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Showing 1 to 20 of 85 for “"Language practices"”.
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Language Practices and Processes in English-Medium Higher Education in Uzbekistan
This study on "Language Practices and Processes in English-medium Higher Education in Uzbekistan" critically evaluates the current state of English Medium of Instruction (EMI) and English Medium Education (EME) in the country, looks at the dichotomy of EMI and EME practices and processes at the …
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Family language practices of Kazakh immigrant families in the United States
Guided by the theoretical framework of family language policy, this project aims explore Kazakh immigrants’ family language ideologies, managements, and practices in the United States. Using the semi-structured interview approach, data were collected from three Kazakh immigrant families in Southern …
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Quichua-Spanish language contact in Salcedo, Ecuador: revisiting media lengua syncretic language practices
… might have given rise to Media Lengua, a ‘mixed’ language comprised of a Quichua grammar and Spanish lexicon. Muysken attributes the formation of Media Lengua to relexification, ruling out any influence from other bilingual phenomena. I argue that the only characteristic that distinguishes Media …
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Immigrant language vitality: exploring the language practices of some Nigerian immigrants in Cape Town
This study draws on the conceptual framework of language maintenance and shift to examine the phenomenon of West African migration to post-apartheid South Africa. The study aims to determine how immigrants negotiate language and cultural differences, how attempts to integrate into their new society …
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Language practices and pupil performance in rural and urban Grade 1 primary classrooms in Swaziland
This study of language practices and pupil performance in Grade 1 urban and rural classrooms in Swaziland attempts to analyse and evaluate the Swaziland Language-in- Education Policy in Grade 1 classrooms. It is derived from an observation that within the Swaziland Education System there are two …
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Exploring language practices of immigrant mathematics teachers in multilingual grade six classrooms in South Africa
… classrooms has shown that English additional language learners in the intermediate phase are mostly challenged by the fact that they have to learn mathematics in English, a language that many of them are not fluent in. To enable mathematical understanding, teachers use their own and learners' …
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Democratisation of the classroom:an analysis of teachers' language practices in selected multilingual classrooms of Chibombo, district.
… classrooms are multilingual while the current Language in Education Policy only mentions English as the language of instruction from grade five onwards, it was imperative to study the sociolinguistic situation of the grade 6 classrooms of Chibombo district and their corresponding teachers‟ …
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Democratisation of the classroom:an analysis of teachers' language practices in selected multilingual classrooms of Chibombo, district.
… classrooms are multilingual while the current Language in Education Policy only mentions English as the language of instruction from grade five onwards, it was imperative to study the sociolinguistic situation of the grade 6 classrooms of Chibombo district and their corresponding teachers‟ …
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Language practices of a digital Black feminist community on French Twitter: Gender, race, and sociopolitical discourse
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-15 without embargo terms
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DEMOCRATISATION OF THE CLASSROOM: AN ANALYSIS OF TEACHERS’ LANGUAGE PRACTICES IN SELECTED MULTILINGUAL CLASSROOMS OF CHIBOMBO DISTRICT
… classrooms are multilingual while the current Language in Education Policy only mentions English as the language of instruction from grade five onwards, it was imperative to study the sociolinguistic situation of the grade 6 classrooms of Chibombo district and their corresponding teachers‟ …
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DEMOCRATISATION OF THE CLASSROOM: AN ANALYSIS OF TEACHERS’ LANGUAGE PRACTICES IN SELECTED MULTILINGUAL CLASSROOMS OF CHIBOMBO DISTRICT
… classrooms are multilingual while the current Language in Education Policy only mentions English as the language of instruction from grade five onwards, it was imperative to study the sociolinguistic situation of the grade 6 classrooms of Chibombo district and their corresponding teachers‟ …
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Exploring the literacy and language practices of student-teachers at a South African university: a stance-taking analysis
Literacy and language practices are central to any educational context, and many positive educational outcomes rely on students mastering the challenges associated with academic reading and writing. The overriding aim of this project is to explore the literacy and language practices of the …
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Children's voices: The contribution of informal language practices to the negotiation of knowledge and identity amongst 10-12 year old school pupils
… addresses the ways in which children's informal language practices contribute to their negotiations of knowledge and identity. An ethnographic study of 10-12 year olds' talk in and around school was carried out, which included the collection of continuous tape-recordings of talk across the school …
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Moroccan Immigrants in Granada, Spain: Negotiating language, culture, and identity
… involved characterizing where, when, and how languages are used, utilizing constructs that characterize language use as stable and domain-specific, which references static social categories or bounded ethnolinguistic identities. These long-standing constructs in sociolinguistics are unable to …
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Language Ideologies and Decoloniality in Vernac News
This study examines the language ideologies constructed in the publication Vernac News produced by students at the University of Cape Town. These language ideologies seek to challenge and subvert dominant language practices within the university community. These dominant language ideologies are …
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On the fluidity of languages: A way out of the dilemma in English medium instruction classrooms in Thailand
… of this study is to pay close attention to two language mechanisms in this university. That is, the English Linguistic Gears are an in-house innovation in encouraging content lecturers to use English in one of three levels (‘Gears’): Gear One requires 25 percent of English of the class time; …
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The politics of English : a study of classroom discourses in a township school
… ethnographic study, which investigates 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 …
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Polycentricity and agency in the construction of expatriate teacher identity and pedagogical practice
Expatriate language teachers are often located at the nexus of two or more ideological systems with conflicting educational and linguistic values (Eusafzai, 2015; Scotland, 2014). These conflicts in values along with the more immediate pressure of working within a foreign education institution …
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