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Lukas Eibensteiner – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
Research has shown that non-native background languages (L2s) can play an important role in the acquisition of an L3/L[subscript n]. However, only a few studies have focussed on positive transfer from an L2 to an L3/Ln in the context of multilingual language acquisition of Romance past tenses. The present study therefore analyses the acquisition…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, German, English, Romance Languages
Sophie Begon – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2025
For newly arrived students who are d/Deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH), language acquisition is particularly complex. The spectrum of initial language situations ranges from no first language to multilingual acquisition contexts. In Germany, there are currently no studies that focus on the education of these learners. This prompted an interview study…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Deafness, Hard of Hearing, Second Language Learning
Lotta Kardel; Timo Ehmke; Svenja Lemmrich – Language Awareness, 2025
Teachers of all subjects and grades must remain aware of the linguistic and cultural diversity among their students, as second language learners often experience educational disadvantages. Therefore, (pre-service) teachers must acquire pedagogical language knowledge and skills in linguistically responsive teaching (LRT), and develop positive…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Teacher Education Programs, Longitudinal Studies
Kopecková, Romana; Wrembel, Magdalena; Gut, Ulrike; Balas, Anna – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
This study aims to investigate the nature of phonological awareness in young L3 learners, and the extent to which it changes over time as L2 and L3 learning progresses. Two groups of 12 closely matched multilinguals (total= 24, aged 12-13), who shared their L2 (English) but their L1/L3 (German/Polish) were mirrored, mimicked L2 and L3 accents in…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Phonological Awareness, Elementary School Students, Second Language Learning
Ramey, Shaydon – Hispania, 2023
While translation was once a key component of language teaching, throughout the twentieth century, it largely gave way to methods and approaches with a greater focus on communicative competence. However, efforts have been made in the past few decades to return translation and more generally multilingual language learning to classrooms. In the…
Descriptors: Translation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Task Analysis
Nils Jaekel; Markus Ritter; Julia Jaekel – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
Globally classrooms are increasingly linguistically diverse. Research often oversimplifies lived linguistic heterogeneity as binary variables: native versus non-native. Linguistic distance (LD) measures allow a fine-grained operationalization of linguistic diversity in foreign language education. This study investigated associations of cognate LDs…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 5, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Martin J. Koch; Werner Greve; Kristin Kersten – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2025
Research suggests that heterogeneous life experiences (e.g. multilingualism) might facilitate the development of mental flexibility. The current paper presents the conceptual replication of a study originally presented by Greve and colleagues [Greve, W., Koch, M., Rasche, V., and Kersten, K. (2021). Extending the Scope of the 'Cognitive Advantage'…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Multilingualism, Transfer of Training, Linguistic Theory
Cantone, Katja F. – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2022
The present study contributes to the field of bilingual and trilingual language acquisition by analysing four multilingual families. In each family, at least one parent is bilingual. Following research questions will be addressed: (A) "How relevant are the (amount of) input and the (kind of) parental language strategies for language…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Parent Influence
Sue Ollerhead; Silvia Melo-Pfeifer; Alice Chik – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Despite the global trend of growing diversity in student enrolment, most teacher education programmes remain inward-looking, oriented to national core standards and resist academic calls for internationalisation. While we agree that internationalisation at home is possible under certain circumstances, we put forward the argument that dialogic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Intercultural Communication
Pohlmann-Rother, Sanna; Lange, Sarah Désirée; Zapfe, Laura; Then, Daniel – Language and Education, 2023
Teaching multilingual learning groups is an important part of the professional activity of primary teachers in Germany, placing high demands on their occupational professionalism. The aim of this article is to analyse the effects of educational and occupational influencing factors on the beliefs of teachers regarding multilingualism as a facet of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Multilingualism
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
Geiss, Miriam; Gumbsheimer, Sonja; Lloyd-Smith, Anika; Schmid, Svenja; Kupisch, Tanja – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2022
This study brings together two previously largely independent fields of multilingual language acquisition: heritage language and third language (L3) acquisition. We investigate the production of fortis and lenis stops in semi-naturalistic speech in the three languages of 20 heritage speakers (HSs) of Italian with German as a majority language and…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, German, Italian, English (Second Language)
Alice Chik; Silvia Melo-Pfeifer – Language Awareness, 2024
Many metropolitan cities have undergone rapid demographic changes in recent years, and such changes hasten and widen linguistic diversities. Similar changes are happening in Sydney, Australia and Hamburg, Germany. These changes are most acutely felt and observed in the classrooms where multiple languages are spoken, despite a prevalent monolingual…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Cross Cultural Studies, Teacher Education Programs
Claudia Finkbeiner; Madeleine Olson; Wiebke Sophie Ost; Miri Shonfeld – Language Awareness, 2024
This paper reports on research conducted within the frame of an international online cooperation between Germany and Israel (CoGI). Diverse, multilingual student groups co-construct multilingual websites on educational initiatives. The aim is to raise prospective teachers' language awareness (LA) and cultural awareness (CA) for cooperation in…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Cultural Awareness, International Cooperation, Foreign Countries
Plöger, Simone; Barakos, Elisabeth – Ethnography and Education, 2021
In this paper, we make a theoretical and methodical case for combining Institutional Ethnography and Reflexive Grounded Theory to investigate linguistic transition processes of newly-arrived students in the German school system. Legitimised by a missing knowledge of German, the students are separated into preparatory classes in order to prepare…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Grounded Theory, Immigrants, Multilingualism