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Renata Love Jones; C. Patrick Proctor – Harvard Educational Review, 2024
In this article Renata Love Jones and Patrick Proctor introduce the notion of pursuing language to engage in critical dialogue about the nature and focus of language and literacy education in multilingual and multicultural contexts. A persistent threat in language and literacy education is standardization that constrains how language and literacy…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Literacy Education, Multilingualism, Cultural Pluralism
McDermott, Kelly L. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study investigated Reading Recovery teacher understandings about language and early literacy acquisition by applying a constructivist grounded theory design. Participants were Reading Recovery teachers working across three varied districts in Massachusetts (N=33). The purpose of the study was to engage Reading Recovery teachers in surveys,…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Reading Programs, Reading Instruction, Grounded Theory
Boudjemaa Dendenne – Migration and Language Education, 2022
We should seek every possible method for educating immigrants and refugees and facilitating communication for them--especially during the current difficult times due to the spread of a killer- pandemic (i.e., Covid-19). To this end, I discuss the role which "metalanguage" could play in this regard, with reference to Natural Semantic…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Refugees, COVID-19, Pandemics
King, Edward Thomas – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Spoken words vary phonetically along a number of dimensions, such as duration, pitch, and vowel quality. Much of this variation is associated with social factors like the dialect, age, or gender of the speaker -- a type of variation termed 'socio-indexical'. Traditional theories of speech perception have seen this socio-indexical variation as a…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Word Recognition, Phonetics, Intonation
Schleppegrell, Mary J. – Language Teaching Research, 2020
English language teachers who work with children in schools need knowledge about how English works to construct and present knowledge. This article discusses three aspects of that knowledge: understanding variation in the registers needed to engage in different classroom tasks, being able to identify language features used in the disciplinary…
Descriptors: Knowledge Base for Teaching, English Teachers, English Instruction, Elementary School Teachers
Lai, Wei; Rácz, Péter; Roberts, Gareth – Cognitive Science, 2020
How do speakers learn the social meaning of different linguistic variants, and what factors influence how likely a particular social-linguistic association is to be learned? It has been argued that the social meaning of more salient variants should be learned faster, and that learners' pre-existing experience of a variant will influence its…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Second Language Learning, Sociolinguistics, Prior Learning
Judy, Tiffany; Puig-Mayenco, Eloi; Chaouch-Orozco, Adel; Martín-Villena, Fernando; Miller, David – Second Language Research, 2023
This study tests the Competing Systems Hypothesis (CSH) as applied to adult second language acquisition of aspect in Spanish. The CSH purports that differences among tutored and untutored learners result from competition between one system of underlying grammatical knowledge and another of learned metalinguistic knowledge in tutored learners…
Descriptors: English, Native Language, Spanish, Second Language Learning
Su, Hang – ELT Journal, 2020
This paper explores the applications of pattern grammar and local grammar in English language teaching, focusing specifically on the design of teaching materials. It shows that grammar patterns can be systematically analysed from a local grammar perspective, and further argues that the practice of local grammar analyses helps to raise language…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Grammar, Language Variation, English (Second Language)
Harman, Ruth M.; Khote, Nihal – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2018
The authors explore the theoretical and pedagogical premises of their critical systemic functional linguistics approach, which they developed to challenge the deficit positioning of bilingual students in the Southeast of the United States. As multilingual educators from postcolonial Ireland and India, the theoretical framework has helped the…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Immigration, Social Differences, Academic Discourse
Smith, Adrina O. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study examined the latent factors of dialect variation as they relate to reading achievement of second grade students. Sociocultural theory, identity theories, and critical theory used against a metaphorical backdrop of a bundle of locks were used to illustrate the complexity of language variation and its effect on reading achievement within…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Nonstandard Dialects, Language Variation, Screening Tests
Charkova, Krassimira D.; Halliday, Laura J. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2011
This study examined how English learners in second-language (SL) and foreign-language (FL) contexts employ tense backshifting in indirect reported speech. Participants included 35 international students in the United States, 37 Bulgarian speakers of English, 38 Bosnian speakers of English, and 41 native English speakers. The instrument involved…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Semantics, Morphemes, Second Language Learning
Cavallaro, Francesco; Chin, Ng Bee – World Englishes, 2009
Language attitude studies have shown that the majority language and its speakers tend to be rated positively along status, intelligence, and power dimensions ("Educated", "Successful", "Intelligent"), while the minority variety and its speakers elicit positive responses in the solidarity semantic category…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, Metalinguistics, Semantics, Language Attitudes

Deignan, A.; Gabrys, D.; Solska, A. – ELT Journal, 1997
Reports on a translation exercise undertaken by Polish learners of English which revealed how metaphorical expressions vary between the two languages and how this variation confuses learners. Suggests that group discussion and comparison of metaphors in both languages will increase students' comprehension and use of metaphors. (nine references)…
Descriptors: College Students, Concept Formation, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language)