and attitudes towards this pronominal reform in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indo European Languages, LGBTQ People, Form Classes (Languages)
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Beth Malory – Applied Linguistics, 2024
Amidst ongoing global debate about reproductive rights, questions have emerged about the role of language in reinforcing stigma around termination. Amongst some 'pro-choice' groups, the use of "pro-life" is discouraged, and "anti-abortion" is recommended. In UK official documents, "termination of pregnancy" is…
Descriptors: Pregnancy, Social Bias, Language Usage, Foreign Countries
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Cheryl A. McLean – Reading Research Quarterly, 2024
The growing presence and impact of predominantly female online influencers suggests the proliferation of a cultural phenomenon that characterizes the social aspects of our digital lives. Working with the notion of gender and maker literacies, this paper shines light on newer forms of making practices by looking at influencer cultures of five…
Descriptors: Social Media, Gender Issues, Influences, Foreign Countries
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Christian Jones; David Oakey – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2024
Developing spoken grammar awareness is a crucial first step in fostering noticing habits (Schmidt, 1990) in second language learners. Classroom instruction using corpus-informed materials is an ideal way to assist this development, given that these materials are based on research which informs us about the most frequent forms and uses of spoken…
Descriptors: Grammar, Speech Communication, Diaries, Foreign Countries
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Drew Hwang; Hui Shi; Larisa Preiser-Houy – Information Systems Education Journal, 2024
Modern digital technologies are advancing rapidly, driving transformative changes. For Information Systems (IS) educators, maintaining curricula that prepare graduates for the digital economy is imperative. This study developed a knowledge pool of 121 common keywords in digital transformation through literature review and investigated their…
Descriptors: Information Systems, Computer Science Education, Course Descriptions, Undergraduate Study
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Elia Delphi – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2024
In this article, I make sense of my encounters with the language of objectivity as a student, tutor, mentor, and researcher. I rely on Dorothy E. Smith's conceptualisation of the ethic of objectivity, a practice that requires the student to devalue their embodied experience while ripping it from their experiential knowledge, which in turn they…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Perspective Taking, Power Structure, Personal Narratives
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Yukyeong Song; Wanli Xing; Chenglu Li; Xiaoyi Tian; Yingbo Ma – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2024
Previous literature has associated math literacy with linguistic factors such as verbal ability and phonological skills. However, few studies have investigated "linguistic synchrony," shown in mathematical discussions. This study modelled math literacy and examined the relationship of math literacy with linguistic synchrony between…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Language Skills, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Secondary School Students
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Jocelyn Rios – International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education, 2024
Active learning practices, like groupwork, are becoming more widely used in post-secondary mathematics classrooms. These practices are often talk-intensive and require interpersonal interactions. As such, it remains an open question the extent to which practices like groupwork equitably support students with different social identities, including…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, College Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Undergraduate Students
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Wiriya Inphen – rEFLections, 2024
This study was designed to investigate the translation of laws from Thai into English with a focus on the use of modal 'shall' in the translations. As the trend of plain legal English continues to rise in the contemporary legal environment, some legal practitioners -- lawyers, judges and legal drafters -- have perceived that the use of the modal…
Descriptors: Verbs, Translation, English (Second Language), Laws
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Pietilä, Penni; Lappalainen, Sirpa – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2023
In Finland, the vocational education and training (VET) qualifications lead into work. Also, active citizenship is one of its aims, and qualification enables application to tertiary study. In terms of these aims, literacies are central. In the context of competency-based VET, we analyse how a curriculum of literacy is realized during literacy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Competency Based Education, Vocational Education, Literacy
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Rix, Jonathan – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2023
Background: The terms idiot, imbecile, and moron are generally associated with notions of intelligence, having served both scientific and mundane roles across cultural-historical contexts and in many different countries. This study seeks to explore the degree to which the use of these terms is an everyday part of our lives and to map out the…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Intelligence, Intellectual Disability, News Media
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Montes, Kevin S.; Dela Cruz, Margott; Vink, Limor H.; Jaime, Saray V.; Almeida, Bryan J.; Aguiluz, Denise Y.; Arca, Diorlene; Smith, Alicia M.; Kapila-Ramirez, Anita; Figueroa-Sierra, Nicole C.; Infante, Gabriel – Health Education & Behavior, 2023
Given that approximately 5% of the U.S. population is currently attending college, research is needed to better understand the language that college students use to describe alcohol recovery regardless of their current drinking behavior. College student perceptions of alcohol recovery are important, given that students may experience an alcohol…
Descriptors: College Students, Language Usage, Alcohol Abuse, Rehabilitation
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Rajendran, Charlene – Research in Drama Education, 2023
This article considers the value of growing up stories among theatre practitioners in Singapore as a resource for learning theatre in multicultural contexts. It engages with the lived experiences of five Singapore theatre practitioners, Alfian Sa'at, Alvin Tan, Haresh Sharma, Kok Heng Leun and Ong Keng Sen, whose contributions to discourses on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Theater Arts, Drama, Cultural Pluralism
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