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Kim, Miso – English Teaching, 2020
The purpose of this study was to analyze six English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners' trajectories of discriminating near-synonyms in a data-driven learning task. Since the learners find it considerably difficult to learn subtle meaning differences of near-synonyms, corpus-based data-driven learning may provide an opportunity for them to…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Task Analysis
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Cooper, Katelyn M.; Auerbach, Anna Jo J.; Bader, Jordan D.; Beadles-Bohling, Amy S.; Brashears, Jacqueline A.; Cline, Erica; Eddy, Sarah L.; Elliott, Deanna B.; Farley, Elijah; Fuselier, Linda; Heinz, Heather M.; Irving, Madison; Josek, Tanya; Lane, A. Kelly; Lo, Stanley M.; Maloy, Jeffrey; Nugent, Michelle; Offerdahl, Erika; Palacios-Moreno, Juan; Ramos, Jorge; Reid, Joshua W.; Sparks, Rachel A.; Waring, Ashley L.; Wilton, Mike; Gormally, Cara; Brownell, Sara E. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2020
Individuals who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and otherwise nonstraight and/or non-cisgender (LGBTQ+) have often not felt welcome or represented in the biology community. Additionally, biology can present unique challenges for LGBTQ+ students because of the relationship between certain biology topics and their LGBTQ+…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, At Risk Students, Science Instruction, Biology
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Díaz, Edgar; Deroo, Matthew R. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2020
Situated in an increasingly hostile political climate toward traditionally marginalized individuals, including those with Latinx identity, our study uses systemic functional linguistics to examine language choices authors make in regards to conflict and contention between Latinxs and the United States across three different 11th-grade U.S. history…
Descriptors: Grade 11, High School Students, Self Concept, United States History
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Li, Jing; Marshall, Steve – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2020
This article describes the use of linguistic landscaping as a pedagogical resource [Sayer, Peter. 2010. "Using the Linguistic Landscape as a Pedagogical Resource." "ELT Journal" 64 (2): 143-154] for teaching and learning about multilingualism in a graduate course on ethnographic research methods. We present an account of a…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes
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Bustamante, Carolina – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2020
The topic of this study is professional development (PD) on Web 2.0 technologies for foreign language teachers and integration of these tools into the language classroom. This research explored the experiences of eighteen teachers of Spanish in grades 7-12 from both rural and urban areas in Nebraska, United States, who participated in a…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning
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Hur, Jin Hee; Snyder, Patricia; Reichow, Brian – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2020
Children who are dual language learners (DLLs) often have more difficulty acquiring English early literacy skills than their English monolingual peers. Much remains to be learned about efficacious early literacy instructional interventions and their effects on English early literacy skills of DLLs. The purposes of this systematic review were to…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Bilingualism, English Language Learners, Literacy
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Nippold, Marilyn A.; LaFavre, Scott; Shinham, Kristin – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: Critical thinking pervades formal educational benchmarks in the United States, including the Common Core State Standards. However, little information is available on how it develops. Hence, the primary purpose of this study was to examine the development of critical thinking in adolescents using a written language-sampling task. We also…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Folk Culture, Task Analysis, Middle School Students
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Albers, Robyn; Vences, Paola Trejo; Nickerson, Catherine – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2020
One of the consequences of the digital era has been the undeniable rise in the use of English in business. Studies have shown that large numbers of people in the business community now rely on English to get their work done, and at the same time, that many business transactions now take place through digital technologies in the form of computer…
Descriptors: Business English, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English for Special Purposes
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Qin, Kongji – Modern Language Journal, 2020
This article examines the relationship between language curriculum and learners' subjectivity through a poststructuralist perspective. I use performativity theory to highlight the constituting power of language and integrate it with critical race theory to understand the relationships among curriculum, classroom interaction, and subjectivity…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Classroom Communication, Immigrants, Correlation
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Ndijuye, Laurent Gabriel – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2020
This study investigated the role of home learning environments and family socioeconomic status in children's learning in Tanzania. A total of 303 participants from the naturalized refugees, rural, and urban majority groups were recruited. Data were collected using parents' questionnaires, interviews, Bracken's Basic Concept Scale--Receptive, Early…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Environment, Socioeconomic Status, Refugees
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Gillies, Robyn M. – Education Sciences, 2020
Teachers play a critical role in promoting dialogic interaction in their students. The purpose of this case study was to investigate how one very effective teacher taught two, cooperative, inquiry-based science units to her Year 6 class. In particular, the case study focused on how she used different discourses to capture students' curiosity in…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Science Instruction, Inquiry, Teaching Methods
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Yanaprasart, Patchareerat – European Journal of Higher Education, 2020
Academic globalisation and the internationalisation of scientific knowledge currently place higher education between two forces: global competitiveness and innovation on the one hand, local attractiveness and diversity on the other. In view of this double requirement, this paper aims to examine language policy and analyse its impact on language…
Descriptors: Competition, Global Approach, Language Planning, Multilingualism
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Wang, Hao – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2020
Informed by Poststructuralist Theory, this study investigated the impact of stereotyped notions of English on three doctoral Asian teaching assistants' (TAs) professional identities development as instructors at a US university. This article employed a qualitative approach to examine the Asian TAs' views of standard and stereotyped views of…
Descriptors: Stereotypes, Teaching Assistants, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Galloway, Nicola; Numajiri, Takuya; Rees, Nerys – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2020
In recent years, one of the most significant trends in higher education in non-anglophone countries has been the growth in English Medium Instruction (EMI). However, provision is rapidly outpacing empirical research. This study examined how macro-level education policy with regard to EMI is both implemented and conceptualised at the institutional…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Sydorenko, Tetyana; Jones, Zachary W.; Daurio, Phoebe; Thorne, Steven L. – Language Learning & Technology, 2020
Usage-based linguistics posits that communicative functions, including pragmatics, are at the core of language (Tomasello, 1992). It is surprising, then, that pragmatics is rarely systematically included in second language curricula (e.g., Bardovi-Harlig, 2017), especially since pragmatics instruction has been shown to significantly contribute to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Pragmatics, Independent Study, Language Usage
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