Emerging learning ecologies: Mayan children's initiative and correctional directives in their everyday enskilment practices
Publication date: Available online 8 September 2017 Source:Linguistics and Education Author(s): Lourdes de León Directives are a central resource for the organization of attention in everyday family activities. Studies in middle class families reveal that they are patterned and repeated in the everyday routines of children's lives, providing the basis for their learning of skills, accountability, and moral discernment (M. Goodwin, 2006; M. Goodwin & Cekaite, 2013, 2014). Scholars studying indigenous children's learning from a cross-cultural perspective have underscored children's agency and self-motivation in l...
Source: Linguistics and Education - September 8, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Reflective writing, reflecting on identities: The construction of writer identity in student teachers ’ reflections
Publication date: Available online 1 September 2017 Source:Linguistics and Education Author(s): Evgenia Vassilaki The study focuses on student teachers’ reflective writing as an academic literacies practice. Data are drawn from a combined ethnographic approach to student teachers’ reflective writing on their practicum experience in a Primary Education Department of a Greek University. Ivanič’ (1998) framework on the construction of writer identity is employed in order to explore the resources and the discourses which student teachers deploy to position themselves with or against academic and professional discours...
Source: Linguistics and Education - September 2, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Evaluation and instruction in PhD examiners ’ reports: How grammatical choices construe examiner roles
This article examines the discourses of evaluation and instruction in 142 PhD examiners’ reports on theses submitted at an Australasian university. The paper draws on systemic functional linguistics, in particular transitivity (Halliday & Matthiessen, 2014), in order to examine the reports. The study revealed that examiners can adopt up to 10 “roles” in their reports, each of which can be co-present in a single report. The inability to differentiate between these roles, we argue, is potentially frustrating for the audience of the reports (candidates, supervisors, departmental heads, etc.), particularly when i...
Source: Linguistics and Education - September 2, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Recently I was in a fatal incident: Personal narratives and social identities
Publication date: Available online 31 August 2017 Source:Linguistics and Education Author(s): Teresa Sosa This work focuses on Wes, a Black student in a 9th grade English Language Arts (ELA) class taught by Ms. Henry. Wes was socially identified as a violent, problematically challenging, and “naturally” academically unambitious student by Ms. Henry based on the perceptions of Wes drawn up from broader social discourses of race/gender identities and also from authorized institutional (school) “acceptable” and narrowly defined ways to perform classroom roles. Using discourse analysis to examine Wes's contributions...
Source: Linguistics and Education - September 1, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Teacher language ideologies mediating classroom-level language policy in the implementation of dual language bilingual education
Publication date: Available online 31 August 2017 Source:Linguistics and Education Author(s): Kathryn I. Henderson Drawing on multiple measures of language ideology, this paper examines the language ideologies of two third grade teachers tasked with implementing a dual language bilingual education (DLBE) program to explore the relationship between teachers’ language ideologies and local language policy. After situating the classrooms within their respective broader language ideological contexts, the language ideologies of each teacher are presented followed by a discussion of its relationship to classroom-level langua...
Source: Linguistics and Education - September 1, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
