Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Classroom discourses"”.
-
The politics of English : a study of classroom discourses in a township school
… discourse practices in English subject classrooms at Mziwethu Senior Secondary, a Western Cape township high school, where the subject is taught as a second language. The data were collected between October 1997 and March 1999. Working within a critical theory framework, my assumptions …
-
The academic, linguistic and social development of bilingual pupils in secondary education: issues of diagnosis, pedagogy and culture
… to be denied access to the full range of normal classroom discourses, being denied opportunities to initiate discussions, ask questions or work in small groups. When pupils attempt to take control of discourses themselves, their cognitive-linguistic inputs, imperfectly expressed, are often …
-
Positioning students as (non)writers: A case study of disengaged pedagogy in a suburban primary school
… ethnographic approach, carried out with classroom observations, field notes, video-recording and semi-structured interviews, necessitated particular attention to the specific practices of this 'niche' (Nystrand, Gamoran & Carbonaro, 1998) environment. Therefore, although I planned to …
-
A Macroscopic Re-examination of Language and Gender: A Corpus-Based Case Study in University Instructor Discourses
… gender, this study used a corpus of instructor discourses to quantitatively compare 87 general linguistic features employed by male and female university instructors in their classroom discourses. As gender was defined as a dynamic social construct based on the prevailing dynamic approach in the …
-
"Education at last! Taiwanese grandmothers ""go to school"""
… narratives, master narratives about elders, and classroom discourses, this study explores the historical construction of their sociolinguistic marginalization and their negotiation and resistance of such marginalization. The majority of the elderly women were denied education when they were …
-
English-only instruction: A comparative case-study of a rural and an urban basic school in Ghana
… of English-only instruction on students in two classrooms, one in rural Ghana and another in urban Ghana. The research questions are: 1) How do students whose mother tongue is not English respond to English-only instruction? and 2) What are the distinguishing effects of the policy on rural and …
-
Wild Country Hall: Children’s learning at a residential outdoor education centre.
… be as a perspective on learning? • What are the discourses at Wild Country Hall and how are they different to schooling discourses? • How might neo-Liberal discursive practices, including performativity and current schooling orthodoxies have affected the pedagogic practices at this centre? The …
-
Multilingual teacher-talk in Secondary school classrooms in Yola, North-East Nigeria: Exploring the interface of language and knowledge using legitimation code theory and terminology theory
… talk, as illustrated by code switching in the classroom, have been repetitive and descriptive, and have for a while not been underpinned by substantially new or different questions (Lin, 2013:15). First, many of the studies in the literature have, for instance, concluded that there is a …
-
Agency as dynamic and rhizomatic: An exploration of learner identities in two secondary classrooms
… as lines of flight that disrupt dominant discourses. As outlined in the New Zealand Curriculum, New Zealand schools are charged with the task of strengthening students’ key competencies (Ministry of Education, 2007a) to lay a foundation for lifelong learning. Learner agency is embedded in …