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Mongillo, Geraldine; Feola, Dorothy; Kaplan, Rochelle Goldberg; Vaknin, Vered; Abbas, Randa – Language and Literacy Spectrum, 2019
The purpose of this study was to investigate the use of communicative strategies employed by two primary grade teachers whose students' home language differed from the language of instruction. The communicative strategies examined included verbal, gestural, and other visual modes of interaction within classroom discourse to promote student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Mongillo, Geraldine; Kaplan, Rochelle G.; Feola, Dorothy; Vaknin-Nusbaum, Vered; Abbas, Randa; Neuman, Ari – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
The purpose of this study was to investigate the communicative strategies used by two effective first grade teachers whose students came from lower SES communities marked by a high incidence of school failure. One school was in Akko, Israel and one was in New Jersey in the US. In both settings, the teachers taught lessons in a language that was…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Language Usage, Semitic Languages, Communication Strategies