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The Effects of Training in Linguistics on Teaching: K-12 Teachers in White Mountain Apache Schools DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS Weekly Journals

المؤلف:  Florencia Riegelhaupt & Roberto Luis Carrasco

المصدر:  Applied Linguistics and Language Teacher Education

الجزء والصفحة:  P104-C7

2026-08-19

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The Effects of Training in Linguistics on Teaching: K-12 Teachers in White Mountain Apache Schools

DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS

Weekly Journals

Each program participant kept a weekly journal in which comments about the relationship between knowledge acquired in class seminars and teaching were emphasized. A typical journal entry included specific concerns about linguistic issues and how they were dealt with by the teacher. The journals allowed teachers to express themselves about the relationship between applied linguistic knowledge and instructional approaches.

Data were coded for information that specifically referred to the relationship between newly acquired applied linguistic knowledge and teaching. Whenever teachers made an observation in their journals that directly pertained to linguistic knowledge acquired and how such knowledge influenced their attitudes and subsequent pedagogical approaches.

The present analysis includes class members’ journal entries. In our analysis, we demonstrate the relationship between certain types of linguistic knowledge and language pedagogy. Linguistic knowledge includes a discussion of the relationship between oral and written language, the formation of regular English plurals and past tense, and sociolinguistic information on bilingualism, bidialectalism, register variation, codeswitching and languages in contact. Such information is contextually based on the linguistic reality of the reservation. Teachers’ linguistic knowledge and its effects on their pedagogy have both immediate and long-term consequences.