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Perfecto, Marianne Rachel G. – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2022
This paper shall describe the bridging strategies used by Grades 3 and 4 English teachers from schools in two regions in the Philippines to help their multilingual students transition from using the mother tongue as medium of instruction in the different subject areas to using English in the English classroom. Data were obtained through…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Language of Instruction, Code Switching (Language), Recall (Psychology)
Marie Rickert – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
This study examines how language ideologies are negotiated and navigated in a linguistically diverse kindergarten group in Germany, focusing on the multilingual language practices of teachers and children. Drawing on data generated during 3months of focused linguistic ethnographic fieldwork, I analyse situations in which children and teachers…
Descriptors: Polish, German, Kindergarten, Foreign Countries
Abu Saleh Mohammad Rafi; Anne-Marie Morgan – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
The study investigated integrating a combined approach of translingualism and transculturalism in an anthropology content learning classroom of a Bangladeshi private university. Data were collected from classroom observation, a pedagogical intervention, a focus group discussion with six students, and a semi-structured interview with the class…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Language Usage, Code Switching (Language), Native Language
Soili Norro – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
The scope of the paper is to analyse Namibian mainstream primary teachers' practices in the multilingual context they work in. As teachers have a central role in implementing language policies, their practices either support or impede learning as well as learners' multilingual identities. Multilingual practices entailing rich scaffolding and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, African Languages, Second Language Learning, Multilingualism
Peyer, Elisabeth; Barras, Malgorzata; Lüthi, Gabriela – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2022
This article presents data from a videographic study that aims to explore the possibilities and limits of multilingual teaching approaches currently integrated in the curriculum and foreign language textbooks in German-speaking Switzerland. The focus of this paper is on sequences in which primary school children aged 11-12 deal with typical…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Usage
Manan, Syed Abdul; Tul-Kubra, Khadija – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2022
This study problematises the folk theories of ELT practitioners, and critically views the limits of their monolingual idealism and guilty multilingualism in the context of Pakistan. Drawing on interviews of 18 English teachers and classroom observations in a provincial capital of Pakistan, the study analyses their 'two solitudes' assumptions, in…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Multilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Iversen, Jonas Yassin – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2021
This study investigates how pre-service teachers (PSTs) negotiate an understanding of which multilingual practices are legitimate in mainstream education in Norway. Data were collected through seven focus groups with 24 PSTs participating in their first field placement. I designed three fictive vignettes about multilingual students in mainstream…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Multilingualism, Student Attitudes, Language Usage
Rajendram, Shakina – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
Translanguaging offers a new perspective on language learning by affirming and leveraging the diverse language practices that make up learners' unitary language repertoire as resources for their learning. Despite the potential pedagogical benefits of translanguaging, English-only policies are still prevalent in many language classrooms. Even when…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Language of Instruction
Duarte, Joana – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2020
In the context of multilingual education, translanguaging has been put forward as a means of including several languages in education. However, teachers often assess translanguaging-based approaches as being too vague and idealist. This study discusses data from two settings (Luxembourg and Netherlands) in which teachers working in design-based…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning, Native Language
Vaish, Viniti; Subhan, Aidil – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2015
Using translanguaging as a theoretical foundation, this paper analyses findings from a Grade 2 reading class for low achieving students, where Malay was used as a scaffold to teach English. Data come from one class in one school in Singapore and its Learning Support Programme (LSP), which is part of a larger research project on biliteracy. The LSP…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Indonesian, Elementary School Students, English (Second Language)