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Xolisa Guzula; Soraya Abdulatief – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Literacy Association of South Africa, 2024
Background: Our article argues that the role of translingual instruction in mathematics classrooms is under-recognised in South Africa, as policymakers, teacher educators, teachers, learners, and parents assume that mathematics is just about numbers and calculations and not language. This is despite findings on the value of using children's…
Descriptors: Translation, Language Usage, Code Switching (Language), Grade 9
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Rebecca E. Linares – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2024
This paper explores how a transnational emergent multilingual (TEM) student established himself in relation to his teacher and peers in a culturally and linguistically diverse, sheltered English Instruction classroom. Specifically, it documents how the student initiated translingual and cross-cultural social interactions positioning himself as a…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Peer Relationship, Teacher Student Relationship, Language Usage
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Perera, Nirukshi – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2021
Transplanting non-Western religions to Western nations results in first-generation migrant attempts to transmit faith in vastly different contexts. Especially as adolescents, second-generation migrants tackle mediating their personal religious beliefs in a society with diverse religions and ideologies as well as negotiating membership of their…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Religious Education, Generational Differences, Adolescents
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Ramirez, Pablito; Jaffee, Ashley Taylor – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
This qualitative study investigated the ways in which one secondary social studies teacher engaged bilingual youth through translanguaging and citizenship education. We employed a translanguaging framework (García 2014) to document the ways in which a ninth grade bilingual teacher created language spaces with students. This study demonstrates the…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Secondary School Teachers, Citizenship Education, Bilingualism
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Karabassova, Laura; San Isidro, Xabier – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
Since its inception in the 1990s Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) has transformed from an initiative to improve communicative competence in foreign languages into a complex language-aware construct in which translanguaging and curriculum integration are identifiable pedagogical practices. This shift of paradigm in its…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Content and Language Integrated Learning, Code Switching (Language), Translation
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Peichang (Emily) He; Angel M. Y. Lin – Language Awareness, 2024
This article drew on the recent dynamic, distributed view of "translanguaging and flows" and the New Materiality view of meaning making to explore content and language integrated learning (CLIL) activities in an English-Medium-Instruction (EMI) secondary Science classroom. Fine-grained analysis of the multilingual and multimodal…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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McKinney, Carolyn; Tyler, Robyn – Language and Education, 2019
Language ideologies profoundly shape and constrain the use of language as a resource for learning in 'multilingual' or linguistically diverse classrooms. In this paper, we draw attention in particular to the ideology of languages as stable, boundaried objects and to the colonial invention of African languages. Against this backdrop, we analyse an…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Code Switching (Language), Semiotics, Bilingualism
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Viswanathan, Usha – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 2019
This study explores the relationship between Core French teachers' beliefs and their instructional practices. In the literature, contextual elements, as well as the compatibility between teacher beliefs and second language teaching approaches such as communicative language teaching (CLT) have been regularly cited as key factors contributing to…
Descriptors: Correlation, Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, French
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Maluch, Jessica Tsimprea; Kempert, Sebastian – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2019
This study investigates the effect of bilingualism on learning English as a foreign language (L3), examining the impact of manner and sequence of bilingual acquisition and learning as well as language use practices in language minority children. With a sample of 1295 German eighth and ninth graders (bilingual: n = 456, monolingual: n = 839), we…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Multilingualism, Language Minorities, English (Second Language)
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Makgato, Moses – Africa Education Review, 2015
English is the language of learning and teaching in most schools in South Africa. The ability of teachers and students to understand and communicate with each other in English contributes to better performance in Science and Technology subjects. This article explores the challenges posed by the use of English in the teaching and learning of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction, Language Usage, Technology Education