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Benavides, Ramon; Medina-Jerez, William – Science Teacher, 2017
English Language Learners (ELLs) early schooling often involves a mix of their native (L1) and second (L2) languages. Spanglish speakers take this one step further and employ a hybrid language practice to compensate for their lack of fluency in both Spanish and English. Unlike conventional ELLs, these students use the two languages simultaneously…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Language Usage, Spanish Speaking, English (Second Language)
Using Inquiry to Break the Language Barrier in Chemistry Classrooms
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Adams, Andrew; Jessup, Weston; Criswell, Brett A.; Weaver-High, Consuelo; Rushton, Gregory T. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2015
A guided inquiry lesson intended to support the linguistic and conceptual development of English language learners (ELLs) in a small, cotaught, high-needs secondary setting is presented. Collaborative groupings based on language and content ability coupled with an emphasis on student-student discourse and a hands-on investigation appeared to…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Code Switching (Language), Cultural Pluralism, English Language Learners
Beyond Linguistic Purism in Language-in-Education Policy and Practice: Exploring Bilingual Pedagogies in a Hong Kong Science Classroom
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Lin, Angel – Language and Education, 2006
This paper proposes to overcome the traditional essentialist and dichotomous ways of conceptualising language and language pedagogies, i.e. to go beyond linguistic purist perspectives. Analysing bilingual teaching practices in a science lesson, the paper proposes that practical bilingual pedagogies can be developed to help students in bilingual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction, Educational Policy, Bilingual Education