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Aigul Syzdykbayeva; Kulpynay Duisenbay; Guliya Alikhankyzy; Ulzharkyn Abdigapbarova – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2025
There has been a significant growth in the field of Chinese language education, which has necessitated to examine the current state of key research contributions of the Chinese language in teaching methodologies, learning processes, and textbook development. This bibliometric study maps literature on Chinese language teaching, learning, and…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Bibliometrics
Sakina M. Alaoui – Discover Education, 2025
This paper examines the linguistic situation in Morocco, with a particular focus on Arabic. The Ministry of Education's approval of a grade two Arabic textbook that employs dialectal Arabic (Darija) words instead of Standard Arabic, which is the usual writing mode, created fierce controversy in the social and political scene between the defenders…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Cultural Influences, Dialects, Textbooks
McLachlan, Kathryn; Essien, Anthony A. – Pythagoras, 2022
This article presents a systematic review of research on language and multilingualism in mathematics education published in the South African journal Pythagoras from 1994 to 2021. This time frame was chosen as the year 1994 marked the acknowledgement of 11 official languages in the new democratic South Africa (including 9 indigenous languages),…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Multilingualism, Mathematics Education, Periodicals
Khan, Muhammad Asim; Zaki, Sajida – SAGE Open, 2022
Language education policies contain discourses that have language ideologies embedded within them. This study explores the language ideologies in official language education policy documents of Pakistan from 2000 to 2020. Using Corpus Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis techniques, a 1.28 million-word-corpus was generated from 32 policy documents…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Guerrero-Nieto, Carmen Helena; Quintero-Polo, Álvaro Hernán – HOW, 2021
This article presents our narration of the emergence and development of a research area about the teaching and learning of the English language in Colombia and the creation of a research group named Critical Studies of Colombian Education Policies. The narration includes a description of the bilingual education policy in Colombia and a literature…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, English (Second Language)
Ma, Xiuli; Gong, Yang; Gao, Xuesong; Xiang, Yiqing – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
This paper reports the results of a review of research articles on the teaching of Chinese as a second or foreign language published in four leading mainland Chinese journals during the years 2005-2015. The review found that Chinese language researchers are exploring a wide array of issues including language policy and planning, language learning…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Instruction, Literature Reviews, Journal Articles
Normand-Marconnet, Nadine – Language and Education, 2013
Despite a long historical French presence in Vietnam, only 0.5% of Vietnamese people speak French today. As in other countries of South East Asia, language instruction in Vietnam has mainly focused on English for several decades. This paper provides an overview of a project called "French bilingual classes". The main aim of the study is…
Descriptors: French, Bilingual Education, Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning
Ouane, Adama, Ed.; Glanz, Christine, Ed. – UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (NJ1), 2011
The central concern of this volume is how to provide quality education to African children, adolescents and adults through the best-suited media and curricular content in order to achieve social cohesion, inclusion and sustainable development. For at least five decades, since the 1953 UNESCO Report "The Use of Vernacular Languages in…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Teaching Methods, African Languages, Bilingual Education
Wenfeng, Wang; Gao, Xuesong – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2008
This paper reviews the research output on English language education in China published in 24 international journals from 2001 to 2006 and delineates the nature of this corpus of research. The review covers research in the following areas: the linguistic situations and culture of learning in China in relation to English language education,…
Descriptors: Research Needs, Language Planning, Asian Culture, Multilingualism

Baker, Colin – Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 2003
Reviews the multidimensional research on bilingual education, covering contexts where bilingual children are in transitional classrooms as well as schools where curriculum content is experienced in two (or more) languages. Suggests that for bilingual education to play its part in language reversal, it needs to show its relative effectiveness, both…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Language Maintenance, Language Planning

Sheridan, E. Marcia – 1980
This paper examines the efforts of the Chinese Communist government since 1949 to bring literacy to the masses through its language reform policies. The policies discussed include the establishment of a common dialect, simplification of Chinese characters, and the development of a Chinese phonetic alphabet. In addition, the paper discusses methods…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Government Role, Language Planning, Linguistics
Cazden, Courtney B. – 1991
Metalinguistic awareness is discussed in terms of the new national curriculum in English language education in Great Britain. A chronology is presented of events surrounding national curriculum legislation that prompted controversy in Britain concerning the teaching of the English language. One result of this legislation has been the creation of…
Descriptors: British National Curriculum, Case Studies, Child Language, Curriculum
Anderson, Helena H.; Rhodes, Nancy C. – 1983
A study of elementary school foreign language programs in eight states yielded information about the status and design of language immersion, revitalized foreign language in the elementary schools (FLES), and foreign language experience (FLEX) programs. Immersion programs consist of the usual curriculum content presented entirely in a second…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Communication Skills, Cultural Awareness, Elementary Education