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Gurney, Laura; Demuro, Eugenia – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2022
This paper traces recent theorisation stemming from the multilingual turn and brings this into dialogue with assemblage thinking, discussing the critical potential of bringing these perspectives together to explore what language is and how it is understood. The argument maps salient features of the multilingual turn which have extended the fields…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Native Language, Language Usage
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Sohn, Bong-gi; dos Santos, Pedro; Lin, Angel M. Y. – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2022
Arising in Europe in the early 1990s, content and language integrated learning (CLIL) has become a popular educational approach. CLIL involves a dual focus on content and language learning with an additional language used as the medium of instruction. Although CLIL has received much attention and spread widely around the world, there is limited…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning
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Magnusson, Petra; Godhe, Anna-Lena – Designs for Learning, 2019
The aim of this article is to discuss how a multimodal approach to meaning-making can contribute to language education and how multimodal meaning-making is supported in the Swedish curricula. Considering the rapid digitalization of contemporary communication, the aim and content of language education has been challenged. The article describes…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Multimedia Materials, Semiotics, Swedish
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Kultti, Anne – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
The present article takes on the contemporary challenge of equalizing early childhood education (ECE). Research has particularly highlighted this in relation to children having the majority language as an additional language during the early years. The purpose here is to create knowledge regarding how multilingual interaction, teaching, and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Play, Early Childhood Education, Second Language Learning
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Hillman, Sara – Language Learning Journal, 2023
Recent research on stakeholders' emotions in English-medium instruction (EMI) higher education settings has demonstrated the importance of engaging students with their emotions about the impact of EMI on their lives. This article presents a pedagogical intervention bridging emotions, creativity, and translingual pedagogy with EMI students in…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Language of Instruction, Arabic, Language Attitudes
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Wei, Li; García, Ofelia – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2022
Translanguaging has opened up spaces to recognize the dynamic multilingualism of students in classrooms taught in dominant languages, and problematized concepts such as 'additive bilingualism'. This article aims to further explore two issues that remain little understood. First, translanguaging is often seen as simply the acknowledgement or use of…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Native Language, Second Language Learning, Multilingualism
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Lin, Angel M. Y. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2019
Translanguaging theories emphasize a fluid, dynamic view of language and differ from code-switching/mixing theories by de-centring the analytic focus from the language(s) being used in the interaction to the speakers who are making meaning and constructing original and complex discursive practices. Trans-semiotizing theories further broaden the…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Semiotics, Teaching Methods, Course Content
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Ahmed, Anwar; Morgan, Brian – Language Learning Journal, 2021
Postmemory, the narrativised intergenerational transfer of often traumatic experiences, is a crucial component of multilingual identity negotiation. In this article, we focus specifically on the curricular interactions and personal and collective aspirations of multilingual students who use English for academic purposes. We situate our discussions…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Beaupoil-Hourdel, Pauline – Research-publishing.net, 2020
In teacher training curricula, books are presented as an ideal material for building and enriching young children's language. Yet, the routine of reading at home with children is hardly ever mentioned. In this chapter, the author proposes analyses of story-reading activities from a usage-based and first language acquisition perspective. The goal…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Child Language