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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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Folk Stories and Social Identification in Multilingual Classrooms
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Creese, Angela; Wu, Chao-Jung; Blackledge, Adrian – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2009
This paper considers the processes of using folk stories for the teaching of community languages in a UK complementary school. We look at the appropriation of folk stories by teachers to teach young people Mandarin while also considering their possibilities as heritage texts. We consider how the teacher and students use the folk story as…
Descriptors: Folk Culture, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Multilingualism
Is This Content-Based Language Teaching?
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Creese, Angela – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2005
Much of the content-based language teaching (CBLT) literature describes the benefits to be gained by integrating content with language teaching aims and rejects the formal separation between "content" and "language" as a pedagogic necessity for language learning. This paper looks at interactions in classrooms in English schools where educational…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Secondary Schools, Integrated Curriculum