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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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Aijuan Cun – Language and Education, 2025
The manuscript describes Chinese immigrant children's literacy and identity in online and in-person Chinese heritage language classrooms. The theoretical perspectives on multimodality and positioning theory are utilized as theoretical perspectives. The data were collected with the same heritage language teacher and the students during the COVID-19…
Descriptors: Chinese, Native Language, Immigrants, Children
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So Jung Kim – Social Studies, 2025
Despite the increasing emphasis on social studies in Early Childhood Education, there has been a serious paucity of empirical studies on how culturally and linguistically diverse children develop their emergent understanding on their identities and citizenships in different racial and cultural surroundings. The main purpose of this article is to…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Citizenship, Ethnicity, Self Concept