Whether we grow up with one, two, or several languages during our early years of life, many
of us will learn a second, foreign, or heritage language in later years. The field of Second …

This second edition of Classroom Discourse Analysis continues to make techniques widely
used in the field of discourse analysis accessible to a broad audience and illustrates their …

This study examined the ways that 5th graders and their teachers constructed third spaces in
bilingual and bicultural communities of practice in a dual-language school. Students and …

In this article, I deconstruct the macro–micro dichotomy by arguing that the very same mass‐
media messages that appear culturally homogenizing (like catchy tunes and phrases) also …

Research has shown content-based instruction (CBI) to be effective in various language
settings, yet this promising curricular approach remains rarely implemented in mainstream …

Socio-political and demographic developments in Western Europe make diversity and
multiculturalism a relevant line of research and emerging topic in education sciences. This …

In a recent review Snow and Juel (2005) drew attention to the long history of confl ict about
the most eff ective way to teach English-speaking children how to read, a confl ict that has …

This article investigates the practice of heterogeneous grouping for reading and literacy
instruction through a detailed interactional analysis focused on the least proficient readers in …

This article investigates the need for both a theoretical and a practical way to understand the
construction of linguistic and social competence as perceived by emergent bilingual and …

This article problematises a broad consensus in favour of importing popular culture into
classrooms as a means of engaging pupils, transforming interactional norms and facilitating …