Ethical and Methodological Issues in Researching Young Language Learners in School Contexts

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Language Learners ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
Complex Form ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
School Contexts ◽  
The World

This book focuses on ethical and methodological issues encountered by researchers working with young language learners in school contexts. The chapters are written by researchers working with children in different classroom contexts around the world and highlight how ethical dilemmas and tensions take on a complex form in child-focused research.

Compassion, Suffering, Morality: Ethical Dilemmas in Caring

1981 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Anne J. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
Significant Others ◽  
Healthy People ◽  
Personal Contact ◽  
Loss Of Control ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
The World

Few healthy people welcome death, but most would welcome a quick, easy death to avoid suffering and the loss of control over their lives. We need to ask: what sort of human environment do we hope for at the end of our lives? What will the world and our own living in it look like when we know we are about to die? What kind of human relationships will sustain us through this most personal of life's experiences when we may become more dependent on others? Do we fear we will either be abandoned through lack of meaningful personal contact with significant others, or be actors in a tragi-comedy of pretense in which authentic forms of human expression are unattainable?

scholarly journals Identity, language learning, and social change

2011 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 412-446 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bonny Norton ◽  
Kelleen Toohey
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Imagined Communities ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Language Identity ◽  
The World

In this review article on identity, language learning, and social change, we argue that contemporary poststructuralist theories of language, identity, and power offer new perspectives on language learning and teaching, and have been of considerable interest in our field. We first review poststructuralist theories of language, subjectivity, and positioning and explain sociocultural theories of language learning. We then discuss constructs ofinvestmentandimagined communities/imagined identities(Norton Peirce 1995; Norton 1997, 2000, 2001), showing how these have been used by diverse identity researchers. Illustrative examples of studies that investigate how identity categories like race, gender, and sexuality interact with language learning are discussed. Common qualitative research methods used in studies of identity and language learning are presented, and we review the research on identity and language teaching in different regions of the world. We examine how digital technologies may be affecting language learners' identities, and how learner resistance impacts language learning. Recent critiques of research on identity and language learning are explored, and we consider directions for research in an era of increasing globalization. We anticipate that the identities and investments of language learners, as well as their teachers, will continue to generate exciting and innovative research in the future.

Universal Design for Learning

2021 ◽  
pp. 002205742110319
Author(s):  
Sandra Levey
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Visual Information ◽  
Universal Design ◽  
Second Language Learners ◽  
Universal Design For Learning ◽  
Design Learning ◽  
The World ◽  
Design For Learning

This review presents the Universal Design Learning (UDL) approach to education. Classrooms have become increasingly diverse, with second language learners, students with disabilities, and students with differences in their perception and understanding information. Some students learn best through listening, while others learn best when presented with visual information. Given the increased number of new language learners across the world, the UDL approach allows successful learning for all students. UDL has allowed students to acquire information more effectively. UDL provides guidance to educators that is especially valuable for the diversity of classrooms and the diversity in modalities in learning,

Googleology for second language learning

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 453-469
Author(s):  
Patrizia Giampieri
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Second Language Learning ◽  
Second Language Learners ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Linguistic Research ◽  
Advanced Search ◽  
The World ◽  
Google Search

Abstract The World Wide Web has often been considered too vast to be consulted for linguistic purposes or for language learning. This paper will explore whether second language learners can be taught how to navigate the web (i.e., how to perform Google linguistic research, or “Googleology”), in order to improve their language skills. To this aim, a 2 h trial lesson was organized. The trial lesson was delivered to 78 apprentices, divided into groups of 10–15, over a period of six months. During the lesson, the participants were taught how to work with Google Advanced Search syntax. At the end of the lesson, they applied the newly-acquired skills by completing a few tasks concerning term and/or collocational search. The paper findings will highlight that, despite initial hesitation or inaccuracies in completing the exercises, the tasks were performed well. The participants considered the lesson interesting, useful and enjoyable. They felt engaged irrespective of the level of their second language (L2) knowledge, and were more confident in approaching Google Search for linguistic purposes.

scholarly journals Methodological Issues in Macro Comparative Research: An Introduction

2009 ◽  
pp. 1-2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Kentor
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
World System ◽  
The Other ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
The World

This special issue of JWSR is the offspring of an ASA Political Economy of the World System session that I organized in 2007. My thanks to Andrew Jorgenson, co-editor of JWSR, who moderated the session and proposed that I put together a special issue on this topic. In turn, I asked Timothy Moran to join me as co-editor of this issue. Tim is one of the foremost quantitative macro-comparative sociologists in the country, and was the discussant on the PEWS panel. Tim provides a summary and discussion of the contributions in the conclusion. As it turns out, only two of the panel presentations are included in this issue. The other two were submitted in response to a general call for papers. All four manuscripts were peer reviewed.

scholarly journals Enhancing the Creativity of Language Learners Through Humanities Gaming

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (S1-i2-Dec) ◽  
pp. 55-57
Author(s):  
S R Parameshwaran
Keyword(s):  
Language Learners ◽  
Computer Games ◽  
Mixed Media ◽  
The World ◽  
Creative Abilities ◽  
Relational Abilities ◽  
Advanced Computer

The term globalization has made English as a worldwide language that go about as an extension to associate the world. The principle target of this paper is to improve the creative abilities of students through advanced computer games. Games call for new proficiencies that surpass customary perusing and composing abilities through their mechanics, method and mixed media connections. Computerized games request better approaches for seeing and working. Computer games can make more imaginativeness and establish virtual digitalized climate among the students. Incidentally the students can get numerous new vocabularies from computerized computer games. It encourages the students to convey and procure the required potential. Digitalized climate encourage the students to improve the relational abilities in easygoing settings. This climate can give a distinctive differentiation to the customary homeroom. In language securing measure, student gains language in a subliminal route during which they are uninformed of syntactic standards. Along these lines computer games will establish a digitalized climate, where the students can secure the language unwittingly and start to convey in English.

Sovereign Violence

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Choe
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
Film Theory ◽  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
Domestic Market ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Neoliberal Globalization ◽  
South Korean ◽  
World Today ◽  
The World

South Korea is home to one of the most vibrant film industries in the world today, producing movies for a strong domestic market that are also drawing the attention of audiences worldwide. This book presents a comprehensive analysis of some of the most well-known and incendiary South Korean films of the millennial decade from nine major directors. Building his analysis on contemporary film theory and philosophy, as well as interviews and other primary sources, Steve Choe makes a case that these often violent films pose urgent ethical dilemmas central to life in the age of neoliberal globalization.

Ethical Dilemmas in Data Mining and Warehousing

2008 ◽  
pp. 2841-2849
Author(s):  
Joseph A. Cazier ◽  
Ryan C. LaBrie
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
Identity Theft ◽  
World Today ◽  
Societal Value ◽  
The World ◽  
Marketing Data

As we have increasing privacy and risk concerns in the world today with identity theft, questionable marketing, data mining, and profiling, it is becoming increasingly important to explore how consumers feel and react to the use of their data. This study makes an important contribution to the literature by presenting common positive and negative myths surrounding these issues and exploring how ethical or unethical consumers believe these practices are by looking at the myths and their reaction to them. We focus on consumers’ perceptions because at the end of the day it is what the consumers perceive to be happing that will determine their reaction. An ethical data practice is one that is believed to increase consumer, business, or societal value, and an unethical data practice is one which causes harm to these groups.

Friendship and Bullying

2021 ◽  
pp. 43-80
Author(s):  
Cathy Benedict
Keyword(s):  
Critical Literacy ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
Lesson Plans ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
The World ◽  
The Human Condition

Through a series of scaffolded lesson plans that begin in the classroom and then move out into the world, this chapter addresses friendship and bullying through the lens of critical literacy. Friendship has long been the sacrosanct goal of elementary socialization. This chapter calls into question the simplicity of the concept and weighs that against bullying. The texts used in this chapter begin “simply” enough, with books such as Tubby the Tuba and Ben’s Trumpet, but then moves into texts that push students to consider poverty and war as a form of bullying. Books such as Petar’s Song, The Harmonica, and finally Revolución afford opportunities for both critical reflection and musicking, while a reimagined version of Peter and the Wolf asks students to ponder ethical dilemmas grounded in loyalty, death, societal pressures, the human condition, nature, friendship, and sacrifice.

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