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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"sociocultural perspective"”.
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Understanding SLA through peer interactions in a Chinese classroom: A sociocultural perspective
… is a complex process that is situated in sociocultural settings. Classrooms provide such daily life settings in which language acquisition occurs via social interactions among peers and the instructor as well as other mediated means. The purpose of this research study was to examine the …
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An Exploration of Management Fraud in the Nigerian Banking Industry – A Sociocultural Perspective
… fraud aims to explore the relevance of the sociocultural environment in the prevention of management fraud within the context of the Nigerian banking industry. To achieve this, this study explored a sociocultural perspective to viewing management fraud and deconstructed the expressions …
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Rethinking formative assessment from a sociocultural perspective : a practitioner investigation in a history classroom
… to understand formative assessment based on sociocultural learning theories, which view learning as situated and social. It uses tenets distilled from the theories and observed practice to inform how similar conditions could be created that would enable a formative assessment dialogue that …
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Signs of Change in Adolescents Beliefs about learning English in Public School: a Sociocultural Perspective
… teórico foi baseado em estudos da teoria sociocultural (Gallimore & Tharp, 1996; Johnson, 2006; John-Steiner & Mahn, 1996; Kinginger, 2002; Kozulin, 2003, 2004; Kozulin et al, 2003; Lantolf, 1994, 2007; Lantolf & Appel, 1994; Lantolf & Thorne, 2006; Moll, 1996; van der Veer & Valsiner, …
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Living Latin: Exploring a Communicative Approach to Latin Teaching Through a Sociocultural Perspective on Language Learning
… and explores the application of Vygotskian sociocultural theory to learning events taking place under a communicative teaching approach. <br></br><br></br> Research methods were selected pragmatically, with quantitative methods deployed to obtain a comprehensive snapshot of current practice …
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Teacher sense-making of english curriculum reform in China: a sociocultural perspective on teacher change and development
… reforms. This study draws on Vygotsky's sociocultural theory to understand the nature of teacher sense-making of English language curriculum reform in China through the lens of the 'lived experience' of EFL teachers. The research reports on a case study of sixteen English language …
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Enacting and experiencing formative assessment from a sociocultural perspective : a case study in a Year 4 classroom
… for formative assessment practices with sociocultural approaches underrepresented, and younger children neglected. The purpose of the study was to develop and enact a sociocultural pedagogy and explore how formative assessment is understood and enabled, in this approach to teaching and …
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An Integration of a Process Approach and Formative Assessment into the Development of Teaching and Learning of ESL Writing in a Malaysian University: A Sociocultural Perspective
… formative assessment could be introduced, from a sociocultural perspective, into the normal classrooms of two Malaysian ESL teachers and 48 learners at a selected Malaysian university. This project was carried out in three phases. Phase 1 gathered documentary and interview data on current issues …
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21st century literacy instruction: African American males' experiences in an English/language arts classroom
… teachers deliver literacy instruction. I adopt a sociocultural perspective of literacy development by focusing on the literacy practices that occurred during literacy events. From a sociocultural perspective, students can be seen as active and capable literacy learners as they experience and …
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Stories worth telling: How one school navigates tensions between innovation and standards
… relation to making work public.</p><p>I used a sociocultural framework, which allowed for an examination of the situation-as-a-whole, to see learning as distributed among people, time and objects, and to view artifacts of student work as boundary objects ---sites of negotiation among people from …
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Toward a theory of how young children learn to read in the ZPD: Implications for research and practice
… social skills. By incorporating Lev Vygotsky's sociocultural perspective, Jean Piaget's dialectical learning, and the concepts of metacognition, mindfulness, and mind-mindedness, a model depicting the dynamics of a shared reading activity is proposed. Implications for research and practice are …
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Generational Theory as a Lens for Approaching Musical Theatre History, 1943-2023, or a Strange Loop
… generational theory. The theory narrates a sociocultural perspective on the evolution of the Broadway musical, a distinctively American art form. The theory could forecast future trends and serve as a helpful framework for teaching musical theatre history.</p>
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Historicizing and Engaging Lindy Hop: The Development, Presence, and Absence of Black Cultural Values and Aesthetics
… Harlem, New York during the 1920s and 30s from a sociocultural perspective, applying the findings to an instance of contemporary Lindy Hop practice at Jazz Attack, a Lindy Hop venue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in order to ascertain where elements of Black culture are present or absent. As Lindy …
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Constructing a Joint Story -Writing Space: The Dynamics of Young Children's Collaboration at Computers
… afforded by peer discourse. Framed by a sociocultural perspective and relying on discourse analysis, this study focused on how children's collaborative roles and patterns changed over time. Examination of video data and children's computer products revealed that (a) children's interaction …
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Electronic role-play as a manifestation of open task computer-assisted language learning: a case study
… (with German). The ERP task was informed by a sociocultural perspective of second language acquisition (SLA) and task-based learning, and was embedded in a constructivist approach. The purpose of the ERP was to create meaningful opportunities for advanced foreign language practice for higher …
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Does a rising intonation at the end of a spoken statement affect a witness's credibility?
… speakers. The results are interpreted from a sociocultural perspective, with the suggestion that rising intonation, given its frequency of use amongst Australian speakers, does not seem to indicate that the speaker is uncertain about their statements.
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What Is It Like to Be a Computer Teacher
… the Enframing process in schools. Framed by a sociocultural perspective of technology and informed by Heidegger's conceptual reasoning, this study focused on how computer teachers created and sustained a learning environment in the computer-mediated context, how computer teachers' roles and …
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People in pressure cookers: enactment of literacy identities of struggling first grade readers across reading contexts in a high stakes testing culture
… students’ literacies and identities from a sociocultural perspective that goes beyond the confines of deficit views and allows student to draw on the literacies they bring to school to build bridges to other literacies.
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Korean American Students' Language and Literacy Practices at a Korean Language School
… School (KLS) in the United States. From a sociocultural perspective, it focuses on the KLS, a social context where the students are exposed to and engage in Korean language and literacy practices. This study investigates what kinds of language and literacy practices in Korean and/or English …
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Exploring the out-of-school writing practices of three children aged 9 - 10 years old and how these practices travel across and within the domains of home and school
… and school writing practices, the study took a sociocultural perspective underpinned by Bronfenbrenner’s (1979) ecological systems theory framework. A review of the relevant literature led to the utilisation of a multimodal definition of writing and the framing of the research as a qualitative, …
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