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Kebir Colmenero; David Lasagabaster – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The English Language Teaching (ELT) industry has long been ruled by native-speaker norms. Despite the fact that non-native speaking teachers (NNSTs) outnumber native speaking teachers (NSTs), the formers' linguistic abilities are often perceived as not fully fledged by both students and NNSTs themselves. Many studies have examined the NST vs. NNST…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Native Speakers
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Corinne E. Barrett DeWiele; Jason D. Edgerton – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This paper examines the persistent, growing popularity of Canadian French immersion (FI) programmes. Critics charge that FI programmes are elitist, diverting already limited resources from other areas of the education system. We begin with a brief overview of the benefits of FI in Canada and enrolment trends. Next, sources of FI-related inequality…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immersion Programs, Second Language Instruction, French
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Codó, Eva – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
In the early twenty-first century Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) emerged as a distinctively European pedagogy for raising additional language competence. Although CLIL scholarship has been abundant and has taken many different directions, there is a dearth of ethnographic research to shed light on the situated ambivalences of CLIL…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Content and Language Integrated Learning, Educational Policy, Romance Languages
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Daugaard, Line Møller – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
This article focuses on mother tongue teaching in Arabic, Dari, Pashto and Somali as it is practised in a linguistically diverse primary school in Denmark. The article draws on a linguistic ethnography of language teaching across the curriculum, and the analysis focuses on three mother tongue teachers. Drawing on classroom observations and…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Native Language Instruction, Arabic, Indo European Languages
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King, Kendall A. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2016
The study of what has come to be known as family language policy has evolved and expanded significantly over the last hundred years, from its early beginnings in the diary studies of Ronjat and Leopold, to the interdisciplinary and transnational research found in this thematic issue of the "Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Multilingualism, Global Approach, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Antonini, Rachele – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2016
This paper will present the findings of a wide-scale research aimed at studying the phenomenon of Child Language Brokering (henceforth CLB) in Italy. After providing a description of recent immigration patterns and the provision of language services in Italy, and an overview of current research in this field, this study will discuss narrative data…
Descriptors: Child Language, Translation, Foreign Countries, Immigration
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Low, Hui Min; Nicholas, Howard; Wales, Roger – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2010
This paper reports the findings of a survey of 100 mothers of Chinese children aged between 6 and 36 months from middle to upper-middle socio-economic backgrounds in Penang, Malaysia. The findings include the language backgrounds of these mothers, their contextual uses of multiple languages and their language choices with their children. Through…
Descriptors: Mothers, Multilingualism, Foreign Countries, Profiles
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Gogonas, Nikos – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2009
Albanian immigration to Greece started in the beginning of the 1990s and the second generation of Albanian immigrants is a recent phenomenon. This paper presents the findings of research investigating language maintenance/shift among second generation Albanian immigrants in Athens using as main informants adolescents of Albanian origin.…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Indo European Languages
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Forlot, Gilles – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2009
Based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Toronto, Ontario, this article examines the schooling behaviour of parents who have migrated from France to Canada. The population under study, engaged in a "northern" kind of migration, generally benefits from an education acquired in the pre-migration period and from the legitimacy of…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Ideology, Foreign Countries, Migration
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Pavlenko, Aneta – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2004
The goal of this paper is to discuss the role of emotion-related factors in language choice in bi- and multilingual families. Most of the time, factors other than emotions govern language choice and use in such families, among them language dominance, social context and linguistic competence of the interlocutors. However, quantitative and…
Descriptors: Linguistic Competence, Language Dominance, Multilingualism, Social Environment