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Public Stories of Mathematics Educators: Challenges and Affordances of Learning Mathematics in a Second Language
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Truxaw, Mary P.; Rojas, Eliana D. – Journal of Urban Mathematics Education, 2014
In this public story, we explore challenges and affordances of learning mathematics when the learner's primary language is not the primary language of instruction. We, the authors, are Mary Truxaw, a predominantly monolingual (English, with limited Spanish) mathematics educator and Eliana Rojas, a bilingual (Spanish and English)…
Descriptors: Affordances, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Teachers, Personal Narratives
The Complexity Turn in Educational Linguistics
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Hult, Francis M. – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2010
In the wake of conversations about integrating macro- and micro-levels of linguistic analysis over the last 50 years, and following theoretical and methodological debates in the 1990s about investigating the dynamics of entire social systems, complexity theory is coming of age in educational linguistics. Central to the application of complexity…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Applied Linguistics, Multilingualism
Language Magazine: The Journal of Communication & Education, 2002.
Ward, Ben, Ed. – Language Magazine: The Journal of Communication & Education, 2002
These 12 issues of the journal include articles on such topics as the following: classical languages; early literacy; ancient languages; study abroad; teacher training; dialects; computer uses in education; classroom techniques; illustrated dictionaries for English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) students; communication through poetry; bilingual…
Descriptors: Ancient History, Bilingual Education, Classical Languages, Classroom Techniques