Students' difficulties interpreting diagrams remain a concern in science education. Research about improving diagram comprehension has included few studies of teachers' orchestration of language and gesture in explaining diagrams--and very few in senior high schools. Research with younger students and studies of research scientists' practice…

Classrooms in English-dominant countries are increasingly multilingual spaces, and research has called for teacher preparation to focus more specifically on the needs of culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) learners. Indeed, efforts have been made to better train pre- and in-service teachers of math, social science, English language arts,…

The authors examine trends in how successful guided pathways colleges communicate transfer options to 4-year institutions via their institutional websites so that students--the ultimate benefactors of guided pathways initiatives--can discover and pursue the transfer partnership pathways. Institutions in the two states included in this review were…

The implementation of science reform must be viewed as a systems-level problem and not just focus on resources for teachers and students. High-capacity instructional leadership is essential for supporting classroom science instruction. Recent reform efforts include a shift from learning about science facts to figuring out scientific phenomena in…

Aggressive behaviors are common among youth with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and correlate with pervasive social-emotional difficulties. Communication skill is an important correlate of disruptive behavior in typical development, and clarification of links between communication and aggression in ASD may inform intervention methods. We…

This paper invites us to reconsider our usual understanding of infancy, no longer as something that passes but as "infantia." The Latin word "infantia," which is not easy to translate, means a lack of speech, a lack of eloquence, and also infancy, babyhood, and dumbness. Drawing on Barbara Cassin's works on the untranslatables,…

This thematic analytic qualitative study used participants' oral narratives to examine primary "Cymraeg," which is the Welsh language, and English-speaking adolescents' perceptions regarding "Cymraeg"-speakers' opportunities of using their primary language on social media. Twenty-three participants were interviewed (two…

Until recently, the role of material culture in language has been little studied or seen as the context where language use is situated (Aronin et al., 2018). This article looks at the materiality of language in a new light by arguing that everyday objects such as kitchen utensils and wardrobes can be seen as deliberate and conscious collections…

Translation of news is a new subfield of translation studies. There is stance diversity in news translation because translators influence meaning through translation tactics, and the usual concept of equivalence is inapplicable to this sector. The news headline is the condensed representation of the news material and the primary factor in…

This study sought to identify the metaphorical languages employed by Indonesian female ulama to realize and promote linguistic gender equality. In this qualitative study, four Indonesian female ulama actively preaching in women's organizations participated. The data for this study consisted of the female ulama's figurative expressions of gender…

Multilingual education is an urgent and pressing concern in the Indian educational scenario. While the National Education Policy (2020) acknowledges multilingualism as a resource in educational contexts and reiterates earlier policies calling for mother tongue-based education in elementary classrooms, it does not provide guidance in terms of how…

Discovering the voice of the inclusive can only be heard outside their usual understandings and audibilities sanctioned by their structures of thought and conventional academic wisdom. Inclusion requires knowing the world in a different way. This paper inscribes its activity in the intersectional-ontological-relational contingency 'reading and…

In the contemporary world, very diverse voices and narratives have punctured the cultural canon of universal Western rationality (an enlightened, modern, racist, classist and patriarchal rationality), as well as question the androcentric and sexist norms of language. Through the emergence of new political subjects and languages that embody…

This paper reveals how Joseph Biden creates an image of a president-optimist through rhetorical strategy of positive self-presentation by using language effectively in his inaugural speech. The strategy is realized by two tactics -- positive representation of compatriots and forecasting good future for the USA. Aimed at evoking in the audience…

This paper presents language as a scenario where the word in its multiple manifestations constitutes a symbolic field around which reality is constructed (as it is not unusual for someone to want to control it). It is briefly explained how in the processes of cultural plundering in Latin America, the word as a technology of power was taken by the…