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Brokering Moves to Support Advances in a Preservice Elementary Teacher's Discourse about Hierarchical Geometric Relationships
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Ian Whitacre; Domonique Caro-Rora; Azar Kamaldar – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2023
Limited literature addresses how elementary preservice teachers (PSTs) can advance their thinking about hierarchical geometric relationships. Informed by a commognitive perspective, we investigated this phenomenon as a matter of discursive change, focusing on word use, visual mediators, and narratives. We report on a teaching experiment involving…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teacher Education Programs, Discourse Analysis, Preservice Teachers
Negotiating Language Choice in Multilingual Lab Meetings: Voices from Domestic and International Students in Taiwan
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Lin, Shumin – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
This article examines language practice in international higher education (HE) in non-Anglophone countries, with a focus on language choice and negotiation in engineering and science lab meetings among culturally and linguistically diverse students and professors. Analyses of 53 in-depth interviews with students and professors in a research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Diversity, Language Usage, English (Second Language)
Language, Images, and Paris Orly Airport on Instagram: Multilingual Approaches to Identity and Self-Representation on Social Media
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Blackwood, Robert – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2019
Given the emergence of a specific trope in social network services, whereby individuals upload an image that includes a passport and/or a boarding pass to index their status as a traveller, this article explores multilingual and multimodal creativity in the construction of identity by a body of individuals who pass through Paris' Orly airport. In…
Descriptors: Social Media, Self Concept, Foreign Countries, Air Transportation
Bilingual Learning Strategies to Support Chinese EAL Business Students
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Ashton-Hay, Sally Ann; Lamberton, Geoffrey; Zhou, Yining; von der Heidt, Tania – Journal of International Education in Business, 2022
Purpose: This study aims to examine the effectiveness of bilingual learning strategies designed to support Chinese undergraduate business students facing significant learning challenges in an Australian university capstone curriculum delivered at their Chinese university. These challenges include the students' difficulty understanding…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Business Administration Education, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning
Working with Mediagrams: A Methodology for Collaborative Research on Mediational Repertoires in Multilingual Families
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Lexander, Kristin Vold; Androutsopoulos, Jannis – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
This paper contributes to current sociolinguistic research on the rapidly-changing landscape of digitally mediated communication (Androutsopoulos and Staehr 2018) by presenting mediagrams, a new method for research on transnational mediated interaction. Based on an ethnographic study of mediated multilingual communication in four families with…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Language Research, Computer Mediated Communication, Ethnography
Disciplinary Knowledge and Gesturing in Communicative Events: A Comparative Study between Lessons Using Interactive Whiteboards and Traditional Whiteboards in Mexican Schools
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Fernandez-Cardenas, Juan Manuel; Silveyra-De La Garza, Marcela Lucia – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2010
In this study the authors have looked at the use of interactive whiteboards (IWBs) in Mexico from a linguistic anthropological perspective. Twenty lessons were video recorded to compare the use of IWBs and traditional boards in different areas of the curriculum in primary schools. Data were analysed as a set of sequenced communicative events in…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Intellectual Disciplines, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis