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The Social Construction of Age: Adult Foreign Language Learners. Second Language Acquisition
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Andrew, Patricia – Multilingual Matters, 2012
This book explores the social construction of age in the context of EFL in Mexico. It is the first book to address the age factor in SLA from a social perspective. Based on research carried out at a public university in Mexico, it investigates how adults of different ages experience learning a new language and how they enact their age identities…
Descriptors: Social Class, Age, Sociolinguistics, Second Languages
Second Language Teaching and Learning with Technology: Views of Emergent Researchers
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Thouësny, Sylvie, Ed.; Bradley, Linda, Ed. – Research-publishing.net, 2011
The aim of this book was to present innovative applications of technology in second language teaching and learning, as well as to explore the transformation of the different techniques to different theoretical frameworks. It has also been desired to have a representation of researchers from different parts of the world as contributors. When the…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Foreign Countries
Action Research. Case Studies in TESOL Practice Series.
Edge, Julian, Ed. – 2001
Chapter titles in this book include the following: "Attitude and Access: Building a New Teaching/Learning Community in TESOL" (Julian Edge); "Here It Is, Rough Though It May Be: Basic Computer for ESL" (Alison Perkins); "An 'It's Not Action Research Yet, but I'm Getting There' Approach to Teaching Writing" (Neil Cowie); "Early Reflections:…
Descriptors: Action Research, Cultural Awareness, English (Second Language), Language Research
Le Livre Parle de Tours (The Tours Talking Book).
Institut Francais du Royaume-Uni, London (England). – 1974
This volume catalogs a series of tapes which are the result of a two-week session organized to enable professors of French to renew their contact with French language and culture within a sociolinguistic context. The participants interviewed 193 natives of Tours according to the following themes: municipal government, education, women in French…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Education, Educational Media, French
Toward Internationalism: Readings in Cross-Cultural Communication.
Smith, Elise C., Ed.; Luce, Louise Fiber, Ed. – 1979
The major components of cross-cultural communication are treated in this collection of essays. The articles illustrate the influence which a society's values, role expectations, perception, nonverbal patterns and language behavior bring to bear on the international cross-cultural encounter. The following articles are presented: (1) "American…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Communication (Thought Transfer), Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies
Students as Researchers of Culture and Language in Their Own Communities. Language & Social Processes [Series].
Egan-Robertson, Ann, Ed.; Bloome, David, Ed. – 1998
This book presents new directions in classroom education generated by using ethnography and sociolinguistics as teaching tools, the theory behind these efforts, and the classroom practices involved. The chapters are organized to highlight three issues of recent concern to K-12 educators: how student ethnographic and sociolinguistic research can be…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Cultural Awareness, Educational Practices, Elementary School Students
Teaching Languages, Teaching Cultures.
Liddicoat, Anthony J., Ed.; Crozet, Chantal, Ed. – 2000
This collection of papers examines what it means to teach culture as an integrated part of language from both the language learner's and the language teacher's perspectives. The 11 papers include the following: "Teaching Cultures as an Integrated Part of Language: Implications for the Aims, Approaches and Pedagogies of Language Teaching"…
Descriptors: Chinese, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Elementary Secondary Education
Culture and the Bilingual Classroom: Studies in Classroom Ethnography.
Trueba, Henry T., Ed.; And Others – 1981
The 13 papers are grouped into 2 sections: "General Theoretical and Methodological Issues," and "Microethnographic Studies of Minority Culture Children in the Classroom." Section I includes five papers which cover the following topics: approaches to inquiry in school-community ethnography which are qualitative, yet…
Descriptors: American Indians, Bilingual Education, Blacks, Classroom Research
Second Language Acquisition in a Study Abroad Context. Studies in Bilingualism 9.
Freed, Barbara F., Ed. – 1995
The collection of essays on second language learning during study abroad includes: "Language Learning and Study Abroad" (Barbara F. Freed); "Predictors of Foreign Language Gain During Study Abroad" (Richard D. Brecht, Dan E. Davidson, Ralph B. Ginsberg); "A Canadian Interprovincial Exchange: Evaluating the Linguistic…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Communicative Competence (Languages), Cultural Awareness, Discourse Analysis