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Zachary Maher; Carolyn Mazzei; Ebony Terrell Shockley; Tatiana Thonesavanh; Jan Edwards – Reading Research Quarterly, 2024
Despite decades of sociolinguistic research, African American Language (AAL) remains stigmatized throughout the United States education system. There have been proposals to counteract this through curricula and/or ideological interventions targeted at teachers that seek to validate AAL while maintaining Dominant American English (DAE) as an…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Elementary School Teachers, Kindergarten, Grade 1
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Asli-Badarneh, Abeer; Asadi, Ibrahim – Journal of Research in Reading, 2023
Background: Arabic is recognised as diglossic; one manifestation of diglossia is the co-existence of two varieties of the language used in different social settings: standard (or literary) Arabic (StA) and spoken Arabic (SpA). The study investigated the impact of lexical-phonological distance in Arabic (identical, cognate, unique, which are…
Descriptors: Phonology, Arabic, Language Variation, Grade 1
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Thanyathamrongkul, Rattima; Singhasiri, Wareesiri; Keyuravong, Sonthida – Issues in Educational Research, 2018
Prompted by UNESCO initiatives on promoting world literacy (UNESCO, 2005, 2014), many countries, including Thailand, have launched language education policies to push literacy development forward. Accordingly, this study seeks to investigate the policies promoting literacy in Thailand and their implementation at the local level. Language education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Thai, Literacy Education, Educational Policy