Publication Date
In 2025 | 0 |
Since 2024 | 0 |
Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 0 |
Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 3 |
Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 5 |
Descriptor
Source
Current Issues in Language… | 5 |
Author
Banda, Felix | 1 |
Benholz, Claudia | 1 |
Evans, Stephen | 1 |
Mavruk, Gülsah | 1 |
Morrison, Bruce | 1 |
Möllering, Martina | 1 |
Payne, Mark | 1 |
Willoughby, Louisa | 1 |
Publication Type
Journal Articles | 5 |
Reports - Research | 3 |
Reports - Descriptive | 1 |
Reports - Evaluative | 1 |
Education Level
Secondary Education | 5 |
Higher Education | 2 |
Postsecondary Education | 2 |
High Schools | 1 |
Audience
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Banda, Felix – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2018
Drawing on the notion of translanguaging, I show how learners in a Black township secondary school in Cape Town use their multilingual repertoire to achieve power, agency and voice. I use the conceptualisation of the prototypical pedagogical macrogenre from systemic functional linguistics to show how translanguaging can be used strategically to…
Descriptors: Native Language, English (Second Language), African Languages, Secondary School Students
Payne, Mark – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2017
The arrival of large numbers of Slovak Roma to Sheffield over a relatively short period has inserted two new languages (Slovak and Romani) into an already diverse, multilingual school environment. Schools face challenges in welcoming the new migrant children, inducting and integrating them and facilitating access to the English school curriculum.…
Descriptors: Minority Groups, Secondary School Students, Foreign Countries, Language Planning
Evans, Stephen; Morrison, Bruce – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2017
Research into the medium of instruction (MOI) in Hong Kong has traditionally focused on years 7-9; thus, little is known about school policies and classroom practices in the crucial senior-secondary years which fall beyond the ambit of government diktats. This lacuna is particularly conspicuous in the case of Chinese-medium schools, whose students…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language of Instruction, Sino Tibetan Languages
Möllering, Martina; Benholz, Claudia; Mavruk, Gülsah – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2014
This contribution traces the development of an educational support program ("Förderunterricht") for immigrant children in the German Ruhr area, a region that has traditionally been strongly impacted by different waves of immigration. The program has grown out of what was originally a small-scale application of research results of a study…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Educational Policy, German, Geographic Regions
Willoughby, Louisa – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2014
The heterogeneous backgrounds, languages and proficiencies students bring to the classroom have always been a key challenge facing schools that wish to implement heritage language programmes. In this article I describe the evolution of one high school's approach to heritage language education and some of the roadblocks they encountered in…
Descriptors: Heritage Education, Second Language Instruction, Native Language Instruction, Language of Instruction