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Riah Werner – English Teaching Forum, 2025
Storytelling passes down traditions and values while preserving languages and serving as a natural site for linguistic innovation and creativity. This article describes an approach to creating multilingual, multimodal stories that were developed for an after-school club at a rural Tanzanian secondary school. Club members told stories, wrote…
Descriptors: Clubs, Self Concept, Student Characteristics, English (Second Language)
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Araba A. Z. Osei-Tutu – Research in the Teaching of English, 2024
African immigrants in the US and across the globe are confronted with issues of language and culture retention, resistance to the loss of the same, and reconstruction of their identities while navigating the sociocultural and sociopolitical contexts of the host nations. The experiences of one such family are shared through the African Oral…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Story Telling, English Teachers, Language Arts
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Henne-Ochoa, Richard – Journal for the Study of Education and Development, 2022
This article promotes a grounded approach to Indigenous language revitalization that honours Indigenous peoples' desire to restore Indigenous language use in their daily lives. The approach offers a way of revitalizing Indigenous languages by reintegrating them into Indigenous social life and an Indigenous way of learning, thus also sustaining and…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Maintenance, Indigenous Populations, Informal Education
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Wu, Manfred Man-fat – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2019
Second language research has traditionally been characterized by the cognitive perspective which focuses on how the individual processes language. There has been an emerging trend over the past few decades on taking into consideration the social influences on second language learning based on diverse theoretical frameworks. Research on second…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Educational Philosophy, Reading Comprehension, Language Processing
Chew, Kari A. B.; Tennell, Courtney – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2023
As Indigenous scholars committed to Indigenous education in Oklahoma, we use a decolonizing approach to consider how the 39 Indigenous Nations in Oklahoma assert educational sovereignty to sustain Indigenous high school students' linguistic and cultural identities. Seeking to promote education models that sustain and revitalize Indigenous…
Descriptors: Public Schools, American Indian Languages, High School Students, American Indian Culture
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Patricia Fjellgren; Leena Huss – International Journal of Human Rights Education, 2019
Our paper focuses on new ways to address silence and feelings of sadness surrounding language and cultural loss in Indigenous contexts, sometimes resulting in deep inter-generational trauma. As a consequence of two Council of Europe conventions ratified by Sweden, Indigenous and minority language maintenance and revitalization was included in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Language Maintenance, Languages
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Baquedano-López, Patricia – Theory Into Practice, 2021
In this article I introduce a framework that centers indigenous educational sovereignty in university-school partnerships. Developed from collaborative work with Indigenous Maya families who are migrants from Yucatan, Mexico, the framework operates from an understanding that Indigenous parents have knowledge that is important for their children to…
Descriptors: Immigrants, American Indian Students, College School Cooperation, Foreign Countries
Angelo, Denise; Disbray, Samantha; Singer, Ruth; O'Shannessy, Carmel; Simpson, Jane; Smith, Hilary; Meek, Barbra; Wigglesworth, Gillian – OECD Publishing, 2022
Indigenous peoples have rightful aspirations for their languages and cultures, supported under international conventions, jurisdictional treaties, laws, policies and enquiry recommendations. Additionally, the inclusion of Indigenous languages in education can impact positively on Indigenous students' learning, engagement, identity and well-being,…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Academic Achievement, Educational Experience, Outcomes of Education
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Carjuzaa, Jioanna – Cogent Education, 2017
Many educators have sung the praises of Indian Education for All, Montana's constitutional mandate, and heard the successes of Montana's Indigenous language revitalization efforts which reverberate around the globe. Teaching Indigenous languages is especially, challenging since there are limited numbers of fluent speakers and scarce resources…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, American Indian Languages, Language Maintenance, Educational Policy
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Pu, Chang – Kappa Delta Pi Record, 2012
English literacy skills are important in order to participate fully in public life; however, the heritage-based literacy skills learned outside of the classroom also are critical in the P-12 classroom. School teachers are important advocates for immigrant students--to preserve their first language and heritage, to integrate knowledge of their two…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Literacy, Self Esteem, Community Programs
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Szilagyi, Janka; Giambo, Debra; Szecsi, Tunde – Childhood Education, 2013
Is it an asset or a burden to be bilingual? Although bilingualism is appreciated by many people worldwide, immigrant families often struggle with the maintenance of their heritage language (HL) and culture. In the United States. For example, the HL in most families is completely lost within three generations (Fishman, 1991). The loss of a child's…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Self Concept, Immigrants, Language Maintenance
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Irby, Beverly J.; Tong, Fuhui; Lara-Alecio, Rafael – Multicultural Perspectives, 2011
In this article the authors postulate a mutual symbiosis between multicultural and inclusive bi-lingual education. Combining bi-lingual and multicultural education to create a symbiotic relationship can stimulate reform in schools and can promote inclusive educational systems, thereby keeping native languages and cultures alive for minority…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Minority Groups, Bilingual Education, Inclusion
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Giri, Ram Ashish – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2010
Nepali, the official language of administration of Nepal, has been privileged through systematic political manoeuvres throughout its history. English also enjoys special status and privileges, and despite the fact that it is officially only a "foreign" language, in practice it is one of the most dominant languages in educational and…
Descriptors: Official Languages, Foreign Countries, Indo European Languages, Language Dominance
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Goulah, Jason – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2010
Environmental refugees are increasing worldwide. Consequently, a theoretical framework is necessary for conceptualizing them in education. This article breaks new ground by providing such a framework in education, in general, and bilingual-bicultural education, in particular. The framework is grounded in O'Sullivan's (1999, 2002) transformative…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Multicultural Education, Bilingual Education, Transformative Learning
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Charles, Walkie – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2009
The growing distance between heritage languages and youth has become a constant point of discourse between Elders in Indigenous communities and those who could listen. Since Western contact, the pursuit for a "better life" through formal schooling has institutionalized Indigenous youth, separating them from their homelands and broadening…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Residential Schools, American Indian Languages, Educational Attainment
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