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Pitambar Paudel – Issues in Educational Research, 2024
This study explores the multifaceted experiences and perspectives of teachers, students, and parents regarding the implementation of English medium instruction (EMI) in community schools in Nepal. Utilising a qualitative case study research design, semistructured interviews were conducted with key stakeholders to uncover the challenges and…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Language of Instruction
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Kober, Hannah Zahava – Journal of Jewish Education, 2023
In this hybrid ethnographic case study, I explore how a cadre of Israeli-American parents in Los Angeles navigate the local Hebrew education landscape to seek linguistic resources for their children. I examine how participants envision Hebrew learning and determine the roles of Jewish, Israeli-serving, and public schools in transmitting Hebrew…
Descriptors: Hebrew, Judaism, Foreign Countries, Ethnography
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Banegas, Darío Luis; Roberts, Grisel – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
This study examines the motivations of learners studying Welsh in the city of Esquel, Argentine Patagonia. Welsh is considered a heritage immigrant language in this region, given the fact that a group of Welsh settlers arrived in 1865 and established successful settlements. After a flourishing period, the process of acculturation reduced the…
Descriptors: Welsh, Language Maintenance, Immigrants, Heritage Education
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Zilal Meccawy; Najwan Sebai – Journal of Education and Learning, 2025
This qualitative study uses a semi-structured interview to investigate why Saudi learners stop learning a third language and whether these reasons are permanent or temporary. The participants were six female master's degree students who had experience learning a third language outside of formal education or informal settings. This study identifies…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Attribution Theory, Learning Processes, Social Media
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Beaudrie, Sara; Amezcua, Angélica; Loza, Sergio – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2021
As Spanish heritage courses multiply all over the United States, the need to reexamine the curriculum and pedagogical approaches that are most appropriate to meet instructional goals is becoming increasingly pressing. Although several researchers have called for developing students' critical language awareness (CLA) in the Spanish heritage…
Descriptors: Spanish, Heritage Education, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Al-Sulaiman, Raghad S. – English Language Teaching, 2020
After graduation, many Saudi EFL graduates find themselves losing their oral communicative competence, which could be attributed to the period of their English non-use. To explore such a pressing issue, the following study investigates the effect of English non-use on a surveyed sample of Saudi EFL graduates, and how such disuse correlates with…
Descriptors: Oral Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Valizadeh, Mohammadreza – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2021
This study explored the relationship between the period of Turkish EFL (English as a Foreign Language) graduates' not using English as well as their ages with the attrition of their oral communicative ability. The study also indicated the language maintenance strategies the Turkish EFL graduates pursue to prevent the attrition of their oral…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Skills, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Erdmann, Susan – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2016
Linguistics has long recognised that figurative language in the form of metaphorical expressions structures and communicates attitudes towards the ideas and concepts being expressed and that multilingual students also employ linguistic figures frequently in their writing. In this study, multilingual students use figurative language to both…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Correlation
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Sakamoto, Mitsuyo; Matsubara Morales, Leiko – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2016
This paper explores ethnolinguistic vitality among Japanese-Brazilians ("Nikkeis"). First, an 18-item questionnaire was administered to 33 individuals who attended a seminar on bilingual studies held in São Paulo. Then, two bilingual "Nikkei" teachers who participated in the questionnaire and who grew up to be bilinguals…
Descriptors: Japanese, Questionnaires, Bilingualism, Parent Participation
FLES News, 1995
Volume 8 of the newslettter for teachers of foreign language in elementary schools (FLES) features these articles: "The Teacher's Voice: Action Research in Your Classroom" (Anna Uhl Chamot); "Teacher Preparation: Using Videotapes in a Teaching Practicum" (Gisela Ernst, Kerri J. Richard); and "Hawaiian Language Immersion:…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Class Activities, Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques
Tamis, A. M.; And Others – 1993
The status of modern Greek in Australian society and education are detailed in this report. Chapters include discussion of these issues: the history of modern Greek in Australia (Greek immigration and settlement, public and private domains of use, language maintenance and shift, and language quality); the functions of modern Greek in Australia…
Descriptors: Church Related Colleges, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Education, Distance Education