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Direct linkPodmore, Valerie N.; Hedges, Helen; Keegan, Peter J.; Harvey, Nola – Teaching and Learning Research Initiative, 2015
In this report the authors signal the plurilingual nature of children's and teachers' learning and teaching experiences. Plurilingualism introduces a dynamic view of bilingualism in educational settings and refers to an individual's ability to draw upon her/his total language resources for learning and teaching (Cummins & Early, 2011; Garcia…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Multilingualism, Foreign Countries
Download full textHanemann, Ulrike, Ed.; Scarpino, Cassandra, Ed. – UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2016
This compilation includes programmes which promote language and culture as resources and see them as an added value rather than a challenge for literacy teaching and learning. It also includes programmes designed to support migrants and refugees by equipping them for integration into mainstream society while strengthening their literacy skills in…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Literacy Education, Multicultural Education, Immigrants
Trinick, Tony; May, Stephen – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2013
Over the last 25 years, there has been significant modernisation and elaboration of the Maori language mathematics lexicon and register to support the teaching of (Western) mathematics as a component of Maori-medium schooling. These developments are situated within the wider Maori language revitalisation movement in Aotearoa/New Zealand, of which…
Descriptors: Malayo Polynesian Languages, Pacific Islanders, Ethnic Groups, Mathematics Instruction
Stewart, Georgina – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2011
This second research paper on science education in Maori-medium school contexts complements an earlier article published in this journal (Stewart, 2005). Science and science education are related domains in society and in state schooling in which there have always been particularly large discrepancies in participation and achievement by Maori. In…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Malayo Polynesian Languages, Science Education, National Curriculum
Hornberger, Nancy H., Ed. – Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
This volume offers a close look at four cases of indigenous language revitalization: Maori in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Sami in Scandinavia, Hnahno in Mexico and Quechua and other indigenous languages in Latin America. Essays by experts from each case are in turn discussed in international perspective by four counterpart experts. This book is divided…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Multicultural Education, Foreign Countries, Bilingualism
Amituanai-Toloa, Meaola; McNaughton, Stuart; Kuin Lai, Mei – Online Submission, 2009
This paper examines language development of Samoan students in bilingual contexts in Aotearoa, New Zealand. In the absence of valid and standardized assessments tools in Samoan, one was designed to test reading comprehension and oral language development for Samoan students using common narratives as a base. For reading comprehension, the tool…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Listening Comprehension, Bilingual Students, Bilingual Education
Peer reviewedSpolsky, Bernard – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1989
Describes several preschool, elementary, and high school Maori immersion and bilingual programs in New Zealand, focusing on how the programs define and establish Maori space in the schools, local and tribal concerns, and the basis for the revitalization of the language. (29 references) (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Immersion Programs
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)
