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Direct linkNordstrom, Janica – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
Community language schools have grown to become significant educational language providers worldwide. Schools operate as global grassroot initiatives (Liddicoat and Taylor-Leech [2014]. "Micro Language Planning for Multilingual Education: Agency in Local Contexts." "Current Issues in Language Planning" 15 (3): 237-244.), and…
Descriptors: Community Schools, Native Language Instruction, Bilingual Education, Immigrants
Download full textOkumura, Shinji; Obara, Yumi – Online Submission, 2017
The Melbourne International School of Japanese (MISJ) is a supplementary Saturday school which offers Japanese language and mathematics taught in Japanese from kindergarten to senior secondary level. Classes are scheduled on Saturdays from 9am to 3pm and approximately half of the program is dedicated to mathematics. While mathematics education…
Descriptors: Japanese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
de Courcy, Michele; Smilevska, Jovanka – Babel, 2012
Research holds that, for bilingual children, a strong establishment in one language not only develops skills in that language, but also facilitates the development of a second language. The participants for this research were six nine-year-old children who were being educated in their first language, Macedonian, and also in English. This research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Strategies, Children, Bilingual Education
Peer reviewedMakin, Laurie – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 1992
Describes the Home Language Support Project, which is an attempt to help mainstream teachers include children's home languages in educational programs. Questions that arose during the implementation of the program are discussed, including language delivery patterns in home language support programs and the issue of code switching. (19 references)…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Code Switching (Language), Day Care, Elementary Education
Malcolm, Ian G. – 1994
Activities at Edith Cowan University (Australia) in support of the maintenance of Aboriginal languages and Aboriginal English are discussed. Discussion begins with an examination of the concept of language maintenance and the reasons it merits the attention of linguists, language planners, and language teachers. Australian policy concerning…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, English, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations
Birch, Gary – 1996
This paper describes a limited bilingual approach developed for Vietnamese immigrants whose formal schooling had been interrupted due to extended periods in refugee camps, and its implementation in the Milpera Special School (Queensland, Australia), a secondary school for children of Non-English-Speaking Backgrounds (NESB). The initiative was…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Concept Formation, Educational Experience, Educational Strategies
Lo Bianco, Joseph, Ed. – VOX: The Journal of the Australian Advisory Council on Languages and Multicultural Education, 1991
This document consists of the three issues of the serial "VOX" published in 1989-1991. Major articles in these issues include: "The Original Languages of Australia"; "UNESCO and Universal Literacy"; "Language Shift and Maintenance in Torres Strait"; "Maintaining and Developing Italian in…
Descriptors: Asian Studies, Bilingual Education, Certification, Communicative Competence (Languages)
