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David, Samuel S.; Cole, Mikel W. – Classroom Discourse, 2021
This article, a case study of a single instance of collaborative translation in the classroom, explores the role of material mediation and embodied activity in the linguistic problem solving work of emergent multilinguals. We describe one teacher's lesson with a small group of Spanish speaking students in her 7th grade ESL classroom. Collaborative…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Probyn, Margie – Classroom Discourse, 2019
The majority of learners in South African schools are African language speakers, yet the dominance of English in the political economy has meant that schools choose to switch to English medium instruction by Grade 4, before learners have the necessary English proficiency to access the curriculum, with negative effects on learning. This paper…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Code Switching (Language), Bilingualism, Bilingual Education
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Gynne, Annaliina – Classroom Discourse, 2019
This article examines multilingual interactions in an upper secondary Language Introduction Programme (LIP) classroom in Sweden. The LIPs, highly affected by both glocal linguistic and cultural diversity and the monolingual-monocultural habitus of the surrounding society, offer recently arrived immigrant youth (ages 16-19) education where emphasis…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Swedish, Cultural Pluralism
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Wu, Yanming; Lin, Angel M. Y. – Classroom Discourse, 2019
While translanguaging research has been gaining currency worldwide, calls have been made for deepening its theorisation and providing more systematic pedagogical guidance. To contribute to this discussion, this study is informed by a fluid, distributed, dynamic process view of human meaning-making. Through a fine-grained multimodal analysis of…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Biology, Science Instruction, Class Activities
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Amir, Alia; Musk, Nigel – Classroom Discourse, 2013
This article examines what we call "micro-level language policy-in-process"--that is, how a target--language-only policy emerges "in situ" in the foreign language classroom. More precisely, we investigate the role of "language policing", the mechanism deployed by the teacher and/or pupils to (re-)establish the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language of Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Ziegler, Gudrun; Sert, Olcay; Durus, Natalia – Classroom Discourse, 2012
This paper investigates the use of multilingual resources by plurilingual participants in two English language classrooms in Luxembourg. Using Conversation Analysis and drawing on transcriptions of video-recordings, we present three examples of student use of multilingual resources and their respective teacher next turn management (through…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Video Technology