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Castillo-Scott, Aurora – The EUROCALL Review, 2015
This paper describes a TeleTandem language exchange project between English speaking Spanish students at Georgia College, USA, and Spanish speaking English students at Universidad de Concepción, Chile. The aim of the project was to promote linguistic skills and intercultural competence through a TeleTandem exchange. Students used Skype and Google…
Descriptors: Program Descriptions, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Intercultural Communication
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Buxton, Cory A.; Kayumova, Shakhnoza; Allexsaht-Snider, Martha – Democracy & Education, 2013
This study explores the role of competing discourses that shape current practices in U.S. schools and how professional development efforts can support teachers and researchers in finding ways to reinsert more democratic processes into their collaborative work. We examine the case of one research and professional development project with the goal…
Descriptors: Accountability, Discourse Analysis, Educational Practices, Faculty Development
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Cahnmann, Melisa; Rymes, Betsy; Souto-Manning, Mariana – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2005
Our research focuses on bilingual adults enrolled in the Teachers for English Language Learners (TELL) program. TELL is a scholarship program whose goal is to increase the number of critically-minded bilingual educators in the state of Georgia in the United States. In this paper, we use critical discourse analysis to inform theoretical and…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Discourse Analysis