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Language and Education @languageeducation.bsky.social · 3d

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Does shared reading with AI chatbot promote language development in kindergarteners with ADHD: Language and Education: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Does shared reading with AI chatbot promote language development in kindergarteners with ADHD

This study examined the efficacy of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot-led shared book reading (SBR) on language development in Chinese kindergarteners with attention deficit hyperactivity disord...

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Language and Education @languageeducation.bsky.social · 7d

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What can ‘professional vision’ tell us about teachers’ language alternation? A multimodal study of Chinese L2 classrooms: Language and Education: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

What can ‘professional vision’ tell us about teachers’ language alternation? A multimodal study of Chinese L2 classrooms

Second-language (L2) teachers routinely switch between the target language and a shared lingua franca to secure students’ understanding and participation, yet differences between novice and expert ...

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Language and Education @languageeducation.bsky.social · 7d

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Rethinking Language Education in the Age of Generative AI: Language and Education: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Rethinking Language Education in the Age of Generative AI

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Language and Education @languageeducation.bsky.social · 7d

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Challenges and opportunities in teaching speaking skills in senior high schools: perspectives of Ghanaian English teachers: Language and Education: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Challenges and opportunities in teaching speaking skills in senior high schools: perspectives of Ghanaian English teachers

This study focused on the strategies used by English teachers in Ghanaian Senior High Schools to teach speaking skills, while acknowledging the challenges they encountered in implementing these str...

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Language and Education @languageeducation.bsky.social · 7d

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Effects of students’ perceived linguistic competence on 7th-grade science learning outcomes: Engagement profiles as mediators: Language and Education: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Effects of students’ perceived linguistic competence on 7th-grade science learning outcomes: Engagement profiles as mediators

Students’ self-perceived competence in linguistic features has been linked to increased engagement in science learning, yet the underlying pathways remain complex and insufficiently explored. This ...

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Language and Education @languageeducation.bsky.social · 23d

From deficit to wealth: amplifying voices and cultural capital of Latiné families to support multilingual learner education: Language and Education: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

From deficit to wealth: amplifying voices and cultural capital of Latiné families to support multilingual learner education

Seeking to amplify families’ voices, this study reports on focus groups with Latiné parents of multilingual students (MLs). We draw from two theories: the dual capacity-building framework, which co...

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Language and Education @languageeducation.bsky.social · 23d

Intersecting digital literacies and multilingual identity in online gaming space: a semiotic assemblage perspective: Language and Education: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Intersecting digital literacies and multilingual identity in online gaming space: a semiotic assemblage perspective

This case study adds to research on multilinguals’ digital literacies and identities construction by exploring a) what semiotic repertoires were assembled as Toutou, the case study subject, engaged...

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Language and Education @languageeducation.bsky.social · Aug 29

Full article: Understanding the role of teachers’ uptake in higher education assessment practice: using Bakhtin to develop a critical focus on evaluative literacies www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Understanding the role of teachers’ uptake in higher education assessment practice: using Bakhtin to develop a critical focus on evaluative literacies

Despite widespread recognition of the importance of students’ uptake of feedback, teacher-evaluators’ uptake of students’ texts – how they read, interpret and respond to them – has received little ...

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Language and Education @languageeducation.bsky.social · Aug 29

Full article: “And then what?”: creating suspense in storytelling in accommodated language education for adults via a crip linguistics approach www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“And then what?”: creating suspense in storytelling in accommodated language education for adults via a crip linguistics approach

Drawing from linguistic ethnographic data in what is referred to as accommodated language education for adults, including migrant learners with PTSD, migration stress, deafness, hearing impairment ...

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Language and Education @languageeducation.bsky.social · Aug 15

Full article: Group-based assessments and L2 interactional competence: test-takers’ practices for re-aligning to the assessment task www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Group-based assessments and L2 interactional competence: test-takers’ practices for re-aligning to the assessment task

Although interaction-based research has investigated various second language (L2) testing formats, less attention has been given to group-based assessments compared to the more widely studied oral ...

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Language and Education @languageeducation.bsky.social · Aug 15

Full article: Language, time, and diversity: Ghanaian and Syrian newcomers’ perceptions of inequalities and opportunities in Germany’s tracked secondary-school system www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Language, time, and diversity: Ghanaian and Syrian newcomers’ perceptions of inequalities and opportunities in Germany’s tracked secondary-school system

In Germany, newcomer students are usually directed toward lower-track schools due to perceived language deficiencies, commonly attending preparatory classes primarily offered in such schools. This ...

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Language and Education @languageeducation.bsky.social · Aug 11

Social justice through pedagogies of multiliteracies: developing and strengthening L2 learner agency and identity: Language and Education: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Social justice through pedagogies of multiliteracies: developing and strengthening L2 learner agency and identity

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Language and Education @languageeducation.bsky.social · Aug 8

Making the ‘mathematics register’ accessible to students: an exploratory study of two teachers’ discourse in an online lesson on polynomial expressions: Language and Education: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Making the ‘mathematics register’ accessible to students: an exploratory study of two teachers’ discourse in an online lesson on polynomial expressions

The mathematics register, or the disciplinary discourse of mathematics, is demanding for many students because it is simultaneously technical, dense, multisemiotic, and multimodal. Teachers play a ...

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Language and Education @languageeducation.bsky.social · Aug 4

Full article: Fostering community support for multilingual education: the language friendly approach www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Fostering community support for multilingual education: the language friendly approach

For the past fifteen years, research on inclusive pedagogy has strongly advocated for schools to embrace the increasing linguistic diversity within their communities by adopting a multilingual, or ...

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Language and Education @languageeducation.bsky.social · Jul 14

Full article: Knowledge, interaction and language beyond the EMI classroom: Business students preparing for work www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Language and Education @languageeducation.bsky.social · Jul 8

Examining primary school students’ perceptions of language used in science classrooms: Language and Education: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Examining primary school students’ perceptions of language used in science classrooms

The recognition of the integral role of language in engaging with science has given rise to much research on the language demands of learning science. While there have been many studies on student ...

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Language and Education @languageeducation.bsky.social · Jul 8

Moroccan secondary school teachers’ perspectives on translanguaging implementation, perceived benefits, and challenges encountered: a qualitative analysis: Language and Education: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Moroccan secondary school teachers’ perspectives on translanguaging implementation, perceived benefits, and challenges encountered: a qualitative analysis

The recent shift to the exclusive use of French as a Medium of Instruction (MOI) for science subjects in secondary education in Morocco has raised concerns about the challenges faced by students wh...

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Language and Education @languageeducation.bsky.social · Jul 8

Full article: Narrowing history curriculum implementation gaps in Southern African countries: undoing the English hegemony www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Narrowing history curriculum implementation gaps in Southern African countries: undoing the English hegemony

Despite the availability of well-crafted school history curricula in Southern African countries, policy-practice dissonance remains evident, suggesting some factors continue to widen implementation...

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Language and Education @languageeducation.bsky.social · Jun 30

Full article: Explain and engage: linguistic resources in Swedish as a second language textbooks to support academic writing www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Explain and engage: linguistic resources in Swedish as a second language textbooks to support academic writing

Upper secondary school textbooks are widely used as educational material. Textbooks can, however, differ greatly, for example in the choice of linguistic resources. Comparing textbooks can therefor...

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Language and Education @languageeducation.bsky.social · Jun 30

Home language use in mathematics classrooms supports processing, not just input–output work: Language and Education: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Home language use in mathematics classrooms supports processing, not just input–output work

While classrooms in the United States serve an increasingly multilingual student population, the de facto medium-of-instruction policy in most schools is English immersion. Additionally, although e...

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Language and Education @languageeducation.bsky.social · Jun 26

‘My English is terrible to read’: understanding stakeholders’ experiences and needs of English medium instruction through peer tutoring: Language and Education: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

‘My English is terrible to read’: understanding stakeholders’ experiences and needs of English medium instruction through peer tutoring

With the increasing prominence of English as a global lingua franca, English medium instruction (EMI) has been adopted in various higher education contexts. However, its implementation in non-Anglo...

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Language and Education @languageeducation.bsky.social · Jun 26

Full article: An exploration of languaging interactions of young Spanish-English emergent bilinguals to build social-emotional learning skills during free-play www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

An exploration of languaging interactions of young Spanish-English emergent bilinguals to build social-emotional learning skills during free-play

Children’s language skills and social-emotional learning (SEL) are intricately intertwined. Early childhood education (ECE) programs are a critical context for children’s language and SEL skills. Y...

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Language and Education @languageeducation.bsky.social · Jun 18

Full article: Using linguistic ethnography to uncover the mechanisms through which underprivileged students are denied access to classroom dialogue www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Using linguistic ethnography to uncover the mechanisms through which underprivileged students are denied access to classroom dialogue

This article opens up the ‘black box’ of classroom interaction to investigate why opportunities to participate in academically productive (or ‘dialogic’) classroom discussion may be more readily av...

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Language and Education @languageeducation.bsky.social · Jun 5

Full article: What bedtime story means for heritage language development changes and continuities in shared reading during children’s primary school transition www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

What bedtime story means for heritage language development changes and continuities in shared reading during children’s primary school transition

Informed by frameworks of Family Language Policy (FLP) and Home Literacy Environment (HLE), this paper explores shared reading as a FLP, evolving over time under the influence of both internal fami...

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Language and Education @languageeducation.bsky.social · Jun 4

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