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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"language awareness"”.
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Generic pronouns and their influence on the speakers' language awareness
The English language is a genderless language in which nouns receive grammatical gender through natural gender assignment. The generic pronoun encoded in English is the pronoun he, which next to its secondary meaning of the generic also has the primary meaning of the third person masculine …
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Teachers' understanding of critical language awareness and their enactment of this understanding in the classroom
… critical literacy in order to implement Critical Language Awareness (CLA) as defined in the newly revised CAPS curriculum. Teachers need to master teaching CLA before its implementation in terms of the curriculum, introduced incrementally in 2012 in Grade 10. In order to determine teachers' …
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Teacher language awareness in a Swedish bilingual school for the deaf: Two portraits of grammar knowledge in practice
… explores the relationship between teachers' language knowledge and their grammar teaching practices within the context of a bilingual school for the deaf in Sweden, a country that has demonstrated success in educating deaf children bilingually in written Swedish and Sweden's signed language. …
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Exploring the emergent literacy needs of preschoolers with language impairments
… difficulties as early as possible. Children with language impairments are one group of children who have been shown to be at-risk for literacy problems. Their difficulties likely stem from the challenges they tend to experience with acquiring emergent literacy skills as preschoolers. Very little …
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Constructing Meaning: A Critical Linguistic Perspective on News Discourse
This study has implications for teaching critical language awareness to adults as well as students in and out of a school setting, and opens new grounds for research that would help devise strategies and methods of achieving this educational goal.
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Perspectives on bi/multilingual pedagogies: insights from a third-year linguistics module at a South African university
… in South Africa. Drawing on the notions of language ideologies, translanguaging and critical language awareness, the study explores the use of bi/multilingual pedagogies by third year linguistics lecturers and their students at a selected university in the Western Cape in South Africa. A …
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We be talkin': Critical explorations into how Black adolescents experience a Black language book club
Deficit views about Black language have circulated throughout society since before desegregation. However, Black literary societies were used as a way to counter hegemony by developing the language of the Black community and continue to exist (Muhammad, 2021). This single case study sought to …
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SPANISH-SPEAKING IMMIGRANTS IN A U.S. MIDWESTERN COMMUNITY: AN EXPLORATION OF ATTITUDES TOWARDS SPANISH, SPANISH IN THE U.S., LANGUAGE MAINTENANCE, AND BILINGUALISM
… reactions that people have towards the language. One hundred participants living in three different cities in Indiana completed a background questionnaire, a language attitudes questionnaire, and a one-on-one interview about their attitudes towards Spanish. It is imperative to know about …
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Teaching Reading As An Integrated Skill: An Evaluation of Two Popular ESL Textbooks
… so too does the need for effective English language instruction, and with that, effective instructional materials. With a growing population of adult English language learners with below basic prose literacy, the need for effective adult English language literacy instruction is also evident. …
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Phonological Awareness and Foreign Accent: A Handbook for German EFL Teachers
… However, the pronunciation of adult second language (L2) learners is extremely difficult to change, and L2 native-like pronunciation is rarely achieved after early childhood. The latest research suggests that explicit instruction about phonological awareness can contribute to better spoken …
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Speaking Identity: Language Investment and Agency Among Spanish Heritage Speakers
… identities and invest in their heritage language amid competing social forces. Drawing on frameworks of identity, agency, and critical language awareness, the study explores how Spanish shapes participants’ Latine identities and what factors influence their language investment. Using a …
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Language Ideology & Pedagogical Views Across Roles: Examining a Spanish Heritage Language Program
… within a university-level Spanish Heritage Language (SHL) program in Arizona, focusing on their language ideologies and critical language education efforts. The study, rooted in Critical Language Awareness (CLA) and Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy (CSP) frameworks, challenges deficit-based …
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Design, development, implementation and evaluation of a purilingual ICALL system for romance languages aimed at advanced learners
Plurilingual teaching and learning of Romance languages exploits the similarities between these languages to teach them contrastively and to raise the language awareness of the learner. Several European projects have been devoted to plurilingual teaching and learning of Romance languages. The …
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What are the factors influencing the relationship between school language policy and the literacy proficiency of learners at Grade 7 level?
… success in formal education is based on the language and literacy proficiency of the learner. In addition, the relationship between the home language and the language of learning and teaching at school also influences the level of success the learner attains. This dissertation, a single case …
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Teaching Strategies and Adaptations of Teachers in Multiculturally Diverse Classrooms in Seventh-day Adventist K-8 Schools in North America
… of the teachers. The least used paradigm was the language awareness paradigm. Observations and interviews corroborated the data from the survey. The various paradigms (Banks, 1994) were not closely related to goals (Nel, 1993). The greatest challenges experienced by teachers were language related. …
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An approach from a Vygotskian viewpoint to the teaching of poetry in German in the Irish primary school. An Empirical Study.
… to the appreciation of poetry in a foreign language, in this case German, by children with a limited competency in that language. The study focuses on the child in the context of the present curriculum for Irish primary schools. Based on a socio-cultural constructivist ethos, it examines a …
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Structural changes observed in the German language as used in Namibia: A study on the basis of texts from the Allgemeinen Zeitung
… titled Structural changes observed in the German language as used in Namibia: A study on the basis of texts from the Allgemeinen Zeitung analyses and examines the structural changes in German Language as it is used in Namibia. The German language found its way to Namibia during the German colonial …
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Learning Irish in English-medium primary schools in Ireland: understanding children’s views and experiences through a child-centred methodology
… of the communicative approach, where language use is both the aim and the means of language learning, was also explored. The conceptual framework, informed by Biesta’s domains of education, was used to provide coherence to second language learning theories. This was complemented by the …
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Using Novels in English Language Teaching in Cyprus
… – and novels in particular – in English language teaching and learning. Literature has always been a perpetual feature of language learning, and the transition from the aesthetic study of literature to its use as a resource for linguistic development in the language classroom has marked …
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Applying Sociocultural Theory to a Language Classroom Environment with Second-Year Students of College Russian
… educational linguistics, and the study of second language acquisition (SLA) where this focus is called the Sociocultural Theory (SCT). SCT states that language learning is a socially mediated activity, i.e., an activity that is ‘mediated’ by the society or learning environment in which it takes …
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