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Kitchen, Richard; Castellón, Libni B.; Matute, Karla – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2023
In this article, the authors share the instructional moves that a fifth-grade teacher, made to simultaneously develop the mathematical reasoning of multilingual learners and the mathematics register required to write a multiplication story. The teacher incorporated tasks in her lessons that fostered students' mathematical reasoning consistent with…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Elementary School Teachers, Multilingualism, Mathematics Instruction
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Erica Darken; Lisa Yuk Kuen Yau; Mark Hauber; Jie Park – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2024
This collaboratively authored piece highlights Poetry Inside Out, a poetry translation program that creates new pathways for culturally and linguistically sustaining literacy education. In Poetry Inside Out, students collaborate to translate world-class poems from their original language (e.g., Spanish, Chinese) into English. Informing PIO's…
Descriptors: Poetry, Translation, Literacy, Inquiry
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Nils Jaekel; Markus Ritter; Julia Jaekel – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
Globally classrooms are increasingly linguistically diverse. Research often oversimplifies lived linguistic heterogeneity as binary variables: native versus non-native. Linguistic distance (LD) measures allow a fine-grained operationalization of linguistic diversity in foreign language education. This study investigated associations of cognate LDs…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 5, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Valentina Carbonara; Andrea Scibetta; Jacopo Torregrossa – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
The present study investigates whether exposure to multilingual pedagogies enhances emergent bilingual children's narrative abilities. These abilities are among the most reliable indicators of children's literacy skills. We compare two groups of emergent bilingual children with migrant background attending the fourth and fifth grade of a public…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Teaching Methods, Educational Benefits, Native Language
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Isabelle Udry; Raphael Berthele – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2025
Academic self-concept (ASC) is a student's self-perceived level of ability in an academic domain and a major factor involved in academic performance. We examined the importance of internal/external sources of evaluation for the structure of L2 and L3 ASCs in two groups of 5th/6th graders learning English and French in Switzerland (mean age: 12.1).…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Academic Ability, Grade 5, Grade 6
Sharma, Shweta – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2023
The interactional role of language use in the mathematics classroom is explored in the last few decades. This paper adds to the knowledge base by exploring different ways of talking that children and their teacher use in a New Zealand primary geometry English-medium classroom. Bakhtin's concept of speech genres is used for an analysing transcript…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Classroom Communication, Language Usage, Speech Communication
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Natascha Drachmann – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
Within educational research, there has been an increased interest in recent years to develop learners' language awareness (LA) in the context of plurilingual education. Recommendations and intentions are given pointing to the benefits, but there are few concrete tools for how it can be carried out in practice. The article seeks to contribute to…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Teacher Attitudes, Models, Metalinguistics
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Rydland, Veslem?y; Gr?ver, Vibeke – Language and Education, 2019
Although recent research has documented that classroom discussions may enhance students' reading comprehension, limited knowledge exists regarding the 'working ingredients' that extend students' comprehension of texts through peer discussion. This observational study examines the pre- and post-discussion comprehension of fifth graders,…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Persuasive Discourse, Reading Comprehension, Elementary School Students
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Cenoz, Jasone; Leonet, Oihana; Gorter, Durk – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
This article is on pedagogical translanguaging, understood as planned instructional strategies used with a pedagogical purpose in a multilingual educational context. The paper reports a study on cognate identification and cognate awareness carried out in a multilingual primary school. The study aims at analyzing whether the identification of…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Teaching Methods, Multilingualism, Elementary School Students
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Jackie E. Relyea; Dennis S. Davis; Corrie Dobis; Becky Huang; Courtney Samuelson – Grantee Submission, 2025
This study evaluated the feasibility of the Knowledge, Language, and Inquiry (K.L.I.) intervention, designed to support Grades 3-5 multilingual students classified as English learners (ML-ELs) in building content knowledge, language skills, and reading comprehension through inquiry-based small-group instruction. Feasibility was examined across…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Elementary School Students
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Liaw, Marsha Jing Ji; Botelho, Maria José; Lau, Sunny Man Chu – Reading Teacher, 2023
As K-5 dual language programs gain popularity in the United States, language teaching, however, often still prioritizes discrete and decontextualized learning that is not built on students' interests and experiences or their multilingual and multimodal resources. This article reports on a classroom-based ethnographic case study and illustrates how…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Writing Processes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Jackie E. Relyea; Dennis Davis; Corrie Dobis; Becky Huang; Courtney Samuelson – Journal of Educational Research, 2025
This study evaluated the feasibility of the Knowledge, Language, and Inquiry (K.L.I.) intervention, designed to support Grades 3-5 multilingual students classified as English learners (ML-ELs) in building content knowledge, language skills, and reading comprehension through inquiry-based small-group instruction. Feasibility was examined across…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Troyan, Francis John; Auger, Nathalie – Language and Education, 2023
This case study investigated the practiced language policies of a French elementary school educator, Catherine, as she implemented the French National Cycle of instruction for the early elementary grades with a culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) class of students. The findings revealed that macro-level policies--such as curriculum and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, French, Second Language Learning, Elementary School Teachers
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Leonet, Oihana; Cenoz, Jasone; Gorter, Durk – Language Awareness, 2020
This article focuses on the development of morphological awareness in English as a third language. It analyses how the activation of previous linguistic knowledge can influence morphological awareness. Participants were 104 primary school students who were learning English as a third language and were already fluent in two other languages, Basque…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Code Switching (Language), English (Second Language), Metalinguistics
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Shanmugam, S. Kanageswari Suppiah; Veloo, Arsaythamby; Md-Ali, Ruzlan – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2021
This study examined the validity of trilingual test as a test accommodation to assess the Indigenous pupils' mathematical performance in Malaysia. The study employed two tests; BM-only test with items written in Malay language (BM) and trilingual test, which had items written in BM and English, and oral audio recording in their native Temiar…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Testing Accommodations, Grade 5, Elementary School Students
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