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Melby, Alan K., Ed. – 1997
Fifty-nine papers on language research and linguistic theory from the annual forum address these topics: correctness in language; aspects of neurolinguistics and psycholinguistics; historical linguistics and language evolution; linguistic philosophy; aspects of syntax; aspects of discourse analysis; lexicon and semantics; language contact and…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Alzheimers Disease, Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics
Bardovi-Harlig, Kathleen, Ed.; Félix-Brasdefer, J. César, Ed.; Omar, Alwiya S., Ed. – National Foreign Language Resource Center at University of Hawaii, 2006
PRAGMATICS & LANGUAGE LEARNING, a refereed series sponsored by the National Foreign Language Resource Center at the University of Hawai'i, publishes selected papers from the biannual International Pragmatics & Language Learning Conference under the editorship of the conference hosts and the series editor. Check the NFLRC website for…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Language Acquisition, Second Language Learning, Language Research
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Mertz, Elizabeth; Njogu, Wamucii; Gooding, Susan – Journal of Legal Education, 1998
Reports a study of students' class participation in eight law schools, focusing on the language and dynamics of classroom interaction of a culturally diverse student population. Results indicate that race and gender have an effect on student inclusion in law school classes, but patterning is complex and involves the interaction of other factors in…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Pluralism
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Thoman, Elizabeth; Jolls, Tessa – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2005
Today information about the world around people comes to them not only through words on a piece of paper, but more and more through the powerful images and sounds of their multimedia culture. This explosion in information has presented a major challenge to the world of formal education. The transformation of their culture from an industrial age to…
Descriptors: Nonprofit Organizations, Guidelines, Internet, Values
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O'Connor, Carla – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2006
Gloria Ladson-Billings explains in her chapter that, in part, the promise of "Brown v. Board of Education" has not been realized because it was premised on black inferiority. She elaborates that "instead of addressing the underlying pathology of the defendant--White supremacy"--the evidence, case, and accordant ruling…
Descriptors: African American Achievement, Pathology, Discourse Analysis, Racial Bias
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Brown, Mark – Australian Educational Computing, 2005
This paper locates the current technology related school reform movement in the backdrop of growing international debate and illustrates through discourse analysis why teachers and teacher educators need to engage in deeper levels of critical dialogue over the move to plug schools into the so-called knowledge economy. The objective is to raise…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Hidden Curriculum, Political Attitudes, Discourse Analysis
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Thomas, Angela – E-Learning, 2006
In this article the author explores the seamlessness between children's online and offline worlds. For children, there is no dichotomy of online and offline, or virtual and real; the digital is so much intertwined into their lives and psyche that the one is entirely enmeshed with the other. Despite early research pointing to the differences that…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Children, Childhood Attitudes, Longitudinal Studies
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Miller, S. J. – Teacher Education and Practice, 2006
The article examines, through comparative case study method, how secondary-language-arts preservice student teachers' identities were constructed by spacetime configurations and what those identities meant to the individuals in the study. It reflects on the findings from two of the preservice secondary arts teachers for the study in two…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs, Student Teachers, Case Studies
Nabors, Leslie K., Ed.; And Others – Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, 1995
Five papers on applied linguistics in educational contexts are presented. "What Can Second Language Learners Learn from Each Other? Only Their Researcher Knows for Sure" (Teresa Pica, Felicia Lincoln-Porter, Diana Paninos, Julian Linnell) presents further research on interaction and negotiation among language learners.…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Applied Linguistics, College Students, Cooperative Learning
Kitao, S. Kathleen – 1995
A collection of papers, all by the author, looks at a variety of theories and theoretical approaches from linguistics, sociolinguistics, and psycholinguistics and their applications to the teaching of English as a second language. Two studies are also presented. Titles include: "Content Schemata and Second Language Learning";…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages), Discourse Analysis
Mitchell, Keith, Ed.; Parkinson, Brian, Ed. – Edinburgh Working Papers in Applied Linguistics, 1997
Papers on applied linguistics and language pedagogy include: "A Genre Analysis Study of 80 Medical Abstracts" (Kenneth Anderson, Joan Maclean); "Oral Classroom Testing in an Adult French Community Class" (Sheena Davies, Aileen Irvine, Jacqueline Larrieu); "Whose Relevance? Interpretation of Hybrid Texts by a Multiple…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Applied Linguistics, Audience Response, Bilingualism
Notes on Linguistics, 1988
This document consists of the three 1988 issues of the normally quarterly journal "Notes on Linguistics." These issues include the following significant articles: "The Role of the Field Linguist" (Bernard Comrie); "Relational Grammar: An Update Report" (Stephen A. Marlett); "Tone and Stress Analysis by…
Descriptors: African Languages, Bibliographies, Bulgarian, Computer Oriented Programs
Wolfson, Nessa, Ed.; Judd, Elliot, Ed. – 1983
The following are included in this collection of essays on patterns of rules of speaking, and sociolinguistics and second language learning and teaching: "How to Tell When Someone Is Saying 'No' Revisited" (Joan Rubin); "Apology: A Speech-Act Set" (Elite Olshtain and Andrew Cohen); "Interpreting and Performing Speech Acts in a Second Language: A…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adult Students, Attitudes, Code Switching (Language)
Sajavaara, Kari, Ed. – 1983
A collection of 17 papers, most presented at the Fifth International Conference on Contrastive Projects in June 1982 in Finland, includes: "Present Trends in Contrastive Linguistics,""Contrastive Linguistics in Bulgaria,""Communicative Competence in Foreign Language Teaching: A Project Report,""From Traditional…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Children, Communicative Competence (Languages), Contrastive Linguistics
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Celani, Maria Antonieta Alba; Collins, Heloisa – AILA Review, 2005
This paper focuses on online educational sessions of a continuing teacher education programme. The aim of this programme is to give a contribution to the continuing education of teachers of English as critical professionals, aware of discursive classroom practices, able to analyze them in the light of objectives to be reached and knowledge to be…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Continuing Education, Teacher Education Programs, English Teacher Education
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