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Manoochehr Jafarigohar; Hoda Divsar; Parisa Etemad – Language Teaching Research, 2025
This cross-sectional study aimed to explore the nature and the patterns of lexical growth in content and language integrated learning (CLIL) and non-CLIL learners across three successive academic years. To pursue the purpose of the study a total of 110 female students of six classes in 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades in both bilingual and monolingual…
Descriptors: Content and Language Integrated Learning, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Females
Mitali Thatte; Katie Makar – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2024
This study was conducted in Maharashtra, India with children studying in a regional medium (Marathi) government school. In Marathi, the translation of the word 'about' is not very commonly used. The aim of the study was to see how the children used uncertain language about prediction while engaged in a statistical investigation and how children…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Native Language, Language of Instruction
de Lemios, Ronald O. – Online Submission, 2023
The study aimed to investigate the impact of Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE) on students' writing skills in their first language (L1), Tagalog, and explore whether their proficiency in L1 contributes to their second language (L2) writing. This study employed a conceptual framework based on language acquisition and bilingual…
Descriptors: Tagalog, Native Language, Language of Instruction, Writing Skills
Talamantes, Maria Del Rosario – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2023
This critical classroom study of language oppression draws from the notion of existing inequalities based on power relations in education research, as addressed in a critical ethnography. This critical classroom study explores the cases of two recent immigrant students, "Manuel" and "Malena," on the -U.S.-Mexican border near El…
Descriptors: Personal Narratives, Power Structure, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Jungin Lee; Unkyoung Maeng – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2024
This action research explores how teachers and students at a private elementary school in Gyeonggi Province perceive the effectiveness of the English-only TEE policy and proposes a revised model tailored to the school's diverse needs. A total of 250 students and 6 teachers participated in the study, with data collected through surveys, interviews,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Schools, Elementary Schools, Program Effectiveness
Rajendram, Shakina – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
Translanguaging offers a new perspective on language learning by affirming and leveraging the diverse language practices that make up learners' unitary language repertoire as resources for their learning. Despite the potential pedagogical benefits of translanguaging, English-only policies are still prevalent in many language classrooms. Even when…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Language of Instruction
Gunnerud, Hilde Lowell; Foldnes, Njål; Melby-Lervåg, Monica – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2022
Bilingualism appears to be related to poor language and reading comprehension in the instructional language (L2). However, in the long term, an early age of second language acquisition (AoA) may produce higher levels of second language skills than a later onset of L2 exposure. Most studies on school-aged second language learners (L2 learners)…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Bilingualism, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
Victoria Rae Seelinger – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Administrators and teachers are tasked with the opportunity to implement bilingual programs to accommodate the growing population of multilingual learners, or MLs. There is a debate in the field about the most appropriate structure for bilingual programs. Sheltered Instruction (SI) is a way to "shelter" MLs from the anxiety of regular…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Multilingualism, Bilingual Education, Language Proficiency
Calchei, Marcela; Barrett, Karen Caplovitz; Amukune, Stephen; Józsa, Krisztián – Cogent Education, 2022
Recent empirical research has demonstrated the importance of mastery motivation in child development. Therefore, it is essential to have valid and reliable instruments to measure this variable. The Dimensions of Mastery Questionnaires (DMQ 18) was validated in English, Hungarian, Chinese and Spanish. In this article, we evaluate the psychometric…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Russian, Romance Languages, Ethnic Groups
Jung, Philip-Yoongoo; Shin, Jeong-Ah – English Teaching, 2021
This study investigated if the difficulty of instructional classroom English in primary teacher-guidebooks of English is adequately manipulated by learner-proficiency. Corpora of classroom English were compiled from 20 guidebooks from five publishers, approved following the 2015 Revised National Curriculum of Korea. Extracted materials from grades…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Elementary Education, Guides
Martínez-Adrián, María; Arratibel-Irazusta, Izaskun – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2020
This article contributes to the scarcity of research on the interface between task-modality and the use of previously known languages (PKL) in young learners. It examines the use of Basque/Spanish by CLIL learners (aged 10-11) during oral interaction while completing two collaborative tasks in English: a speaking task and a speaking + writing…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), English Language Learners, Language Usage, Native Language
What Works Clearinghouse, 2022
Providing instruction in multiple languages has the potential to simultaneously help both native English speakers and English learners to develop language proficiency. "Dual language programs" can help native English speakers develop proficiency in a second language and English learners develop proficiency in both their native language…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Bilingual Education, English Language Learners, Language Usage
Jensen, Bryant; Valdés, Guadalupe; Gallimore, Ronald – Educational Researcher, 2021
Language in education for children and youth from low-income communities of color, including those learning English as an additional language, has been fraught for decades with ideological entanglements, conceptual ambiguities, and empirical limitations. Meanwhile, the teacher learning challenge to implement equitable teaching practices remains…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Classroom Communication, Lesson Plans, Video Technology
Mahoney, Kate; Lillie, Karen E.; Rolstad, Kellie; MacSwan, Jeff; DuBois, Natalie; Haladyna, Tom – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
The authors evaluate the success of Arizona's program for English Learners (ELs) twelve years after the implementation of Proposition 203 to determine whether it meets the "third prong" test of Castañeda v. Pickard (1981), which requires a demonstration of the effectiveness of a program after its implementation. This study is a follow-up…
Descriptors: State Legislation, English Language Learners, Court Litigation, Program Effectiveness
Jehanzeb Rashid Cheema; Saulat Pervez – Issues in Educational Research, 2024
In this study we evaluated the performance of the Elementary Reading Attitude Survey (ERAS) in a sample of 189 students in Grades 3 and 6 who attended a middle-tier private school in Karachi, Pakistan, where the medium of instruction was English (L2) and the majority language was Urdu (L1). We took a holistic approach and employed several…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Private Schools, Grade 3