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Avinash Pandey; Renuka Ozarkar – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2025
This article focuses on the ever-increasing stress on multilingual education (MLE) in policy documents, especially its pairing with mother tongues in education (MTE). This focus brings into relief the relationship between MTE, the preservation of linguistic diversity and social democracy. We argue that the outcome of this relationship crucially…
Descriptors: Aesthetics, Language Usage, Native Language, Multilingualism
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Chen, Emma – LEARNing Landscapes, 2021
The maintenance of heritage language is essential to immigrant children's linguistic, cultural, and social development. While there is a large body of literature on heritage language, how heritage language is practiced at home remains largely unknown. Engaging in an autobiographical narrative inquiry, I tell and retell stories of our pedagogical…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Maintenance, Immigrants, Foreign Countries
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Khair Abbas, Randa – Journal for Multicultural Education, 2023
Purpose: Conferences, while central to academic endeavors, are an understudied research site. This purpose of this study is to describe the experience of an Arab Israeli teachers' college in hosting a large international academic conference on multiculturalism, conducted entirely in English. Most of the academic staff and all of the students are…
Descriptors: Arabs, Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Colleges
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Akhil Kumar Singh – Policy Futures in Education, 2025
The National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 marks a significant shift in India's educational framework, particularly with its emphasis on multilingual education (MLE) and mother tongue-based instruction (MTI). Recognizing India's vast linguistic diversity, the policy advocates for teaching in the mother tongue or local language until at least Grade…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Native Language, Educational Policy
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Sacré, Hari Prasad Adhikari; Cawayu, Atamhi; Clemente-Martínez, Chandra Kala – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2023
This theoretical article reflects on a recent development in adult literacy studies: transnational adoptees relearning their heritage languages. Literacy and adoption scholars have studied the replacement of the heritage language with a second language and reported it as a permanent loss. Returning to the country of origin, return adoptees…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adoption, Heritage Education, Second Language Learning
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Olivier Le Guen; Rossy Kinil Canche; Merli Collí Hau; Geli Collí Collí – Sign Language Studies, 2023
This article analyzes the construction of sign names in an emerging sign language from Mexico, the Yucatec Maya Sign Language (YMSL). Data comes from elicited interviews as well as natural interactions collected by the authors and signers from two different villages, Chicán and Nohkop. Despite YMSL being an isolate language, sign name construction…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Mayan Languages, Foreign Countries, Self Concept
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Anuschka van ’t Hooft; José Luis González Compeán – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2024
Young urban migrants can be valuable actors in projects that aim to document and revitalize their Indigenous languages, especially when these efforts involve new technologies. Based on data from a Huastec (Tének) language documentation project in Mexico, this article describes the digital interactions of young migrants in the documentation and…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Urban Areas, Native Language, Language Maintenance
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Morve, Roshan K.; Maurya, Suresh Chandra – Journal of Practical Studies in Education, 2022
This paper analyses the issues and challenges of linguistically diverse English Language Teaching (ELT) classrooms in India. In India, the English language is not the first language; the majority of them speak Hindi or their state languages. Due to this concern, numerous questions are arising for teachers, such as (a) How many languages and which…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Student Diversity
Daniel Roy Pearce – Multilingual Matters, 2024
This book explores alternative approaches to foreign language education in a context which is traditionally dominated by English-only approaches, and widely viewed as highly monolingual. It examines the grassroots classroom practices of teachers and their assistants involved in plurilingual education in the first longitudinal research of its type…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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John E. Booth – rEFLections, 2024
That a certain class of verb commonly known as 'statives' is undergoing change in terms of the way in which certain verbs of this type are being used in everyday speech is nothing new to the field of linguistics. Much has been written about it, and the author of this paper alone has been preoccupied with the subject for many years now. However,…
Descriptors: Verbs, Language Usage, Popular Culture, Foreign Countries
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Mariya Hassan – Current Issues in Comparative Education, 2024
This paper explores the relationship between language education and identity realization and the consequences of choosing either an Indigenous or a colonial language education approach. The focus is on the African postcolonial context; however, the arguments are also substantiated by examples from other parts of the world. I argue for a…
Descriptors: Correlation, Decolonization, Self Concept, Native Language
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Uma Pradhan; Joyeeta Dey – Learning, Media and Technology, 2025
This paper examines how language-based artificial intelligence is envisaged to imagine new futures for indigenous languages. It draws on the visions, programmes, and plans of six language initiatives that are developing language technology for often-marginalised indigenous, tribal, and minority (ITM) languages, such as Gondi, Maithili, Rajasthani…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Software, Indigenous Populations, Language Minorities
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Rebecca Adami; Liz Adams Lyngbäck – Human Rights Education Review, 2024
In this paper we conduct a poststructural discourse analysis inspired by Carol Bacchi's 'What's the problem represented to be?' (WRP) approach. We explore what kinds of problems are formulated in preschool educational policy on multilingualism, and what underlying assumptions underlie the dominant discourse on language proficiency in Sweden.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Preschool Education, Educational Policy
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Czepil, Mariya; Karpenko, Oresta – History of Education, 2022
This article considers the theoretical principles of children and students' national awareness formation in the Ukrainian pedagogy of Galicia in the period 1848-1918. It defines two stages in this process: ethno-linguistic (1848-1904) and ethno-national (1905-1918). The later nineteenth century was marked by an emphasis on patriotism, the national…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Nationalism, Educational History, Patriotism
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Alstad, Gunhild Tomter; Sopanen, Pauliina – Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2021
This article investigates the language orientations in education policy documents for early childhood education and care (ECEC) in Finland and Norway. Finland, an officially bilingual country, and Norway, a predominantly monolingual country, share similar views on ECEC. However, the ECEC field in both countries has undergone major changes in…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Policy, Child Care, Cross Cultural Studies
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