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Carmen Silvestri – Language and Education, 2025
Whilst mainstream schools in England may encourage multilingualism by insisting on the study of foreign languages, multilingual children are not always provided with support for the maintenance of their heritage languages and cultures. In response to this shortcoming, communities organise themselves to support their young members by setting up…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Community Schools, Native Language, Multilingualism
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Boquan Liu; Jinwei Lan – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2025
Purpose: Children with hearing loss (HL) experience challenges in sound-related knowledge and techniques for manipulating sounds, which can affect their reading fluency. This study aims to use the unique phonetic, semantic, and visual integration of Chinese characters to access phonological information through visual representation, thereby…
Descriptors: Chinese, Hard of Hearing, Reading Fluency, Phonetics
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Ka-Yan Fung; Kwong-Chiu Fung; Tze Leung Rick Lui; Kuen-Fung Sin; Lik-Hang Lee; Huamin Qu; Shenghui Song – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2025
Mastering the visually complex characters of the Chinese language poses significant challenges for students. The situation is even worse in Hong Kong, where students with different backgrounds, including students with/without dyslexia and non-Chinese speaking (NCS) students, are placed in the same class. Interactive design has been proven…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Motivation, Native Language Instruction, Mandarin Chinese
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Sara Young – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2025
The disruption to the national GCSE (General Certificate of Secondary Education) examinations in England during the summer (June-August) exam period of 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic has been well documented; however, less attention has been paid to the challenges faced by complementary schools in preparing students for GCSEs in heritage…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Polish, Native Language, Ethnic Groups
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Nilgün Çelik – Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research, 2025
This study aims to examine the evolution and transformation of instructional methods in Turkish Language Curricula between 1926 and 2024. Utilizing a qualitative research design within the framework of the document analysis method, the study analyzes primary and secondary level Turkish language curricula published in the years 1926, 1929, 1930,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Native Language Instruction, Turkish, Teaching Methods
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Ava Becker – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
International travel is still commonly touted as one of the most effective tools for language learning, yet it remains an elusive activity for those without a certain amount of economic or legal privilege. Although physical return to the home country is not always possible for refugees and their families--even one or more generation after…
Descriptors: Refugees, Cultural Awareness, Story Telling, Personal Narratives
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Young-Suk Grace Kim; Jonathan Stern; Nompumelelo Mohohlwane; Stephen Taylor – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2025
Longitudinal data from the Early Grade Reading Study (EGRS I) in South Africa (N = 4538) were used to examine the role of instructional contexts in the relations of literacy skills between children's home language (L1 Setswana) and a second language (L2 English). All children received literacy instruction in Setswana in Grades 1 to 3. However,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, African Languages, Elementary School Students, Native Language Instruction
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Adebimpe Adegbite – Modern Language Journal, 2025
In the Yoruba community, proverbs are regarded as Yoruba philosophy repository, with wisdom, brevity, criticality, and stored experience that are believed to be a viable tool of acquiring the language. Hinging on reversing language shift model theory, the study investigated: (a) whether Yoruba proverbs are effective in the acquisition of Yoruba…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, African Languages, Proverbs, Folk Culture
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Katharina Luisa Boehme; Thomas Goetz; Markus Feuchter; Franzis Preckel – Educational Psychology Review, 2025
After decades of being conceptualised solely as a lack of interest, boredom has recently gained attention as an important construct in its own right. However, there is still a lack of studies focusing on the relations and developmental interplay of these two closely related constructs. This study examines the overall long-term developmental…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Mathematics, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Teachers
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Adler Yang Zhou – Language Teaching Research, 2025
When teaching Mandarin Chinese classifiers, teachers usually ask students to memorize 'classifier + noun', phrases as collocations. Given that Mandarin Chinese has a vast and complicated system of classifiers, the rote memorization of 'classifier + noun' collocations is challenging and monotonous. Therefore, the present study aims to improve that…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Heritage Education, Native Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Yvonne Pedria Velasco – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2025
Drawing on Sutton and Levinson's Socio-cultural Approach to policy, this study explores the experiences and collective language beliefs of 25 teachers implementing the Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education (MTBMLE) policy in two urban Philippine school districts. Mixed methods were used to understand policy enactment and teacher perspectives.…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Native Language Instruction, Native Language, Second Language Learning
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Admire Mhindu – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2025
Mother Tongue Education (MTE), despite being the most reliable method of learning, is a challenge for the African countries that fail to implement MTE policies due to lack of resources, stakeholders' attitudes towards mother tongues, and lack of political will. Keeping in view the plight of the primary implementers of such policies, hence, this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, African Languages, Native Language Instruction, Language Minorities
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Uma Pradhan; Joyeeta Dey – Learning, Media and Technology, 2025
This paper examines how language-based artificial intelligence is envisaged to imagine new futures for indigenous languages. It draws on the visions, programmes, and plans of six language initiatives that are developing language technology for often-marginalised indigenous, tribal, and minority (ITM) languages, such as Gondi, Maithili, Rajasthani…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Software, Indigenous Populations, Language Minorities
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Jiayin Li-Gottwald – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2025
In the field of educational sociolinguistics there is a body of literature with a focus on children in complementary schooling. While timely, such work often does not often pay much attention to the parents who frequent the school setting, preferring to focus on the interactions between children. This paper addresses this absence by reporting on a…
Descriptors: Community Schools, Chinese, Heritage Education, Native Language Instruction
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Hanna Ragnarsdóttir – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
Iceland has seen rapidly changing demographics in recent years as a result of growing immigration to the country. This is reflected in the education system where children speak altogether around 100 languages. This qualitative research aims at exploring the language policies and practices of diverse immigrant families and their cooperation with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Usage, Principals, Preschool Teachers
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