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Muse, Alexa – English in Education, 2020
This article examines the results of a 17-week self-narrative portfolio project from a year seven classroom in Turkey. The practitioner research combines the frameworks of Cultural Historical Activity Theory and Figured Words in order to assess the differences in linguistic and identity growth between national and international students. I posit…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Foreign Students, Self Concept
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Coffey, Simon – Modern Language Journal, 2015
As theoretical developments in applied linguistics challenge the dominant mentalist framing of cognition as knowledge residing in the head, new ways of understanding and recording teachers' and students' engagement with languages are needed. Structural and competence-based formats for measuring proficiency posit an incremental model of learning as…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Workshops
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Lapidus, Alec; Kaveh, Yalda M.; Hirano, Mamiko – L2 Journal, 2013
This qualitative, naturalistic study examines thoughts expressed in autoethnographies and accompanying notes written by ESL teachers/learners who are enrolled in a graduate teacher education program in the US. These data are then juxtaposed with the Freirean idea that English learners can be empowered if they analyze their personal paths…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, English Language Learners, English Teachers