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Marianne Turner; Ekaterina Tour – Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 2024
In countries such as Australia, the bi/multilingual student demographic is increasing. Bi/multilingual students are commonly learning alongside monolingual students and also Indigenous and first- and second-generation immigrant students who have a great range of exposure to heritage languages. In this article, we explore how literacies and…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Native Language
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Oliver, Rhonda; Wigglesworth, Gillian; Angelo, Denise; Steele, Carly – Language Teaching Research, 2021
With a focus on Australian Aboriginal students, in this article we argue that translanguaging provides a useful resource for multilingual learners. We point out that although translanguaging is a relatively recent term, in Indigenous Australia is has been used consistently throughout the ages as people from different languages communicated with…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Indigenous Populations, Standard Spoken Usage, Teaching Methods
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Eisuke Saito; Michelle Ludecke – Studying Teacher Education, 2024
Faculty who do not speak the language of instruction in their universities as their first language face additional challenges in teaching. This study aimed to investigate a non-native speaker faculty member, Eisuke Saito, who had attempted to manage and overcome language challenges in teaching. Through an autobiographical self-study of teacher…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, College Faculty, Language of Instruction, Native Language
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Filipi, Anna; Chuang, Mu-Sen Kevin – Classroom Discourse, 2023
This study explored the language practices of a small group of international Chinese students in an anglophone Higher Education context where English was the medium of instruction. The context was the first year of an early childhood education course at an Australian university. Building on findings from research in conversation analysis on…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Native Language, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Turner, Marianne; Fielding, Ruth – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2021
The term 'CLIL' has been used in Australia for over a decade, and the approach has helped to invigorate languages education in both primary and secondary schools. In particular, the flexibility of CLIL has led to a range of teachers accessing CLIL training: from teachers in structured programs where schools have committed to organisational change,…
Descriptors: Content and Language Integrated Learning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Bonita Marie Cabiles – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2021
This article explores initial thinking about a pedagogy of discomfort for teaching in the context of cultural and linguistic diversity. To foster inclusive and socially just cultures of participation, contemporary classrooms need to attend to the subtle ways that taken-for-granted teaching practices marginalise diverse cultural and linguistic…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Cultural Differences, Classroom Communication, Cultural Background
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Ma, Lai Ping Florence – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2019
The first language (L1) of language learners is a rich source of language knowledge that bilingual teachers and learners can bring to classrooms to facilitate second-language (L2) acquisition. While previous research suggests that L1 can provide learners with cognitive, pedagogical, and psychological benefits, what functions that it performs and…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Role, Second Language Learning, Immigrants
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Trees, Kathryn – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2013
This paper discusses facilitating student collegiality within diverse student groups. It argues that diverse student groups of international, domestic, mature age and Gen Y students often have similar difficulties and strengths although they may occur for quite different reasons and understanding this is useful when deciding on teaching and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Strategies, Student Diversity, Collegiality
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Gearon, Margaret Mary – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2011
Task-based learning has been recommended in immersion classes in order to provide relief from the usual teacher-fronted lessons and increase the opportunities for student output. This paper presents one aspect of the data collected during the on-going evaluation of a late partial immersion French programme in an Australian school. It presents the…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Interpersonal Communication, French, Bilingualism
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Tognini, Rita; Philp, Jenefer; Oliver, Rhonda – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2010
This paper reports on a study of peer interaction in ten foreign language (FL) classes, six secondary and four primary, over a period of four months. The focus of this paper is the nature of peer interaction, including the purposes of second language use, and language choice. The data, comprising observation, audio and video recordings of five…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction