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Hoa Thi Mai Nguyen; Hang Thi Thu Nguyen; Xuesong Gao; Trang Hong Hoang; Sue Starfield – Language and Education, 2024
In this paper, we report on an international collaborative project designed to address the professional development needs of Vietnamese teachers for the implementation of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL). We collected data on a group of CLIL Vietnamese teachers and leaders through online interviews. Drawing on Cultural-Historical…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, Foreign Countries, International Cooperation, Learning Processes
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Egitim, Soyhan – Power and Education, 2022
In recent years, content integrated language education has taken center stage in Japanese university English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) settings. The emphasis on content has created an opportunity for students to demonstrate analytical thinking, assessment, inference, and problem-solving skills through oral communication activities in English…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Rothe, Lucian; Tsui, Chiann Karen; García, Paul A.; McCloskey, Michael B. – NECTFL Review, 2023
Stereotypical notions and depictions of the German language, its speakers, and cultural practices are more persistent in instructional materials, language program advertisements, and people's minds than one might presume (Bryant et al., 2019; Chavez, 2020a, 2020b; Rothe, 2022). Overcoming such misconceptions requires educators to reconsider…
Descriptors: German, Stereotypes, Language Attitudes, Second Language Learning
Linh Dang – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Scholars who study Southeast Asian American (SEAA) communities are in consensus that this group's realities diverge from their Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) counterparts. In fact, nearly four decades after large-scale immigration as political refugees from Southeast Asia (SEA), this population composed of Cambodians, Hmong, Laotians,…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Educational Attainment, Asian American Students, Correlation
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Nasiri, Sekineh; Santiago, Geraldine Marquez – Texas Association for Literacy Education Yearbook, 2017
In recent years, the number of refugee English language learners (ELLs) in the United States has increased exponentially (Edwards, 2016). Yet, many schools are unprepared to meet the cultural and academic needs of these learners. Recent research on this topic has indicated that a number of strategies can be used to prepare refugee ELLs in the…
Descriptors: Caring, English Language Learners, Refugees, Language Proficiency
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Panggabean, Himpun – English Language Teaching, 2015
This article deals with problematic approach to English learning and teaching due to misleading conception on the nature of English and on the process of acquiring it as well as the clues to the issues. The clues are: Firstly, English is not more difficult than any other languages, including Indonesian language, "Bahasa Indonesia".…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods
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Gómez Sará, Mary Mily – HOW, 2017
This article reviews the background of the foreign language bilingualism in Colombia, as well as the Colombian bilingualism plans and the policy launched between 2004 and 2016. Then, these plans and policy are analyzed taking into account the most common criticisms from the academic community. In this sense, aspects such as the lack of continuity,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Bilingualism, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Young, Andrea S. – Language Awareness, 2014
In France, most teachers still receive scant training in how to support plurilingual children in their learning of and through the language of instruction. In the absence of relevant, in-depth knowledge about language, we believe that many teachers are practising language policies based on beliefs rooted in ideologies unsupported by research…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Language of Instruction
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Orwenjo, Daniel Ochieng – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2012
Arguments that have been advanced against multilingual education in Kenya and Africa in general are not new. Most post-colonial African governments have stuck to the pre-colonial education policies which have no relevance to the present day Africa and were, at best, guided by the interests of the colonial power. Unfortunately, most of the claims…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Foreign Policy
Walser, Nancy, Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2011
"Harvard Education Letter" is published bimonthly at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. This issue of "Harvard Education Letter" contains the following articles: (1) With Cheating on the Rise, Schools Respond (David McKay Wilson); (2) Waldorf Education in Public Schools: Educators Adopt--and Adapt--This Developmental, Arts-Rich Approach…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Cheating, Ethics, Second Language Instruction
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Grill, Jennifer – TESOL Journal, 2010
The author, a teacher educator, explains that because of a lack of training in language studies, many teachers do not view language as linguists do. She identifies three misconceptions (and the implications they have for English language learners) that still persist in education: Standard English is the best and most correct form of English,…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, Dialects, Second Language Learning, Native Speakers
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Gottlieb, Margo – State Education Standard, 2012
In the country's multilingual, multicultural schools, English language learners (ELLs)--students eligible to receive language support to access and achieve grade-level content--are the fastest growing K-12 population. Demographic trends of the past decade indicate a steady rise in the number of English language learners to over five million…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, State Standards, Stakeholders, Educational Quality
Alberta Education, 2010
The aim of this document is to give teachers and administrators the contextual and pedagogical tools for the late immersion program. It acts as a guide for beginning and experienced teachers who need to update their knowledge regarding this program and its details. For many working in this area, it also confirms their daily practices as well as…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, French, Second Language Instruction, Adolescents
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Hadaway, Nancy L.; Young, Terrell A. – Language Arts, 2009
Immigrants currently make up over 12% of the U.S. population, with children of immigrants comprising more than 20% of the population. Consequently, English learners are the fastest growing group in U.S. schools today, accounting for 10.5% of the total public school student population in Pre-K through Grade 12 in 2004-2005, a 56.2% increase over…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Second Language Learning, Picture Books, Migrant Children
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Harper, Candace; de Jong, Ester – Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 2004
English language learners (ELLs) are the fastest growing group of K-12 students in the United States. Most ELLs spend the entire school day in mainstream classrooms where instruction is in English. It is therefore important for all teachers to have the knowledge and skills needed to facilitate these students' academic language development and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Misconceptions, Learning Processes, Teaching Methods
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