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Vanilla Sauce and Songs: Literacies in a Heritage Language School
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Tigert, Johanna M. – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2020
To educate their diverse learners in a culturally and linguistically responsive way, teachers must recognise that students come to school with rich literacies learned in their homes and communities. To shed light on one particular linguistic group's engagement with literacies in the context of community, the current study examines a Finnish…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Culturally Relevant Education, Language of Instruction, Finno Ugric Languages
English-Only Language-in-Education Policy in Multilingual Classrooms in Ghana
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Opoku-Amankwa, Kwasi – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2009
This paper, based on the findings of a qualitative study, discusses the influence of Ghana's recently introduced English-only language-in-education policy on pupils' classroom communicative practices and learning generally. It highlights how the use of English--an unfamiliar language--creates anxiety among students and stalls effective classroom…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Language of Instruction, Multilingualism, Foreign Countries
Bilingual Learning for Second and Third Generation Children
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Kenner, Charmian; Gregory, Eve; Ruby, Mahera; Al-Azami, Salman – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2008
Throughout the English-speaking world, children from bilingual backgrounds are being educated in mainstream classrooms where they have little or no opportunity to use their mother tongue. Second and third generation children, in particular, are assumed to be learning sufficiently through English only. This study investigated how British…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Action Research, Bilingualism, Bilingual Education
Grassroots Suggestions for Linking Native-Language Learning, Native American Studies, and Mainstream Education in Reservation Schools with Mixed Indian and White Student Populations
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Ngai, Phyllis Bo-yuen – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2006
Indigenous-language education is critical in the rural and small-town communities with mixed native and non-native populations that constitute the headwaters of many dying tongues. Emerging from interviews conducted in 2002 and 2003 on the Flathead Indian Reservation with 89 study participants holding diverse perspectives is the need for a…
Descriptors: Interviews, Multicultural Education, American Indians, White Students
Attitudes of Student Teachers Towards Teaching in Mother Tongue in Nigerian Primary Schools: Implications for Planning
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Ejieh, Michael U. C. – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2004
Following the results of the Ife Six-Year Primary Project designed to use an indigenous Nigerian language as a medium of instruction in primary schools, some suggestions have been made to introduce it in all Nigerian primary schools. This study investigates the attitudes of student teachers towards mother-tongue instruction. Data for the study…
Descriptors: Negative Attitudes, Student Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, Language of Instruction
In Search of the Lost Tongue: Prospects for Mother Tongue Education in Zambia.
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Banda, Felix – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 1996
Discusses problems associated with the implementation of mother tongue education in Zambia. Focus is on the sociolinguistic situation, language policy after independence, sociolinguistic implications, language use in different domains, language use and ethnic identity in Zambia, Kenya, and Tanzania, prospects for mother tongue education; bilingual…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Diachronic Linguistics, English (Second Language), Ethnic Groups