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Direct linkPapen, Uta; Tusting, Karin – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2020
This paper reports on an international collaborative project working with deaf learners of English literacy (19-28 years old) in five locations in India: Indore; Vadadora; Comibatore; Pattambi; and Thrissur. Indian Sign Language (ISL) was the language of instruction. The project drew on a social practices view of literacy. Deaf peer tutors were…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Curriculum Development, Literacy, Grammar
Download full textDaly, Nicola; Sharma, Sashi – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2018
Research indicates that teachers can face challenges in knowing how to support language learners because they often have minimal training in teaching language learners in mainstream contexts (Martin, 2004; Sharma et al., 2011) and may consider language learners using their home language as detrimental to their learning (Franken & McComish,…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Language of Instruction, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Characteristics
Gibb, Gordon S. – Journal of International Education and Leadership, 2012
This paper describes lessons learned from the first-year education efforts of Rising Star Outreach of India, a U.S.-based nongovernmental charitable organization (NGO) working with leprosy colonies in Tamil Nadu, India. In 2008, Rising Star Outreach established a residential school to provide English-medium schooling for 180 colony children in…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Phenomenology
