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Jacobs, G. M. – Online Submission, 2006
The present article suggests that teachers bring students' attention to the link between language and bias against nonhuman animals. First, the social phenomena that have brought our attention to the issue of what is known as speciesism ("a failure, in attitude or practice, to accord any nonhuman being equal consideration and respect",…
Descriptors: Animals, Bias, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Charles, Maggie – English for Specific Purposes, 2006
This study investigates the phraseological patterning that occurs in reporting clauses used to make references to others' research. It examines finite reporting clauses with "that"-clause complement and draws upon two corpora of theses written by native speakers in contrasting disciplines: approximately 190,000 words in politics/international…
Descriptors: Citations (References), Verbs, Semantics, Morphemes
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Carder, Maurice – Journal of Research in International Education, 2006
Students successfully completing an International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma course of study may, under certain conditions, be awarded a Bilingual Diploma. Since many students in international schools may be expected to be bilingual, and bilingualism, properly nurtured, has been shown to have metalinguistic and cognitive advantages, it would be…
Descriptors: International Schools, Bilingualism, Advanced Placement Programs, Metalinguistics
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Williams, Lawrence – Foreign Language Annals, 2006
This article addresses a pervasive problem of concern to teachers of many foreign languages: the use of Web-Based Machine Translation (WBMT) by students who do not understand the complexities of this relatively new tool. Although networked technologies have greatly increased access to many language and communication tools, WBMT is still…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Computer Software, Internet, Translation
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Dooly, Melinda – Language Awareness, 2007
This paper describes a collaborative Internet-based project involving foreign language students and teacher trainees in three different countries. The project involved both online collaboration with international partners and face-to-face classroom activities and was designed not only to facilitate purposeful, authentic language use, but also to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Activities, Learning Motivation, Class Activities
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Guk, Iju; Kellogg, David – Language Teaching Research, 2007
Vygotsky's "zone of proximal development (ZPD)" has become associated with the individual "scaffolding" of learners. As a result, because teachers need to teach the whole class, many public school teachers have had to dismiss the concept as unworkable. Yet Vygotsky himself was chiefly concerned with public school teaching and…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Public School Teachers, Social Environment, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
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Achugar, Mariana; Schleppegrell, Mary; Oteiza, Teresa – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2007
Classrooms around the world are becoming more multilingual and teachers in all subject areas are faced with new challenges in enabling learners' academic language development without losing focus on content. These challenges require new ways of conceptualizing the relationship between language and content as well as new pedagogies that…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Learning Processes
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Savage, Robert; Blair, Rebecca; Rvachew, Susan – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2006
This article explores young children's facility in phonological awareness tasks requiring either the detection or the articulation of head, coda, onset, and rime subsyllabic units shared in word pairs. Data are reported from 70 nonreading children and 21 precocious readers attending preschools. Prereading children were able to articulate shared…
Descriptors: Phonology, Reading Skills, Preschool Children, Articulation (Speech)
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Littlewood, William; Danli, Li – Language Awareness, 2006
This paper explores the sociolinguistic awareness in English of tertiary level students in Hong Kong and Wuhan (Mainland China). The language data consisted of specific instances when a native speaker presenter made changes, in the course of oral delivery, to the written text of a conference paper that she had prepared in advance. Matched pairs of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Majors (Students), Native Speakers
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Verhoeven, Ludo – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2007
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relations between early bilingualism and phonological awareness in a sample of 75 Turkish-Dutch bilingual kindergarten children living in The Netherlands. In a longitudinal design, the children's first (L1) and second (L2) language abilities were measured at the beginning and end of…
Descriptors: Language Dominance, Phonology, Phonological Awareness, Phonemic Awareness
Fishman, Joshua A. – Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, 1993
This paper highlights a new approach to the topic of language consciousness. Although a good deal has already been learned about the topic in connection with such questions as: "When and among whom does language consciousness arise?"; "When is it stronger and when is it weaker?"; and "What does it lead its adherents to do…
Descriptors: Cultural Background, Ethnic Groups, Ethnicity, Language Planning
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Language Arts, 1997
Presents brief annotations of 30 children's trade books published in 1996 considered to be outstanding for their enhancement of language awareness among students in grades K-8. (SR)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Language Arts, Language Usage
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Borg, Simon – Language Awareness, 1996
Reviews issues presented in an earlier article on the potential of language awareness as a methodology in foreign language teaching and teacher training. The article reflects on the relationship between linguistic theory and language pedagogy and argues for the need for a collaborative rather than antagonistic rapport between linguists and…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Linguistic Theory, Metalinguistics, Second Language Learning
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Davis, Hayley – Language Sciences, 1997
Contrasts lay and "professional" metalinguistic knowledge from the viewpoint that linguistic issues concern all speakers of language. The article maintains that linguists firmly believe in a major difference between lay and theoretical metadiscursive remarks because linguists persist in believing in the objectivity of linguistic facts.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Concept Formation, Discourse Analysis, Language Attitudes
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Bolitho, R.; Carter, R.; Hughes, R.; Ivanic, R.; Masuhara, H.; Tomlinson, B. – ELT Journal, 2003
This article was written interactively over an extended period of consultation and explores questions concerning the theory and practice of language awareness, its descriptive orientations, its relationship with critical social dimensions, and its connections with current theories of language teaching and learning. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Metalinguistics, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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