Scaffolding or side-tracking? The role of knowledge about language in content instruction
This study uses the theoretical frameworks of Systemic-Functional Linguistics and Legitimation Code Theory to explore the role of language, more specifically technical terms, grammatical metaphors, and genre structures, in knowledge building. The study is based on observations and voice recordings during a curriculum area about maps and population in grade 6 with the participating teacher employing genre-based pedagogy. The studied interaction shows that an initial focus on technical terms within the field of geography in later phases shifts to features of language: genre structures, logical connections and instances of gr...
Source: Linguistics and Education - November 13, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

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Publication date: October 2019Source: Linguistics and Education, Volume 53Author(s): (Source: Linguistics and Education)
Source: Linguistics and Education - November 12, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

Possibilities of building peace through classroom discourse: A positive discourse analysis
Publication date: December 2019Source: Linguistics and Education, Volume 54Author(s): Luzkarime Calle-DíazAbstractColombia is a country with a history of violence. The educational context has been no exception. Examining the way peace and violence are enacted or reproduced through discourse in school settings can help to inform processes of positive social transformation. In this paper, I present a critical microethnographic study on the potential of classroom discourse for peacebuilding in a fifth grade classroom of a public school on the north coast of Colombia. By focusing on an episode of classroom life, which samples...
Source: Linguistics and Education - November 11, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

Triadic conflict mediation as socialization into perspective taking in Swedish preschools
Publication date: Available online 31 October 2019Source: Linguistics and EducationAuthor(s): Asta CekaiteAbstractThis paper is a video-ethnographic language socialization study that examines the discursive, linguistic and embodied features of the teachers’ and children's ways of conflict mediation and resolution. The study describes the ways in which young children (three to five-year olds) in several preschools in Sweden are being socialized into the interactional competences and perspective taking necessary for managing conflict situations. It is shown that teacher-guided conflict resolution was accomplished through t...
Source: Linguistics and Education - October 31, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

Negotiating voices through embodied semiosis: The co-construction of a science text
This article presents a rich description of an everyday, paired learner interaction in class. In contributing to debates on collaborative classroom interaction, this article presents a micro-analysis of the work of embodied modes employed in face-to-face interaction. Through ethnographically-contextualised Multimodal Discourse Analysis (EC-MDA), a partial understanding of the ways in which two learners interact through embodied semiosis is reached. The originality of this article lies with the insights gained from multimodal discourse analysis which show how (in textual terms), even in a less creative space, learners negot...
Source: Linguistics and Education - October 23, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

Sacred language acquisition in superdiverse contexts
This article presents and discusses data which reveal the multilingual contexts of contemporary UK mosque schools offering Muslim children liturgical (Qur’anic) literacy acquisition. It contrasts significantly with data collected twenty years earlier from broadly similar contexts. That data, gathered in the years 1998–2001, suggested relatively stable but complex patterns of language use including codeswitching, reading as decoding, memorisation and localised di/triglossia involving both prestigious and vernacular community languages, a sacred language (Classical Arabic) and a majority language, English. Nearly two dec...
Source: Linguistics and Education - October 18, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

Relocalization in digital language practices of university students in Asian peripheries: Critical awareness in a language classroom
Publication date: Available online 14 October 2019Source: Linguistics and EducationAuthor(s): Shaila Sultana, Sender DovchinAbstractThis paper seeks to reveal the out of classroom digital linguistic practices of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) university students in the peripheral Asian countries such as Bangladesh and Mongolia - contexts that have rarely been addressed in previous research. It is based on two digital ethnographic research studies conducted in both countries for an extended period of time. Drawing on sets of Facebook data, this paper shows the processes of ‘relocalization’ - a form of language repe...
Source: Linguistics and Education - October 15, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

‘Being in the Bin’: Affective understandings of prescriptivism and spelling in video narratives co-produced with children in a post-industrial area of the UK
Publication date: October 2019Source: Linguistics and Education, Volume 53Author(s): Hugh Francis Escott, Kate Heron Pahl (Source: Linguistics and Education)
Source: Linguistics and Education - October 12, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

The text is reading you: teaching language in the age of the algorithm
Publication date: Available online 11 October 2019Source: Linguistics and EducationAuthor(s): Rodney H. JonesAbstractMost accounts of the way digital technologies have changed practices of reading and writing have focused on surface aspects of digital texts (such as hypertextuality, multimodality and the development of new registers). There are, however, less visible aspects of digital communication environments that have had an equally profound effect on reading and writing – namely the algorithms that lie behind texts that monitor the actions of readers and writers and alter the form and content of the texts they are e...
Source: Linguistics and Education - October 12, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

“We are looking forward to another great year!”: How principals’ language-in-use reflect school quality ratings in Chicago Public Schools
Publication date: October 2019Source: Linguistics and Education, Volume 53Author(s): Kelli A. RushekAbstractChicago Public Schools (CPS) has been a laboratory for privatization and school choice through a neoliberal market model put in place in the 1990s. Every year, the District rates schools based on the School Quality Rating Policy (SQRP), and those results are made public through the CPS data portal and other media outlets. Using the method and theory of critical discourse analysis (Gee, 2011, 2014), I analyzed the principals’ discourse of the CPS-run high schools rated 1+ in the 2017–2018 school year. Specifically...
Source: Linguistics and Education - October 9, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

A multilevel description of textbook linguistic complexity across disciplines: Leveraging NLP to support disciplinary literacy
In this study, linguistic complexity is measured at the clause, phrase and lexical levels, across eight disciplines represented by a corpus of secondary school textbooks. Innovative natural language processing systems extract an unprecedented number of complexity measures, and discriminant function analysis describes features that best differentiate disciplinary writing. Results indicate disciplines vary along different clines of complexity. The first tends to discriminate humanities from science subjects, along features such as academic phraseology, possessive noun phrases, auxiliary verbs and clause dependents. Other cli...
Source: Linguistics and Education - October 9, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

Text, talk, and stance: Nigerian and Ukrainian student presentations in English-medium classes at a Ukrainian university
Publication date: October 2019Source: Linguistics and Education, Volume 53Author(s): Bridget A. GoodmanAbstractThe purpose of this paper is to illustrate the impact of internationalization and English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) on classroom practice by analyzing metacommentary on a typical classroom activity, the presentation. A nine-month ethnographic case study was conducted with students from Nigeria and Ukraine, and their Ukrainian teachers, in EMI classes in a predominantly Russian-speaking university in Ukraine. Empirical observations of presentations, recorded classroom discourse, and interview data were inter...
Source: Linguistics and Education - October 9, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

Peer conflict and language socialization in preschool: Introduction to special issue
Publication date: Available online 7 October 2019Source: Linguistics and EducationAuthor(s): Ekaterina Moore, Matthew Burdelski (Source: Linguistics and Education)
Source: Linguistics and Education - October 9, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

“Theresa! Don’t pull her hair! You’ll hurt her!”: Peer intervention and embodiment in U.S. preschools
Publication date: Available online 5 September 2019Source: Linguistics and EducationAuthor(s): Barbara LeMasterAbstractUsing videotaped interaction of U.S. preschool classrooms, this study investigates how children learn to manage peer conflict. Whether conflict occurs vocally or non-vocally affects socialization of children's behaviors. Negotiation of arguments by teachers somewhat depend on whether children sustain conflict in a vocal or embodied modality. Teachers use directive/response sequences to engage with children's vocalized disputes. Moving conflict to a non-vocal channel by embodying a dispute thus enables chil...
Source: Linguistics and Education - September 5, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research

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Publication date: August 2019Source: Linguistics and Education, Volume 52Author(s): (Source: Linguistics and Education)
Source: Linguistics and Education - August 30, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research