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Brunfaut, Tineke – Language Testing, 2023
In this invited Viewpoint on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the journal "Language Testing," I argue that at the core of future challenges and opportunities for the field--both in scholarly and operational respects--remain basic questions and principles in language testing and assessment. Despite the high levels of sophistication…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Testing, Language Usage, Testing Problems
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Lozano, Adele; Salinas, Cristobal, Jr.; Orozco, Roberto C. – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2023
For this study, the authors engaged in a series of conversations or "pláticas" to critically examine their understanding and use of the term "Latinx." Using 'trioethnography' as methodology, the authors' critical dialogic discussions surfaced new and transformative understandings of the term "Latinx." Two questions…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Definitions, Self Concept, Ethnicity
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Fitzgerald, Saira – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2023
As part of the global education industry, the International Baccalaureate (IB) plays an important role in education systems around the world. Although laudatory descriptions of the IB abound, knowledge about it remains vague and superficial, relying predominantly on information produced by the IB organization or its affiliates. To gain fresh…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Global Education, Discourse Analysis, Language Usage
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Mine Sadrazam; Ümmü Bayraktar – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2023
The great economic power of the United States of America allowed its attitude towards the African American population living on its land to be ignored for a long time. However, the lives of the African Americans and the time they have lived have started to manifest itself in music as well as various visual arts. Protest music is written and…
Descriptors: Racism, African Americans, African American History, Music
Barrie E. McGee – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Terminology and language use related to the field of developmental education (DE) has long been discussed by scholars and practitioners to determine the most appropriate forms to use (i.e., developmental vs remedial) to reflect our purposes, our work, and our students (Arendale, 2005; Arendale, et al., 2007; Paulson & Armstrong, 2010; Nist,…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Developmental Programs, Language Usage, Professional Identity
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Militello, Jacqueline – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2023
For newly met acquaintances, deployment of a single lexical term, an emblem such as "tech" or "finance," signals where one stands in the professional universe and points to any manner of traits and characteristics or a certain type of person. This positioning and evaluation has pivotal real-world implications for occupational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Usage, Professional Personnel, Interpersonal Communication
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Kam, Chester Chun Seng – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2023
When constructing measurement scales, regular and reversed items are often used (e.g., "I am satisfied with my job"/"I am not satisfied with my job"). Some methodologists recommend excluding reversed items because they are more difficult to understand and therefore engender a second, artificial factor distinct from the…
Descriptors: Test Items, Difficulty Level, Test Construction, Construct Validity
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Cohen, Etan; Hod, Yotam; Ben-Zvi, Dani – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2023
Background: The sociocultural turn redefined learning in terms of shifting identities. In recent years, learning scientists have explored the connections between learning and various types of identities, including disciplinary identity, gender, race, and more. In this article we focus on national identity, to understand how it is constructed and…
Descriptors: Nationalism, Grade 9, Jews, Self Concept
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Chan, Joy Wai Yan; Chan, Winnie Wai Lan – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2023
Background: The debate on using concrete versus abstract materials in learning mathematics has been longstanding. For decades, research has focused on the physical characteristics of materials when defining them as concrete or abstract. Aims: This study extends the field by proposing a two-dimensional classification, which defines materials as…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Mathematics Instruction, Classification, College Students
Jessica Marie Kubiak – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Over a century ago, rhetoricians called on writing instructors in the U.S. to accept and even encourage language diversity among learners. Yet scholars of composition, rhetoric, and writing studies are still advocating for this via arguments for linguistic justice and translingualism, even referring to strict adherence to a single, mainstream…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Community Colleges, Freshman Composition, Nontraditional Students
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Daphna Harel; Dorothy Seaman; Jennifer Hill; Elisabeth King; Dana Burde – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2023
Indirect questioning attempts to overcome social desirability bias in survey research. However, to properly analyze the resulting data, it is crucial to understand how it impacts responses. This study analyzes results from a randomized experiment that tests whether direct versus indirect questioning methods lead to different results in a sample of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Youth, Questioning Techniques, Language Usage
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Canut, Emmanuelle; Jourdain, Morgane; Bocéréan, Christine – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2023
The goal of this study is to investigate the acquisition of causal relations with parce que "because" and temporal relations with quand "when" by children between age 3 and 5. We aim at identifying whether different discourse type, conversation and narration, allow children to use quand and parce que with different semantic…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, French, Child Language, Syntax
Jiwan Dhungana – Multicultural Education, 2023
The children of Nepal are culturally diverse, speak many languages, and come to school with diverse perspectives. To address these needs, the challenge is to translate classroom instruction into cultural diversity responsive instruction (CDRI) and develop the critically conscious responses that are needed. Thus this study was designed to carry out…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Culturally Relevant Education, Cultural Context, Student Diversity
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Rufan Luo; Lulu Song; Aniyah Davis-Hilton; Sarah Surrain – Grantee Submission, 2023
Despite a rapid growth in the number of dual language learning children (DLLs) in the United States, there is a limited understanding of what parents of DLLs believe and know about dual language learning and education, and how parental beliefs and knowledge relate to children's dual language experiences at home. In the current study, 225 parents…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Spanish, English, Language Usage
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Fluegel, Sabrina; King, Kendall – Language Policy, 2022
This paper analyzes how multi-level marketing companies (MLMs), via direct selling through electronic commerce (e-commerce) and social media, enact and evade federal language policy to maximize profits. Here we describe the federal language policies that govern this type of e-commerce, and in particular, the language policies of the Federal Trade…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Public Policy, Business, COVID-19
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