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Clarisse Halpern; Joseph Trunfio; Hasan Aydin – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Demographic changes continue to challenge educators across the United States. Currently, five million English language learners (ELL) attend the country's public schools, and immigrant populations are expected to increase by 85% by 2060. Despite teacher education programmes offering English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) courses to prepare…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Student Attitudes, Immigrants
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Lisa M. Domke; Laura A. May; Melody Kung; Lauren Coleman; Michael Vo; Gary E. Bingham – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Having a dual focus on teaching content information and language is important in language-learning contexts and is a defining feature of dual language bilingual education (DLBE). However, systematically teaching both language and content is challenging for DLBE teachers. This exploratory mixed methods study of nine Spanish-English bilingual Latinx…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Teacher Education Programs, Spanish, English (Second Language)
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Iversen, Jonas Yassin – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
Drawing on recent developments within sociolinguistics, the objective of the current article is to explore how six pre-service teachers (PSTs) discursively positioned themselves and 'the multilingual' across two narrating events focused on their lived experience of language. The narrating events were focus groups with other PSTs (N = 24) and the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Personal Narratives, Multilingualism
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Eleftheria Christou; Nathan Thomas; Jim McKinley – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The global expansion of English has raised a call for English-language teachers around the world to frame English as an international language (EIL). This is especially true in rapidly developing contexts such as China, where teachers are expected to prepare learners to engage effectively in intercultural interactions. As such, the present study…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Student Attitudes, English (Second Language)
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Ada Bier; David Lasagabaster – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Since educators play a decisive role in the formation of language attitudes, this study analyses perceived competence, habits of language use and attitudes towards three languages in contact harboured by prospective teachers. Our research replicates a 20-year-old study and is comparative, as it parallels two European regions: the Basque Autonomous…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Language Attitudes
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Tabitha Kidwell; Hanung Triyoko – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Regular and sustained contact with speakers of other languages might offer members of multilingual societies opportunities to develop cultural awareness through interactions with diverse individuals. This study examines how the language awareness of individuals in a highly multilingual setting can act as a resource to support their learning about…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Multilingualism, Cultural Awareness, Second Language Learning
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Jiaye Wu; Nicola McLelland; Sarah Dauncey – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Despite growing attention paid to the language ideologies of teachers as actors in bilingualism or multilingualism studies, little research has examined whether and how power dynamics between majority and minority languages play a role in the promulgation of a majority language to ethnic minority learners of that majority language. This paper…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Mandarin Chinese, Standard Spoken Usage, Language Attitudes
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Tjaša Dražnik; Júlia Llompart-Esbert; Mari Bergroth – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This study examined student teachers' beliefs about teaching multilingual classrooms across three European contexts; Slovenia, Spain (Catalonia), and Finland. Research shows that teachers' confidence in handling linguistically diverse classrooms is lacking. Linguistically sensitive teaching (LST) was used as a lens to explore different expressions…
Descriptors: Student Teacher Attitudes, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Cross Cultural Studies
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Zhou, Wenying; Li, Guofang – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
Based on video recordings of five pre-k to grade 4 Chinese dual-language bilingual education (DLBE) teachers' classroom instruction, this article examines the Chinese DLBE teachers' target and first language use and pedagogical moves during their processes of learning to teach in immersion schools in the US. Conversational analyses of classroom…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Rafiee, Marzieh; Abbasian-Naghneh, Salman – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2019
Since its introduction to the field of modern language instruction, willingness to communicate (WTC) attracted much attention from researchers and practitioners. Since then, a large and growing body of literature has investigated the factors influencing language learners' WTC. Among the factors identified, individual factors were found to have…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Fluency
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Block, David; Gray, John – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2016
The marketization of education in countries like the UK may be seen as part and parcel of the rise of neoliberalism as the dominant shaper of policy and practice in many societies from the late twentieth century onwards. This paper explores how marketization has impacted on two initial teacher preparation programmes and focuses on the Cambridge…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Marketing