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English Language Education in Rural Contexts: Examining Students’ Perceptions and Motivation Through a Contextually Grounded Extracurricular Program

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We conducted this case study in Türkiye to examine how a contextually grounded extracurricular program shaped rural students’ perceptions of English and their motivation to learn and use the language. Recognizing motivation as an equity‐related concern in rural contexts, where students may have limited opportunities to perceive the local ...
Emrullah Yasin Çiftçi, Turgay Han, Melih Demirkesen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding Online Meaning‐Making: Normativity, Polycentricity, and Memetic Communication Through a Chronotopic‐Scalar Lens

Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article investigates memetic interaction as an illustrative example of complex polycentric online communication. Using a chronotopic‐scalar framework, it offers a theorized account of how online (inter)action works, how it is guided by (perceptions of) normativities, and how it is in dialogue with the “offline.” Specifically, I focus on ...
Taraneh Sanei
wiley   +1 more source

Distributed Readability Analysis Of Turkish Elementary School Textbooks

CoRR, 2018
Proceedings of International Conference on Information Technology and Computer Science July 11-12, 2015, ISBN ...
Betul Karakus, Ibrahim Riza Hallac, Galip Aydin   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Reproducing National Distinction: How Cultural Capital Shapes Estonia's Russian School Field

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research on nationalism has long emphasized the homogenizing role of education in producing shared language, history and identity, while studies in the sociology of education have examined how cultural capital and social class structure school hierarchies.
Léo Henry
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating a task-based lesson plan: A case study of Turkish EFL learners

Literacy Trek
The world has seen a rise in the demand for foreign language instruction in recent years, and traditional textbook-based teaching strategies are unlikely to satisfy the demands of today’s students.
Vildan İnci Kavak
doaj   +1 more source

Making Boundaries: Polish Memory, Identity and the Ukrainian Other

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Political elites use historical references abundantly when drawing national boundaries. Despite the prominence of such language, we know little about the ways in which ordinary citizens internalise historical narratives of the Other to construct their national identity.
Félix Krawatzek
wiley   +1 more source

Who Benefits From the Assignment of Homework?

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine the relationship between the assignment of homework and student achievement among 8th grade students across 23 countries using the TIMSS 2019 dataset. Exploiting within‐student, between‐subject variation in homework assignment, we find a small but statistically significant positive relationship between homework and achievement. This
Darragh Flannery, Dónal Palcic, Jose G. Clavel   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Noisy Politics, Quiet Technocrats: Strategic Silence by Central Banks

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In contrast to the “quiet” politics of the pre‐2008 period, macroeconomic policy has become “noisy”. This break raises a question: How do independent agencies designed for quiet politics react when a contentious public turns the volume up on them?
Benjamin Braun, Maximilian Düsterhöft
wiley   +1 more source

Cartographic Skills in Geography Textbooks: A Comparative Analysis of Instructional Materials for Mainstream and Minority Primary Schools in Greece

European Journal of Geography
The educational rights of the Muslim minority of Thrace, the only officially recognised minority in Greece, are safeguarded by Article 41 of the Treaty of Lausanne (1923). Within this framework, minority education has developed into a distinct subsystem
Sinan Giakoup
doaj   +1 more source

Notation in Early Modern Language Teaching

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the use of musical notation as a pedagogical tool in early modern language teaching, focusing on Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and briefly, Turkish. While musical notation is typically associated with performance and composition, the sources discussed here demonstrate its broader application as a visual and conceptual system for ...
Elisabeth Giselbrecht
wiley   +1 more source