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Brown, Angela Khristin – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
There is a good child, of any race, who is bullied. And as he grows older, He joins a hate group or a gang too, was bullied by every race, who bullied me. And as I grew older fought for equality for everyone. This is why I became an activist. Thesis why I am a poet. God asks are unwilling to die, fighting for what you believe. This is where I…
Descriptors: Poetry, African American Literature, Latin American Literature, Language Usage
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Fernández, Ana M. – Hispania, 2021
The detrimental effects of neoliberalism accompany globalization. The paradoxes generated by the global-regional gap have revealed local cultures' double vulnerability to national and international development. Miguel Pereira fictionalizes this complex phenomenon in the film "Verónico Cruz. La deuda interna" (Argentina, 1988). Inspired…
Descriptors: Spanish, Films, Languages for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning
Crosson, Amy C.; Moore, Debra – Grantee Submission, 2017
A majority of the challenging words that adolescent readers encounter in school texts are morphologically complex and from the Latinate layer of English. For these words, bound roots carry important meaning, such as the relation between innovative and its bound root, nov, meaning "new." This study investigated the effects of instruction…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Middle School Students, High School Students, Intervention
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Dyrness, Andrea – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2016
This article explores the role and meaning of auto-formación (self-formation) in the making of feminist, activist identities among Latin American activist women in Madrid, Spain. I argue that auto-formación, a collective process of self-recovery and consciousness-raising that is shared by third world feminists around the world, allows migrant…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Feminism, Latin Americans
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Schröder, Konrad – Language Learning Journal, 2018
The paper gives an overview of FLT in the German-speaking regions of Europe from medieval times to the present day, within a framework of language politics, communicative needs and educational ideologies. The languages addressed are French, Italian, Spanish, English, Russian and Turkish. Basic social and professional data of the various groups of…
Descriptors: Modern Languages, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Educational History
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Morley, Louise; Alexiadou, Nafsika; Garaz, Stela; González-Monteagudo, José; Taba, Marius – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2018
Internationalisation is a dominant policy discourse in the field of higher education today, driven by an assemblage of economic, social and educational concerns. It is often presented as an ideologically neutral, coherent, disembodied, knowledge-driven policy intervention--an unconditional good. Mobility is one of the key mechanisms through which…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Higher Education, International Cooperation, College Faculty
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Dhouib, Jawhar Ahmed – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
While the first wave of Caribbean immigrant writers brilliantly explored race-related issues, black Britons like Andrea Levy, Zadie Smith and Caryl Phillips, among others, have sought to depart from earlier fiction, motivated in their project by the changing white face of Britain. In this article, I would like to argue that cultural change in…
Descriptors: Blacks, Immigrants, Latin Americans, Novels
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Cárdenas Curiel, Lucía; Ponzio, Christina M. – Journal of Multilingual Education Research, 2021
This article proposes ways to authentically amplify writer's workshop for emergent bilinguals. Through the study of one bilingual teacher's mediation in teaching, we examined the affordances that translanguaging and transmodal practices have for emergent bilingual students' writing processes. In this case study, we focused on a writing sequence…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Multiple Literacies, Sociocultural Patterns, Literacy
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Diaz-Strong, Daysi Ximena – Harvard Educational Review, 2021
In this article, Daysi Ximena Diaz-Strong draws on interviews with Mexican and Central American 1.25 generation undocumented young adults to examine what shaped their access to financial resources in their college-going transitions. Although scholars have demonstrated that school agents and peers are critical to accessing resources and that…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Hispanic American Students, Latin Americans, Undocumented Immigrants
Crosson, Amy C.; McKeown, Margaret G.; Robbins, Kelly P.; Brown, Kathleen J. – Grantee Submission, 2019
Purpose: In this clinical focus, the authors argue for robust vocabulary instruction with emergent bilingual learners both in inclusive classroom settings and in clinical settings for emergent bilinguals with language and literacy disorders. Robust vocabulary instruction focuses on high-utility academic words that carry abstract meanings and…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Bilingualism, Inclusion, Teaching Methods
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Ellis, Jason Brent; Abreu-Ellis, Carla; Moor, Alexa; Aukerman, Kaitlyn; Buttil, Michael; Edwards, Alyssa – American Secondary Education, 2017
This article demonstrates how teachers can represent a different culture in their instructional planning while still meeting state-mandated content standards. It shares the lessons learned by practicing and pre-service teachers through an experience designed to help them become more culturally responsive teachers. Participants spent a month in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Culturally Relevant Education, Instructional Development, Academic Standards
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Pakulak, Eric; Hampton Wray, Amanda; Longoria, Zayra; Garcia Isaza, Alejandra; Stevens, Courtney; Bell, Theodore; Burlingame, Sarah; Klein, Scott; Berlinski, Samuel; Attanasio, Orazio; Neville, Helen – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2017
The relationship between early adversity and numerous negative outcomes across the lifespan is evident in a wide range of societies and cultures (e.g., Pakulak, Stevens, & Neville, 2018). Among the most affected neural systems are those supporting attention, self-regulation, and stress regulation. As such, these systems represent targets for…
Descriptors: Intervention, Cultural Differences, Correlation, Cultural Context
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de Oliveira, Marcos Henrique Abreu; Fischer, Robert – Physics Education, 2017
Ciênsação, an open online repository for hands-on experiments, has been developed to convince teachers in Latin America that science is best experienced first hand. Permitting students to experiment autonomously in small groups can be a challenging endeavour for educators in these countries. We analyse the reasons that cause hesitation of teachers…
Descriptors: Science Experiments, Hands on Science, Science Course Improvement Projects, Student Research
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Zhang, Yining; Lin, Chin-Hsi – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2020
As online K-12 education continues to expand, concerns about its quality have taken centre stage. This study utilised online learning satisfaction as an outcome indicator for the success of online learning, and investigated student- and teacher-level factors that affected it among 226 high school students taking online world language courses from…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, High School Teachers, Educational Quality, High School Students
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Molina-Naar, José – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2016
The sociopolitical, sociocultural, and sociolinguistic issues many Latino immigrants face as they embark on the process of adjusting to American society have been depicted by many Hispanic American writers in the United States. Julia Álvarez's "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" attempts to raise awareness of these issues through…
Descriptors: Novels, Latin Americans, Consciousness Raising, Sociolinguistics
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