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Buckingham, Lyndsay R.; Fernández Álvarez, Miguel; Halbach, Ana – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
This article aims to contribute to the explanation of why bilingual education (CLIL) may reduce the differences in motivation and English proficiency commonly seen between students from different SES backgrounds (Shepherd and Ainsworth 2017). From a mixed-methods approach involving a questionnaire and focus group interviews, fourth year Secondary…
Descriptors: Content and Language Integrated Learning, Bilingual Education, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Zorcic, Sabina – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2019
The article summarises the results of pilot research about communicative practices among adolescents at bilingual schools in Austrian Carinthia. I present the findings by referencing Bourdieu's Theory of Practice, which I supplement when necessary with established concepts from sociolinguistics and social psychology. Bilingual schools are one of…
Descriptors: Bilingual Schools, Sociolinguistics, Social Psychology, Slavic Languages
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Hornsby, Michael – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2008
Globalisation processes, often accused of imposing uniformity the world over, also open up opportunities for minorities (including linguistic ones) to exploit a variety of spaces for self-definition and self-expression. The expansion in the use of minority languages in public signage is one consequence of this present phase of reorientation in…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Bilingual Schools, Linguistics, Language Minorities