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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"sociocultural theories"”.
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Raising Immigrant Kenyan Children in America: How Families Negotiate Academic and Cultural Issues
… explained how the findings interacted with the sociocultural framework. In general, the goals and experiences of my participating families appeared to resemble those of many other immigrants from other parts of the world living in the U.S. Theoretically, the findings seemed to fit in quite well …
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"""Real Talk"": The Participation of African American and Caribbean American Young Men in a Middle School Book Club"
… in a series of classroom book clubs. I draw on sociocultural theories of literacy development (Rogoff, Gutierrez, Dyson) that present evidence of the importance of understanding literacy practices in relation to the sociocultural contexts in which literacy events occur. Based on data collected …
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ESL teachers’ perceptions of good mentoring practice in Senegal: An indigenous, postcolonial, and sociocultural analysis
… three perspectives—indigenous, postcolonial, and sociocultural theories. From these perspectives, I argue that the teachers’ holistic approach to mentoring reflected principles of indigeneity; postcolonial writings provided a critical perspective related to teaching English in a postcolonial …
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Speaker Investment, Social Networks and Oral Proficiency of Heritage and Classroom Learners of Spanish
… by two main hypotheses rooted in interactionist theories of heritage language acquisition and second language acquisition that include a role for activation (Lantolf & Thorne, 2006; Larsen-Freeman & Cameron, 2008; Mackey & Gass, 2005; Putnam & Sánchez, 2013) and sociocultural theories of learning …
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Saudi teachers' perceptions on reading instruction
… the issues that occurred in the survey results. Sociocultural theories are developed in the study. Findings from the survey indicated that teachers seem to be traditional teachers who enjoyed the old curriculum much more than the new curriculum. Case studies had a range of perceptions of what it …
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Out of the Shadows: Rethinking Response Through the Instructor -Led Peer Conference
… (such as peer response), and also by drawing on sociocultural theories of language (such as those of Vygotsky, Bakhtin, and Voloshinov), this study positions the ILPC as an ideal site for studying response as a situated practice. By attending closely to the contexts of response, it complicates …
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Writing Experiences of Adolescent Girls Identified with Learning Disabilities: A Qualitative Study
Grounded in feminist and sociocultural theories, the purpose of this study was to expand the focus of research in the field of learning disabilities to include descriptions from insiders' perspectives as to what it is like to be an adolescent girl identified with a learning disability in writing. …
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Sociocultural Influences on Body Image Across the Lifespan
… image concerns are prevalent in Western society. Sociocultural theories posit that the media are largely responsible for body image dissatisfaction because they have an omnipresent influence which consistently portrays unrealistically thin females and hyper-muscular males, which are then …
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Teachers' perceptions of bilingualism and bidialectalism: the effect on language arts pedagogy
… how teachers’ perceptions are influenced by sociocultural contexts and shape their language teaching. I draw on sociocultural theories that support the use of students’ lived experiences in the teaching/learning process (Lee, 2006; Moll, Amanti, Neff, & Gonzalez, 2005). The funds of knowledge …
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The Impact of Teaching Methods on Language Learning Strategies Employed by Learners in a Foreign Language Context
… the LLS which can be taught within cognitive and sociocultural theories, based on a clearly designed model. The study also showed that language proficiency has a correlation with the choice of learning strategies. Students' dairies and interviews illustrated that they benefited from the group …
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A sociocultural model of play-based pedagogy for teaching mathematics in diverse Grade R classrooms in South Africa
… mathematics teaching, strategies for promoting a sociocultural model of play, teacher responses to culturally relevant pedagogical models, and the implications of implementing a play-based approach in diverse backgrounds. The research aims to explore the integration of a sociocultural model for …
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Enculturational practices in the teaching of proof in mathematics
… education reform is informed by constructivist theories that forefront student learning of concepts, and by sociocultural theories whose focus is on students’ mastery of mathematical practices. As Cobb (1994) pointed out, these theorizations are inconsistent with one another, leading to conflict …
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The writing development of English language learners from two grades
… development in a one-year period. Guided by the sociocultural theories of learning, different data sources such as classroom observations, interviews with participants, as well as students’ writing samples from the seven cases were collected to delineate the factors that influenced participants' …
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Examiner feedback and learning: What are the characteristics of effective remote feedback in a hierarchic, professional context?
… body communicate to each other. Drawing on sociocultural theories, I argue that this interaction possesses learning potential because between-professional communication supports the development of participants’ reasoning through the alignment of culturally appropriate collective thinking. My …
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Binge Eating in Ethnically Diverse Obese Adolescents
… daily hassles. This result is interpreted using sociocultural theories which posit that the European American culture places individuals at more risk for disordered eating because of the emphasis placed on a thin body image ideal. Therefore, when European American obese adolescents identify …
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Co- and self-regulation in a computer supported collaborative learning environment among Key Stage Three students
… on learning and academic performance. Recently, sociocultural models have begun to argue that SRL is fostered, developed, and maintained within social contexts and as a result of interactions with teachers and peers. This research employs both social cognitive and sociocultural theories to …
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The impact of advertising and culture on the transformation of body image in Nigeria
… contributes to knowledge of how culture and sociocultural factors may have an influence on overweight body size as ideal body image for Nigerians. The body has become a central part of the modern person’s self-identity; therefore, a body that appears healthy and good looking provides cultural …
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An Investigation into Digital Technology Assisted Science Learning of Secondary School Age Learners Outside of Formal Teaching Contexts.
… learning of science in out-of-class contexts. A sociocultural framework was followed, and the key findings are summarised as follows: 1) The present research, whilst being generally consistent with previous studies regarding the identification of motivational factors, found that intrinsic …
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English language learner autonomy in the Vietnamese higher education context: enabling factors and barriers arising from assessment practice
… Building on a social constructivist paradigm and sociocultural theories of learning, this qualitative case study aims to investigate the demonstration of learner autonomy in the context of assessment in English as a foreign language (EFL) classes in a university in Vietnam, and the (potential) …
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Enhancing teachers' use of web-based resources: A case study of secondary technology teachers
… research methods, and was underpinned by a sociocultural theoretical perspective. The design of the intervention was informed by literature on characteristics of effective teacher professional development in general, ICT professional development in particular, sociocultural theories of …
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