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Sandra Preusler; Johanna Fleckenstein; Steffen Zitzmann; Jürgen Baumert; Jens Möller – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
Multilingualism is often associated with advantages for acquiring additional languages. Theoretical approaches explain these advantages by assuming a Common Underlying Proficiency or a Metalinguistic Awareness. At the State Europe School in Berlin, students from different language backgrounds receive instruction in German and a partner language…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Bilingual Education, German, English (Second Language)
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Costa Waetzold, Juliane; Melo-Pfeifer, Sílvia – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
In the context of German linguistic policies, Heritage Language (HL) education ranges from formal and informal to non-formal offers. Families with migratory backgrounds seeking acquisition and maintenance of the HL frequently resort to educational or maintenance opportunities that are not institutionalized. In the region of Bavaria (Germany), the…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Portuguese, German, Parent Child Relationship
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Aleksic, Gabrijela; García, Ofelia – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
Based on an analysis of the video recording and transcript of one lesson chosen by preschool teachers in Luxembourg as an example of translanguaging pedagogy, this article shows the teachers' limited understandings of translanguaging. As a result of a new 2017 multilingual education policy for early childhood, the first author designed a…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Preschool Teachers, Preschool Children, Code Switching (Language)
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Fortes, Laura – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2017
This paper discusses the social and political implications of the emergence of Portuguese-English bilingual education discourse in Brazil, which has been widely disseminated since the 1990s. Initially, a discursive analysis of prestige bilingualism concepts will be presented. Second, the issue of language policies will be addressed through the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Portuguese, Bilingual Education, Language of Instruction