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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"Classroom Context"”.
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Expanding the concept of scaffolding : an ethnography in the Chinese university English classroom context
… and teacher in a Chinese university English classroom located in Mainland China. Using the Vygotskian theory to analyze scaffolding events which occur during three transcripted lessons, it expands the present research on scaffolding. Previous research has predominantly utilized Wood, Bruner …
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The development of pedagogical content knowledge of a mathematics teaching intern: the role of collaboration, curriculum, and classroom context
… the role of collaboration, curriculum, and the classroom context in the development of pedagogical content knowledge of a mathematics teaching intern. Additionally, I investigated the nature of the collaborative process between the teaching intern and his mentor teacher as they collaborated on …
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The development of grammatical morphemes in the speech of young second language learners within a conversational context
… children using English as a second language in a classroom context. The theoretical standpoint adopted is that first and second language development in 'natural' contexts is facilitated by the same underlying processes, and that central to this development is the notion of meaningful interaction, …
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Korean kindergarten children's play choice: Activity structure and sex-type
This study investigated the classroom context variables which influence the socialization of sex-typed behavior of Korean kindergarten children. The study focused on the Korean kindergarten children's different activity choices in the classroom and the variables which influence this behavior.
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College-level ELLs in two English composition courses: the transition from ESL to the mainstream
… academic behavior particularly related to classroom learning during their transition between English 101 and English 201. The student academic behaviors are particularly linguistic, based on the five langauge skills reading, writing, speaking, listening, grammar. These behaviors will be …
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The Writing Self-Perception of Four Girl Writers
… of four adolescent girl writers in a writing classroom context. Data included responses to the WSPQ, field notes of classroom observations conducted over a six month period, interview and focus group transcripts. A holistic picture of each girl writer (Hayden, Steph, Casey, and Abby) is …
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Engaging differences linguistic diversity and critical literacy pedagogy in the classroom
… issues of language and diversity in the classroom.The study foregrounds the nature of students' and teachers' engagements with linguistic diversity and the role of the teacher in critical literacy. In South Africa there is very little classroom based research which shows how students and …
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A study examining the impact of scaffolding young children's acquisition of literacy in primary grades
… in literacy learning in a first grade classroom setting. The complexities and nuisances of scaffolding present in the elementary school classroom context during reading and writing instruction are examined. Ten first graders, five from a pilot study an five from the case study, are …
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Number sense in a secondary school context
… junior secondary mathematics lessons as contexts for distributed mathematical activity. Two Year 9 classes and one Year 10 class from the same school constituted case studies; two case studies were lower band and one was middle band. All three teachers continued with their normal …
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How Do Students From Different Socioeconomic Backgrounds Respond to Mathematics Instruction? An Exploration From Diverse School Settings
… during mathematics lessons in six diverse fifth-classrooms. Using observations, transcripts of lessons, and interviews as a guide, the author concludes that the participation of low-income students in mathematics lessons is largely influenced by the classroom settings in which the students are …
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“Mirrors, windows, and sliding glass doors”: A case study of teaching and learning for affective outcomes in comprehensive musicianship through performance for band
… supremacy, racial terror, and racism, and the classroom context being majority White, two additional sub-research questions were added during the study. How does one music teacher plan, facilitate, and assess anti-racist affective experiences in a majority White classroom context? What meaning …
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Getting on the Same Page: The Hermeneutics of Peer Feedback in Composition Classrooms
… editing, and peer response) within composition classrooms as hermeneutic or interpretive acts. Grounding peer feedback within philosophical hermeneutics explains why empirical research and anecdotal evidence illustrate contradictions regarding peer feedbacks benefits to students. Students' …
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A new body of order: designing social meaning through performance
… project investigates an order of authority in a classroom context, and the second an order of consent in response to participant concerns around physical intimacy. Both projects build embodied, relational structures that enact regulation, meaning and authority and demonstrate that designing order …
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Supporting teacher implementation of standards based practices
… needed to be immediately applicable to their classroom context. Second, the teachers needed to find the topic relevant and meaningful in order to have high understanding and evident implementation. Third, the administrator needed to be on-site and easily accessible to the teachers for in time …
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The enactment of a curriculum event
In this study a classroom teacher uses an interpretive frame borrowed from performance-centered folklore to describe the curricular, social, and managerial goals contained in a single curriculum event in her fourth grade classroom. Also described are the linguistic, social and pedagogical tools …
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Teaching and learning of number concept in Chinese primary classroom
… and primary mathematics broadly, within a classroom context in China's Inner Mongolia province. Informed by Vygotsky's cultural historical theoretical framework, and using an ethnographic approach - with triangulated data collection methods, the research examined a teacher's approaches to …
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Student Engagement Within Peer-led Literature Circles: Exploring the Thought Styles of Adolescents
… grade students in my writing and literature classroom who asked to read 1984 in literature circles, I explored how students engage with each and with literature within peer-led discussion circles of a relatively difficult text. Participants were taped during peer-led literature circles and …
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A Relationship between Course-level Implementation of First Principles of Instruction and Cognitive Engagement: A Multilevel Analysis
… how students engage in their learning process in classroom context, and the levels of cognitive engagement are conceptualized by the use of cognitive and metacognitive strategies. As the levels of cognitive engagement are thought to be a result of interactions between students and learning …
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Growth mindset-supportive teacher feedback in early elementary math classes: A naturalistic, observational study
… stand to benefit students when they create a classroom environment supportive of a growth mindset by offering relevant and supportive feedback. The majority of research on feedback, however, has been conducted in either lab settings or through classroom interventions and has been restricted to …
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Young Children’s Executive Functions in Context: Classroom Experiences and Measurement Approaches
… are important for young learners in the classroom as they support school readiness, academic achievement and social competence (Blair & Razza, 2007; Riggs et al., 2006). Children show individual differences on these skills and researchers aim to understand how these skills can be …
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