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Voluntary Work, Transnational Mobility and Language Learning in a Social Movement
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Garrido, Maria Rosa – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2018
In the current neoliberal era, work is increasingly connected to transnational relations that involve people crossing linguistic and national borders. Based on a multi-sited ethnography, this article explores a transnational social movement called Emmaus where voluntary work, geographical mobility, and language learning intersect. I analyse the…
Descriptors: Volunteers, Mobility, Ethnography, Second Language Learning
The Invisibility of "Other Languages" in an Early Years Language Program in England: An Examination of Monolingual Discourses and Ways to Forge Culturally Inclusive Practice
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Rojas-Bustos, Kyara – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2020
This article offers a critical examination of language ideological constructions, advocating for language practices that favor culturally and contextually appropriate practice. Although discourses on multicultural inclusive practice in England are not new, the position of minoritized languages in early years education is still absent and highly…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Language Attitudes, Culturally Relevant Education, Cultural Pluralism
Communications Skills Project: What Really Went Wrong.
Onukaogu, C. E.; Olowu, C. O. – 1994
A study examined the genesis or formation and operations of the Communication Skills Project (COMSKIP), whose primary aim was to revitalize the teaching and learning in the Use of English (UOE) curriculum in Nigeria. In the process of accessing the achievements of COMSKIP, there was limited synchronicity between the people who conceived of the…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Curriculum Development, English Curriculum, Foreign Countries