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Critical Multilingual Language Awareness among Migrant Students: Cultivating Curiosity and a Linguistics of Participation
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Christina Hedman; Linda Fisher – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
This paper draws from a collaborative project in which we piloted a Critical Multilingual Language Awareness approach (CMLA) in a preparatory class for recently arrived secondary school students in Sweden. We adapted material on Language Awareness from "We Are Multilingual" (https://www.wamcam.org). This adapted approach followed the…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Metalinguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
"It Ain't What You Say. It's the Way You Say It": Adapting the Matched Guise Technique (MGT) to Raise Awareness of Accentedness Stereotyping Effects among Swedish Pre-Service Teachers
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Deutschmann, Mats; Borgström, Eric; Falk, Daroon Yassin; Steinvall, Anders; Svensson, Johan – Language Awareness, 2023
The study describes a pedagogic adaptation of the matched guise technique with the aim to raise linguistic self-awareness of L2 accentedness stereotyping effects among Swedish pre-service teachers. In the experiment, 290 students attending teacher training programs were exposed to one of two matched guises, representing either L1 accented Swedish,…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Metalinguistics, Swedish
Study Abroad Learners' Metalinguistic and Sociocultural Reflections on Short- and Long-Term International Experiences
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Schwieter, John W.; Ferreira, Aline; Miller, Paul Chamness – Intercultural Education, 2018
English-speaking learners of L2 Spanish who were taking part in a four-week study abroad program in Spain and Japanese-speaking learners of L2 English who were individually studying in year-long abroad experiences participated in the present study. Quantitative and qualitative data from language questionnaires and contact profiles along with…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Student Attitudes, Metalinguistics, Second Language Learning
Unpacking Challenges of Data Commentary Writing in Master's Thesis Projects: An Insider Perspective from Chemical Engineering
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Eriksson, Andreas; Nordrum, Lene – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2018
Background: Data commentary, in-text comments on the visual presentation of data, is acknowledged as a central aspect of academic writing in many engineering disciplines. At the same time, it is a feature that has been shown to be challenging for students. One of the genres in which data commentary plays a significant role in many engineering…
Descriptors: Chemical Engineering, Student Attitudes, Graduate Students, Masters Theses
Rhetorical Meta-Language to Promote the Development of Students' Writing Skills and Subject Matter Understanding
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Pelger, Susanne; Sigrell, Anders – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2016
Background: Feedback is one of the most significant factors for students' development of writing skills. For feedback to be successful, however, students and teachers need a common language--a meta-language--for discussing texts. Not least because in science education such a meta-language might contribute to improve writing training and…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Writing Skills, Feedback (Response), Science Education
Multilingual Affordances in a Swedish Preschool: An Action Research Project
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Ljunggren, Åsa – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2016
This article summarizes the work and the main findings of an action research project that was conducted in an early childhood education and care setting in the city of Malmö, Sweden in the autumn of 2013 and spring 2014. Rönnerman's model (Aktionsforskning i praktiken: förskola och skola på vetenskaplig grund [Action research in practice:…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Action Research, Foreign Countries, Child Care
The Motivational Effects of Crosslinguistic Awareness: Developing Third Language Pedagogies to Address the Negative Impact of the L2 on the L3 Self-Concept
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Henry, Alastair – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2014
Learning a third language (TL) brings with it particular pedagogical demands. In the pedagogy of TL learning now emerging, the development of students' metalinguistic and crosslinguistic awareness is of central importance. In particular, emphasis is placed on the benefits of cross-referencing with supporter languages. While comparisons with…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Self Concept, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning