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Ozfidan, Burhan; Burlbaw, Lynn M. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2022
The purpose of this study is to discuss the benefits of developing a bilingual education program and what this program can offer regarding concerns related to the lives of minority people in Turkey. Explanatory sequential mixed method was used for this study. The first phase of this study was a survey that measured the perspectives of educators…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Educational Benefits, Program Development, Language Minorities
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Tam, Angela Choi Fung – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
The discourse around combining local, national and international languages constitutes an important issue in the global education agenda (Kirkpatrick and Chau 2008). Ideas about how trilingual education ought to be designed and implemented vary across stakeholders. This study explores (1) the beliefs which early childhood education (ECE -- ECE…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Early Childhood Education, Language Usage, Native Language
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Skerrett, Mere – Early Childhood Folio, 2018
This article emphasises some of the shifts highlighted by the Ministry of Education in the refreshed "Te Whariki: He Whariki Matauranga mo nga Mokopuna o Aotearoa--Early Childhood Curriculum" (Ministry of Education, 2017) ("Te Whariki 2017"). Some of those shifts include the ideas of "Te Whariki 2017" being a…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Biculturalism, Critical Literacy, Curriculum Design
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Lü, Chan – Foreign Language Annals, 2017
Pinyin is a sound-annotating system for Chinese characters using Roman letters. Teaching and learning Pinyin has been an important educational practice in Mainland China for native Chinese children, and it is also typically taught to beginning learners of Chinese as a foreign/second language in tertiary-level classrooms. However, whether it should…
Descriptors: Chinese, Orthographic Symbols, Written Language, Second Language Learning