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Gloria Vickov; Eva Jakupcevic – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2025
Writing is an important skill, often neglected at the beginning of formal L2 learning due to the perception that it might be difficult or interfere with acquiring L1 literacy skills. However, there are benefits to teaching writing early on, such as raising awareness of the English spelling system, which is particularly important given its…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Grade 2, Elementary School Students, English (Second Language)
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Ida Chavoshan; Talar Kaloustian; Brett David Wells – Foreign Language Annals, 2024
An important first step to globalizing and decentralizing foreign language education is to clarify current language teachers' perceptions of language varieties and how these perceptions influence their pedagogy. The present study looked at English and French language classrooms in K-12 and university settings in the United States to compare…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Language Variation, French, English (Second Language)
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Marie Rickert – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
This study examines how language ideologies are negotiated and navigated in a linguistically diverse kindergarten group in Germany, focusing on the multilingual language practices of teachers and children. Drawing on data generated during 3months of focused linguistic ethnographic fieldwork, I analyse situations in which children and teachers…
Descriptors: Polish, German, Kindergarten, Foreign Countries
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Xiaoyan, Hu; Jing, Zhou; Jin, Lixian; Huiping, Liu; Zhang, Li – Cogent Education, 2022
This study focuses on the experiences and feelings of pre-school children in two different regions about English learning to identify attitudinal differences in these attitudes between remote and urban areas. The research adopted the elicited metaphor analysis (EMA) to investigate the interest and preferences for English learning of 160 Chinese…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Language Attitudes, Rural Urban Differences
Shepard-Carey, Leah, Ed.; Tian, Zhongfeng, Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2023
This book presents one possible pathway towards the advancement of translanguaging pedagogies: teacher-researcher partnerships. Although the existing literature alludes to the value of such partnerships, there is a lack of research that explicitly describes the complex processes of designing and implementing translanguaging pedagogies in primary…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Native Language
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Vera Busse; Lara-Maria McLaren; Alexander Dahm – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Although calls for responding to migration-related diversity in education are not novel, few studies have examined linguistic and affective outcomes of diversity-sensitive approaches for vocabulary teaching. This article reports on an intervention study in which beginner English-foreign-language learners (N = 51, M[subscript age] = 8.67 years)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 3, English (Second Language)
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Henderson, Kathryn – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2022
Dual language bilingual education (DLBE) programs are critical sites for exploring language ideologies given the policy goals of student bilingualism, biliteracy, and biculturalism. Drawing on a larger study of language ideological inquiry, this article used predominantly interview data to explore the articulated language ideological stances of…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Language Attitudes, Biculturalism, Literacy
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Pesch, Anja Maria – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2021
This article explores the construction of multilingualism in the semiotic landscapes of two kindergartens, one in Norway and one in Germany. Semiotic landscape is here understood as the visual linguistic environment, including various semiotic resources, such as texts, symbols, drawings or pictures. In kindergarten, semiotic landscapes construct…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, German, Kindergarten, Semiotics
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Alvin D. Tenorio – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The implementation of the Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE) policy in the Philippine basic education has gained traction among educators. Skepticism as to its effectiveness is evident especially in mathematics class where English is the universally recognised medium. This study explored how elementary teachers from a rural…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language of Instruction, Educational Policy, Teacher Attitudes
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Tasha Austin – TESOL Journal, 2025
The use of linguistic landscapes (LLs) to expand the respect for and knowledge of minoritized language use has extended into classroom practice and teacher preparation. Nuanced racialized understandings of language that include multimodal and multilingual realities, however, complicate the potential for educators to make sense of the language they…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Language Usage, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Stephen Davis – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 2024
French immersion (FI) programs are becoming increasingly culturally and linguistically diverse as a result of growing migration to Canada. In the present mixed-methods study, I explore the perspectives and ideologies of teachers, principals, and central office staff in eight school divisions in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Alberta with respect to…
Descriptors: Refugees, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Immersion Programs
Dustin J. Hemsath – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation is a single-case study and employs a poststructural approach to discourse analysis to investigate how language ideologies of a world language (WL) preservice teacher develop. Prominent discourses about language teaching and learning in U.S. K-12 schools support monolingual ideologies (e.g., Rivers & Robinson, 2012). While…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Language Attitudes, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs
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Kim, Grace Jue Yeon; Weng, Zhenjie – TESL-EJ, 2022
This systematic review analyzes 20 empirical articles on translanguaging (TL) pedagogies in ESL and EFL contexts. The review is guided by the following questions: "(1) How is TL implemented across different teaching contexts? (2) What are the identified benefits and challenges in the implementation of TL in TESOL? (3) What are the identified…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Moharami, Mehdi; Daneshfar, Samran – Issues in Educational Research, 2022
Education policy seeks to define the purpose of schooling and design the educational sphere according to authorities' objectives and people's needs. Governments set policies and principles to reach their intended goals in education, preserving people's values and culture. Many countries provide learning foreign languages in their curriculum to…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Chang-Bacon, Chris K. – Educational Policy, 2022
With U.S. classrooms increasingly characterized by linguistic diversity, policies mandating teacher training around English learning have proliferated. Recent federal oversight prompted Massachusetts to implement an initiative to endorse its 70,000+ teachers in Sheltered English Immersion (SEI). While policy research has productively emphasized…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Educational Policy, Language Attitudes, Multilingualism
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