Mathematics teaching in a foreign language may lead to discrimination for some learners specifically during trouble-spots that require the construction of shared-nderstanding. This research compares teacher-learner interaction two classrooms Lebanon where mathematics is taught language. Eighteen lessons were recorded and transcribed, utterances teacher coded at levels of: school; session; inter...

background: self-talk can be described as what people say to themselves either obviously or non-obviously. self-talk has been known as someone talks inside or quietly. as a matter of fact, self-talk is self-communication which can occur in several situations. objective: together the athlete’s perceptions of the self-talk intervention and its relationship to their performance to obtain informati...

To explain my thoughts on this, I will report the highlights of the research I have been carrying out into (1) how children learn to talk and (2) why, therefore, the phonetics/phonology of English in mature speakers is the way that it is. I will then relate this to L2 learners, in order to ask what we can realistically expect students to do on their own, with and without help from technology, a...

Multiword expressions as they appear as nominal compounds, collocational forms, and idioms are now leveraged in educational technology in assessment and instruction contexts. The talk will focus on how multiword expression identification is used in different kinds of educational applications, including automated essay evaluation, and teacher professional development in curriculum development fo...

Every summer for the last ten years I have taught the first course in our teacher education program, entitled “Learning, Teaching, and Schooling in a Diverse Society.” In the very first few days I ask the students to write a “Learning Autobiography.” My aim is to provide an occasion for these prospective teachers to reflect on their own trajectories as learners: to think about when and how they...

How does the literacy teacher negotiate the tensions between skills and social practice? Negotiation requires engaging with the debate in which literacy is seen as a set of discrete, transferable skills, dependent upon cognitive development, to the notion of literacies which are bound to social practice, and adapting teaching practices which align these two perspectives. Literacy teacher traini...