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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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Edu-Buandoh, Dora F.; Otchere, Gloria – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2012
One of the common practices in many basic schools in Ghana is the constant reminder to students to speak English at all times, and the threat of sanctions to those who do not abide by this language regulation. Considering that Ghana is a multilingual country, one would have thought that any of the Ghanaian languages can be used by students at…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Sanctions, Multilingualism, Foreign Countries
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Margutti, Piera – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2011
Drawing from a corpus of video-recorded classes in 6 and 7 grade groups in an Italian secondary school and in two 3 grade groups in a primary school, the article investigates one specific format used by teachers to reproach students for their untoward conduct. The analysis focuses on cases where, in contrast to other less explicit formats,…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Student Placement, Classroom Techniques, Foreign Countries
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Ioannidou, Elena; Sophocleous, Andry – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2010
This study compares teachers' language use and covert language attitudes in primary and secondary state education in Cyprus. The Ministry of Education and Culture encourages the systematic use of Standard Modern Greek in the formal learning environment of the classroom. Yet, our class observations and teacher interviews demonstrate that the Greek…
Descriptors: Dialects, Language Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Greek
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Chen, Yumin – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2010
Recent reforms to curriculum standards in China have highlighted for the first time "emotion and attitude education". This new focus is the pedagogic backdrop to the research reported in this article-an exploration of how evaluative stance is construed through the co-deployment of linguistic and visual resources in primary and secondary textbooks…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Linguistics, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
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Vaish, Viniti – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2008
This paper analyzes pedagogic practice in primary and secondary Singaporean English classrooms in terms of dialogicity. The dominant interactional patterns in Singaporean English classrooms are initiation-response-evaluation (IRE), whole class lecture and individual seatwork in which the students give either one word answers or remain silent.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Davies, Julia – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2004
This paper presents data collected from small discussion groups in English classrooms. The project from which this research is taken examines the processes of pupils' learning through talk-related activities and contributes to debates about boys' relative under-achievement in comparison to girls. Although the project as a whole looked at the…
Descriptors: Students, Learning Processes, Females, Discussion Groups