A Closer Look at Bilingual Students' Use of Multimodality in the Context of an Area Comparison Problem from a Large-Scale Assessment

Autor/inn/en	Fernandes, Anthony; Kahn, Leslie H.; Civil, Marta
Titel	A Closer Look at Bilingual Students' Use of Multimodality in the Context of an Area Comparison Problem from a Large-Scale Assessment
Quelle	In: Educational Studies in Mathematics, 95 (2017) 3, S.263-282 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-1954
DOI	10.1007/s10649-017-9748-5
Schlagwörter	Bilingual Students; Interviews; Vignettes; Nonverbal Communication; Mathematics Instruction; Problem Solving; Learning Modalities; National Competency Tests; Manipulative Materials; National Assessment of Educational Progress + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Mathematics lessons; Mathematikunterricht; Problemlösen; Lernumgebung; Hilfsmittel
Abstract	In this article, we use multimodality to examine how bilingual students interact with an area task from the National Assessment of Educational Progress in task-based interviews. Using vignettes, we demonstrate how some of these students manipulate the concrete materials, and use gestures, as a primary form of structuring their explanations and making mathematical meaning. We use our results as a basis to challenge the possible deficit perspective of bilingual students' mathematical knowledge in current assessment practices. Choosing tasks that afford multiple modes of engagement and recognizing multimodal explanations in assessment practices has the potential to move us towards a better understanding of what bilingual students know and can do mathematically. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01