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Coachman, Erika de Freitas; Fernandes, Izabelle da Silva – AILA Review, 2023
The aim of this paper is to analyze a set of didactic materials developed to teach English as an Additional Language at a Brazilian public school in Rio de Janeiro. Such materials were designed to invite 7th grade students with diverse social, racial, and economic backgrounds to learn about the world and the English language from viewpoints that…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Jostling Isaac: Dynamic Configurations of Bodies and Objects during a Language Problem Solving Event
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)
Natascha Drachmann – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
Within educational research, there has been an increased interest in recent years to develop learners' language awareness (LA) in the context of plurilingual education. Recommendations and intentions are given pointing to the benefits, but there are few concrete tools for how it can be carried out in practice. The article seeks to contribute to…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Teacher Attitudes, Models, Metalinguistics
Çigdem Bozdag; Yasemin Karakasoglu – Global Studies of Childhood, 2024
Digital media provide easy access to media content in multiple languages from local, national, and transnational contexts. This accessibility of diverse content enables young people in the migration society to develop multilingual and transnational media repertoires: they have the option to continuously and strategically navigate between different…
Descriptors: Multilingual Materials, Foreign Countries, Media Education, Multimedia Materials
Rutt, Alexis A.; Chang-Bacon, Chris K. – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2023
Among inequities faced by multilingual learners, engagement in science education is one of the most persistent. Research suggests leveraging students' full multilingual repertoires in science education can help address this gap. However, pervasive monolingual norms in schooling may impede multilingual engagement, impacting students' multilingual…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Metalinguistics, Grade 7, Units of Study
Scientific Concepts as Meaning-Making Resources for Young EFL Learners in the Learning of Pragmatics
Myrset, Anders – Intercultural Communication Education, 2021
This article reports on a study investigating the role of scientific concepts in the metapragmatic awareness of Norwegian primary EFL learners following a four-week instructional intervention on requesting informed by sociocultural theory (Vygotsky, 2012/1934). Through introducing pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic dimensions of requesting, the…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Gebhard, Meg; Graham, Holly – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2018
Purpose: This paper aims to analyze how middle schoolers developed a critical awareness of language while participating in a curricular unit informed by systemic functional linguistics (SFL). This unit was developed to understanding and taking action to protect a local bat population in the context of school reforms shaping teaching and learning…
Descriptors: Grammar, Teaching Methods, Middle School Students, Grade 7
Martinez, Danny C.; Montaño, Elizabeth – Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice, 2016
In this article, we report findings from a yearlong design research project that worked to leverage the language brokering skills of Latina/Latino middle school youth in an urban school setting. We began the project by asking seventh-grade students to talk about the many languages they speak in their daily lives. Throughout the project, their…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Middle School Students, Urban Schools, Grade 7
Bunch, George C. – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2014
Introducing a distinction between language of ideas and language of display as a means of reconceptualizing what counts as "academic" language, I examine one brief stretch of talk by a small group of linguistically diverse 7th grade students in a U.S. mainstream social studies classroom designed to maximize academic and language…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Language Usage, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Al-Jardani, Khalid Salim Saif – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2012
The paper highlights the concept of consciousness-raising. It relates it to different aspects of ELT such as explicit teaching, language awareness, language acquisition and practice. How these terms are related to the concept of consciousness-raising within the English Language teaching. Its main aim is to help learners to notice for themselves…
Descriptors: Consciousness Raising, Concept Formation, Language Acquisition, Language Usage
Chen, Xi; Ramirez, Gloria; Luo, Yang C.; Geva, Esther; Ku, Yu-Min – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2012
This study evaluated the impact of two metalinguistic factors, English derivational awareness and English-Spanish cognate awareness, and the impact of two sociocultural factors, maternal education and children's length of residence in Canada, on English Language Learners (ELLs)' vocabulary knowledge. The participants of the study were 89…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Spanish Speaking, Chinese, English (Second Language)
Myhill, Debra A.; Jones, Susan M.; Lines, Helen; Watson, Annabel – Research Papers in Education, 2012
This paper reports on a national study, involving a mixed-method research design comprising a randomised controlled trial (RCT), text analysis, student and teacher interviews and lesson observations. It set out to investigate whether contextualised teaching of grammar, linked to the teaching of writing, would improve student outcomes in writing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grammar, Role, Metalinguistics
Evans, Michael; Fisher, Linda – Research Papers in Education, 2010
The last few years have seen the implementation of fundamental structural and curricular policy initiatives affecting the teaching of languages in schools in England. Several policy initiatives have been introduced by the government affecting the position and status of languages in schools, such as the development of foreign language teaching in…
Descriptors: Second Languages, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction
Zipke, Marcy – Reading Psychology, 2007
While it is generally acknowledged that metalinguistic awareness plays a role in decoding ability (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, 2000), less is known about the role metalinguistic awareness plays in comprehension. In the present study, structural riddles and ambiguous sentences differing in the source of linguistic…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Grade 6, Reading Comprehension, Role