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Mayu Aoki; Yukiko Asami-Johansson; Carl Winsløw – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2025
Natural language is known to play a crucial and specific role for children's learning in school mathematics. Not only does it carry special vocabulary, but subtle differences between natural languages may lead to surprising challenges, for instance, for learners who are not taught mathematics in their mother tongue. In this paper, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Swedish, Mathematics Instruction, Language Role
Thomas Lloyd; Dean Yang – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2025
How does early educational quality affect longer-term academic outcomes? We shed light on this question via a natural experiment in the Philippines--the implementation of a mother tongue education policy in public schools in kindergarten to Grade 3. This policy led to an unexpected decline in educational quality, but differentially in a subset of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational Quality, Native Language
Vanbuel, Marieke; Van den Branden, Kris – Language Policy, 2023
Recent studies in the field of language education policy (LEP) have emphasized the agency of educators in language policy implementation, which considerably influences the policy outcome. These studies, however, often focus on LEP measures for newcomers or ethnic minority students, and on the language used for instruction as the main LEP…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Language Usage, Elementary Schools, Language of Instruction
Motunrayo Adeosun – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In this qualitative study, the experiences, training, and challenges of teachers in primary schools in a community in southwest Nigeria were explored. The purpose of this study was to identify the experiences of teachers about their training for mother tongue instruction and how they teach pupils with the mother tongue or local language of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, STEM Education, Native Language
Khama Mashuro; Leonie Gysbertha Higgs – South African Journal of Education, 2025
In this study we critically investigated English as the language of learning and teaching (LoLT) in the Chivi district (Zimbabwe) and the implications of its use as the LoLT for social justice education. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews, focus-group interviews, observation and document analysis. The results show that social…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction, Social Justice, English (Second Language)
Akhil Kumar Singh – Policy Futures in Education, 2025
The National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 marks a significant shift in India's educational framework, particularly with its emphasis on multilingual education (MLE) and mother tongue-based instruction (MTI). Recognizing India's vast linguistic diversity, the policy advocates for teaching in the mother tongue or local language until at least Grade…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Native Language, Educational Policy
Atin Kurniawati; Arief Eko Priyo Atmojo – Acuity: Journal of English Language Pedagogy, Literature and Culture, 2025
This study investigates teachers' beliefs and practices in implementing CLIL in an Indonesian primary school context. Drawing on narrative inquiry, fruitful themes and subthemes were generated from the thematic analysis of teachers' stories, representing their teaching experiences in CLIL classes. Involving four CLIL teachers with 5--11 years of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Content and Language Integrated Learning, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods
Rob Hammel – Odyssey: New Directions in Deaf Education, 2024
In October 2023, a new deaf student, "Zuri," showed up in my second grade classroom. This often happens. Parents move into and out of the district for work, and it is common to get a new student in the middle of the year without warning. Zuri's eyes were wide when she came into the classroom, and she looked scared. Who were all these…
Descriptors: Deafness, Grade 2, Immersion Programs, Language Usage
Dyalma Bracero – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This qualitative phenomenological study aimed to better understand elementary school educators' experiences and perceptions concerning the availability of professional development opportunities and their ability to apply the learned information. The problem addressed in this study was the lack of professional development training educators…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teaching Experience, Teacher Attitudes, Faculty Development
Kong, Na Young; Hurless, Nicole – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2023
Vocabulary plays a critical role in later reading achievement of emergent bilingual children (EBC) who are learning two languages. Given emerging vocabulary intervention research for EBC, we synthesize studies on vocabulary interventions designed for preschool and kindergarten EBC to provide the cumulative knowledge on the following dimensions:…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Bilingualism, Preschool Children, Preschool Education
Mihaela Gazioglu; Mikel W. Cole – NABE Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
Translanguaging pedagogies support multilingual students by activating prior knowledge, integrating home languages and cultures, and utilizing multimodal learning. However, as equity-oriented pedagogies, they redress long-standing practices of denying students access to their home languages or demanding a strict separation of their interwoven…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Translation, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students
Langeloo, Annegien; Deunk, Marjolein I.; Lara, Mayra Mascareño; Strijbos, Jan-Willem – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2023
With a growing number of multilingual children entering early childhood education, teachers are challenged to create appropriate learning opportunities for all children. Given diverse literacy skills and cultural backgrounds, early childhood educators might provide different support to children after an inappropriate child response depending on…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Monolingualism, Language Usage, Language of Instruction
Tina Cok – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2024
In terms of integration policy, Slovenia is considered a country that promotes the integration of children with an immigrant background into schools as quickly as possible. However fast the integration process may be, languages always play a key role in the education of pupils with an immigrant background and teachers need to adapt to their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Immigration, Inclusion
Admire Mhindu – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2025
Mother Tongue Education (MTE), despite being the most reliable method of learning, is a challenge for the African countries that fail to implement MTE policies due to lack of resources, stakeholders' attitudes towards mother tongues, and lack of political will. Keeping in view the plight of the primary implementers of such policies, hence, this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, African Languages, Native Language Instruction, Language Minorities
Krause-Alzaidi, Lara-Stephanie – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2023
Linguistic heterogeneity and fluidity--prominently captured in the notion of 'translanguaging'-- are starting to be seen as normative and natural. In turn, homogeneity and fixity, instantiated for example in standard languages, are becoming the 'odd-ones-out.' I challenge the dichotomy between linguistic fluidity (languaging) and fixity (named…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Usage, Writing (Composition), Elementary Education