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Flora Woltran – Policy Futures in Education, 2025
The Austrian education policy employs a segregated model of language support, ostensibly to provide equitable opportunities for language learners. Prior research has demonstrated that this model has not fully achieved its objective of equalizing opportunities, as students persistently confront many academic and socio-emotional challenges. To gain…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, German, Educational Policy, Educational Legislation
Joanna Rokita-Jaskow – Multilingual Matters, 2025
This book synthesises research on very early language learning in pre-primary organised instruction settings such as kindergarten, nursery or afternoon classes. Using a framework of ecological development, it investigates the nested systems in which very young learners operate, the other agents involved in each of these systems and the influence…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Kindergarten, Second Language Learning, Individual Characteristics
Sergio Lopera; Nelly Sierra – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2025
This qualitative ethnographic study investigates students' agency of a language policy in a Colombian public university. Participants were 85 undergraduate students, and data collection involved document analysis, non-participatory observation, a questionnaire, and a portfolio. Three categories emerged from the analysis: acceptance, rejection, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Higher Education
Mats Deutschmann; Justin Zelime; Angeline Mbogo Barrett; Eliakimu Sane; Maryam Jaffar Ismail – European Educational Research Journal, 2024
A prerequisite for learning is that instructions and other learning activities take place in a language that you understand. This may seem self-evident, but fact remains that most learners in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are taught in a European second language (L2) that they are unfamiliar with. Frequently, the role of the home languages in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction, Educational Policy, Barriers
Ben A. Coldham – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2024
Responding to the observation that there has been limited policy research in the field of international education (Hayden and Thompson 2008; Lehman 2018), the current article presents a theoretically grounded discussion regarding how British policy actors in Council of International School (CIS)-accredited British international schools may be…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, International Schools, English Language Learners
Richard L. Sparks – Journal of Disability Policy Studies, 2024
Twenty-five years ago, the author contributed a historical review of evidence on the foreign language (FL) learning problems of low-achieving and learning disabled (LD) students. Educators had proposed a new disability, FL learning disability, and developed policies permitting LD students to substitute courses or waive the FL requirement. The…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Learning Disabilities, Students with Disabilities, Cultural Context
David Cassels Johnson; Melanie Carbine; Christine Shea – Foreign Language Annals, 2024
This study analyzes the programs and policies for Spanish heritage language (SHL) students in Iowa high schools. Previous research suggests that SHL students do not enjoy equitable educational experiences in Spanish language classrooms, which are often taught by and designed for traditional second language learners. In US states like Iowa, there…
Descriptors: Ideology, Spanish, Second Language Learning, Native Language
Chun Zeng; Kevin Wai-Ho Yung – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2025
The increasing trend of early English education has promoted the rapid growth of English private tutoring (EPT) for children, which garners attention in research as a global educational phenomenon. In China, EPT for children experienced a fervent expansion under neoliberalism. However, a recent policy (Double-Reduction Policy) has banned EPT for…
Descriptors: Private Education, Tutoring, Parent Attitudes, Beliefs
Christa van der Walt – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
The purpose of this paper is to describe and reflect on the position of what are called second additional languages in the language teaching landscape of South African schools. This landscape is crowded, with different South African languages vying for attention. Amidst efforts to increase the number of learners who offer an African language as…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, German, French, Mandarin Chinese
Masatoshi Sato; Steven L. Thorne; Marije Michel; Theodora Alexopoulou; John Hellermann – Modern Language Journal, 2025
With a forward-looking and problem-solving mindset, this article aims to combine theoretical knowledge and empirical evidence from different schools of thought in the field of second language (L2) learning and teaching--namely, instructed second language acquisition, generative linguistics, and an ecological perspective that includes multiple…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Albert Weideman – Educational Linguistics, 2024
Analogies of the biotic modality within the technical sphere center on notions of vitality, differentiation of function, organization, adaptation and development. On the norm side, these organic analogies allow us to envision technical norms for the development of applied linguistic artefacts, which underlie the coming to fruition and maturation…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Applied Linguistics, Language Research, Curriculum Design
Shalva Tabatadze; Kakha Gabunia – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2025
This study examines the current landscape of language policy in higher educational institutions (HEIs) in Georgia, focusing on teaching, research, and administration. A purposive selection of strategic documents from seventeen public and private universities forms the basis of analysis using Thematic Content Analysis (TCA). The research identifies…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Educational Policy, Content Analysis, State Universities
Mark B. Pacheco; F. Chris Curran; Lelydeyvis Boza; Amber W. Deig; Katharine T. Harris; Tiffany S. Tan – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2024
This study contributes to a growing body of scholarship at the intersection of bilingual education and education policy and examines reclassification, or the transition out of formal English language services in schools, as one potential lever in accelerating or decelerating multilingual learners' science learning. More specifically, it traces…
Descriptors: Classification, Bilingual Education, Educational Policy, Educational Research
Amanda Lee Tegels – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this study was to understand the current reality of multilingual learner supports in schools in Greater Minnesota and align that current reality with the Minnesota Learning English for Academic Proficiency and Success (LEAPS) Act in order to make recommendations at the local level and advocate at a greater scale. This was an…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, School Districts
Yuanyuan Liu; Chenxin Wang; Hui Jin – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2025
Previous studies of affordance have not explored in detail how a special type of affordance -- institutional affordance -- worked in multilingualism. By drawing empirical voices of students, this study investigates how institutional affordance supplied by a collegiate multilingual education policy was perceived and utilised by students. A thematic…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Ethnography