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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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Martin-del-Campo, Beatriz; Garcia, Lidia Rodriguez; Lorca, Manuela Martinez; de las Heras Minguez, Gema; del Rosario Diaz-Perea, Maria – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2010
In this paper we describe an action-research project that our research team proposed to a group of teachers working in a special education school. The main idea was to introduce new methods to teach reading and writing in their school, mainly constructivist-based ones on teaching the function of writing text. In this paper we focus on the process…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Literacy Education, Reading Instruction, Special Education
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Lo, Adrienne – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2009
This paper examines the ideologies and practices surrounding respect at a Korean American heritage language school in California. It illustrates the interaction between locally circulating metadiscourses about children's dispositions, intentions, and identities and the enforcement of classroom norms of respect. In some cases, teachers accommodated…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Ideology, Korean Americans, Language Acquisition
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Reeves, Jenelle – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2009
Within a sociocultural frame, teacher knowledge finds its origin in the entirety of teachers' lived experiences, not just those experiences within teacher preparation. Teachers' biographies, including their experiences as language learners, shape their knowledge base for teaching English to speakers of other languages (ESOL). This study…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Teacher Characteristics, Linguistics, Knowledge Base for Teaching
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Forman, Ross – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2008
Mainstream ESL pedagogy has been dominated by monolingual methods for the past century, but the default teaching mode in many EFL contexts is in fact bilingual. A challenge we currently face is to find fresh ways of describing such bilingual teaching. This paper attempts to begin to do so by taking the notions of scaffolding and…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Monolingualism, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
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Sharpe, Tina – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2008
The dialogic nature of discourse which stems from the work of [Bakhtin, M. (1994). Speech genres and other late essays. In P. Morris (Ed.), "The dialogic imagination" (pp. 81-87). London: Edward Arnold. (Original work published 1986)] provides important understandings in an investigation into the nature of classroom discourse. Using analytical…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Linguistic Theory, Foreign Countries, High Schools
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Love, Kristina; Arkoudis, Sophie – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2006
The international marketing of school education has gathered momentum in the Asia Pacific region, where an English medium education is prized by many parents. This paper investigates the responses of a group of teachers in Australia to the needs of international students in their school. The analysis of a 1 h professional discussion between four…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Specialists, Language of Instruction, Educational Needs