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Stander, Marga – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2022
Students with a mother tongue other than English often struggle with the demands of an academic programme at tertiary institutions where the medium of instruction is English. If their English language proficiency is inadequate, it may hamper their academic progress. Students feel that their command of English is unsatisfactory, and this causes…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Learning Strategies, Affective Behavior, Language Proficiency
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Valencia Mazzanti, Cristina; Cardozo-Gaibisso, Lourdes – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2022
This article investigates how young multilingual children's mathematics learning is connected to their language use, lived experiences, contexts, and emotions. To this end, we consider the experiences of children who used both Spanish and English to learn mathematics. We center on two instances of kindergarten children counting and use Systemic…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Language Usage, Spanish, English
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Ahmed, Anwar; Morgan, Brian – Language Learning Journal, 2021
Postmemory, the narrativised intergenerational transfer of often traumatic experiences, is a crucial component of multilingual identity negotiation. In this article, we focus specifically on the curricular interactions and personal and collective aspirations of multilingual students who use English for academic purposes. We situate our discussions…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)