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Re-Negotiating Ideologies of Bilingualism on the Margins of Education
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Selleck, Charlotte – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2016
This article reports on an ethnographic study carried out in three interrelated sites: two contrasting secondary schools and a Youth-Club (the principal focus of this article), in an area of southwest Wales. This article highlights the incongruence between the language at home and the language of the school and posits that the relationship between…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Multilingualism, Ethnography, Youth Clubs
Patterns of Parental Language Use in Wales.
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Lyon, Jean – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1991
This paper reports the language use of some 400 mothers in North Wales. Factors associated with language use are examined, including cross-language partnerships, past educational medium, and situation. (25 references) (JL)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Fathers, Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction
Children in Welsh-Medium Education: Semilinguals or Innovators.
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Thomas, Peter Wynn – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1991
Addresses issue of quality of spoken Welsh of children in Welsh-medium schools. Analysis of morphology of inflected pronouns produced by these children suggests that subset of apparent errors may represent stage in process of remolding traditional examples to produce elements of code that is unique to these new speakers of Welsh and that may…
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction, Language Research
The Distribution of Younger Welsh Speakers in Anglicised Areas of South East Wales.
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Farrell, Shaun; Bellin, Wynford; Higgs, Gary; White, Sean – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1997
Net gains in the number of Welsh speakers as a result of education in South East Wales are examined to see if there is any basis for connecting them with disadvantage to education in English-medium schools. (Author/JL)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Census Figures, Educationally Disadvantaged, English
The Effect of Total L2 Immersion Education on Concept Development.
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Dodson, C. J.; Thomas, Sara E. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1988
Presents a longitudinal examination of the effects of certain types of schooling (bilingual, immersion, mixed-language) on the concept development of monolingual, developing bilingual, or competent bilingual children in Wales. Results indicated that immersion programs temporarily retarded concept development of second language beginners.…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Concept Formation, English, Foreign Countries
Use of the Mother Tongue in Second Language Classrooms: An Experimental Investigation of Effects on the Attitudes and Writing Performance of Bilingual UK Schoolchildren.
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Garrett, Peter; And Others – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1994
A study of mother tongue (MT) use in second-language classrooms was conducted in United Kingdom primary schools in two bilingual settings: North Wales (Welsh/English) and Lancashire (Mirpur Punjabi/English). Prewriting activities were carried out with comparable pairs of classes (MT or English, second language). Although attitudes in the MT groups…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Elementary Education, English (Second Language)