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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Osborn, Terry A.; Reagan, Timothy G.; Freiberg, Jo Ann – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2011
When the International Society for Language Studies (ISLS) was founded in 2002 and the journal that is now "Critical Inquiry in Language Studies (CILS)" was in the planning stages, we recognized a need for an interdisciplinary, or perhaps even transdisciplinary (see Kaufman, Moss, & Osborn, 2003), venue for the publication of research on language…
Descriptors: Language Research, Research Methodology, Criticism, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Ness, Molly K.; Osborn, Terry A. – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2010
Reading teacher education, as is true with much of higher education, is plagued with pressures of providing "here and now" answers to very complex, entangled issues. The reading methods course becomes the site of many of these pressures, despite considerable insights provided by scholars such as Kumaravadivelu (2001) that "methods" may be more of…
Descriptors: Reading Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Curriculum
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Reagan, Timothy; Osborn, Terry A. – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2004
The case of South Africa is implicative for language studies. Although there has been a growing sensitivity among some scholars and policy makers with respect to the need to address the historically disadvantaged condition of the African languages in South Africa, these developments have been over-shadowed, occurring within the context of the…
Descriptors: African Languages, Models, Interdisciplinary Approach, Foreign Countries