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Judith Ansó Ros; Minna Maijala; Nelli Valkamo – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Globalisation has resulted in European families that have a variety of home languages, leading to the need for heritage language learning (HLL). The purpose of HLL is to ensure that in addition to learning the language of their schools, children with migrant backgrounds also maintain their heritage language (HL). Besides the 'regular' teaching, in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Native Language, Teacher Role, Language Maintenance
Seyed Hadi Mirvahedi – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This research applies interactional sociolinguistics within a family language policy framework to investigate how social structures and institutional discourses outside the home trickle into daily mundane activities within a Malay-English bilingual family in Singapore. Drawing upon ethnographic interviews and naturally-occurring interactions at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism
Claudia Gherghel; Shoko Yasuda; Yosuke Kita – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
We investigated the effects of social interaction and out-of-class study time on foreign language proficiency and use among two hundred students from a Japanese university who studied abroad for one month. Participants' use of English and English proficiency were measured before and after the programme. Interaction with people from other cultures…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Study Abroad, English Language Learners
Yating Huang; Fan Fang – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The complexity of language contact and intercultural communication has generated various issues in relation to language use and education. As one of the many Chinese dialects ("fangyans"), the Chaoshan dialect ("Teochew") has been affected by the extensive promotion of Putonghua, the key lingua franca across China, and English,…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Mandarin Chinese, Dialects, Language Usage
Lisa MacDonald – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This study considered the songs currently in use in Gaelic groups for 0-3 year olds in Scotland, whilst investigating how practitioners use them in the groups. In this article, I argue that Gaelic Early Years practitioners insufficiently understand the potential of song in relation to Gaelic language acquisition with young children and their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition, Indo European Languages, Singing
Lara-Stephanie Krause-Alzaidi – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The practices of sorting things out and bringing things together, which I summarise under the term relanguaging, sit between fluid, situated languaging practices and the administrative standard grid in education that relies on bounded, named languages. Relanguaging, I argue, was invisible to socio- and applied linguists' analytical vision because…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Youngjoo Seo – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2025
Despite the unique status of English as a super-power among foreign languages in Korea, and researchers' increasing interest in Korean parents' zeal for achieving their children's early bilingualism and willingness to invest heavily in private English education outside of school, insufficient attention has been paid to the role of parental…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Parent Child Relationship, Bilingualism
Chih-Hao Chang; Kwun Man Chiang – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This study investigates the language learning experiences of a migrant child in an underprivileged migrant-marriage family in Japan through narrative inquiry. Data were collected over the course of a year through a migrant child survey, reflective journals and interviews with the migrant child and his mother, homeroom teacher and tutor to…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Migrants, Personal Narratives, Longitudinal Studies