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Finnish Pre-Service Teachers' Understandings of the Role of Language(s) in Learning Mathematics
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Jenni Alisaari; Leena Maria Heikkola; Raisa Harju-Autti – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2024
We examined Finnish pre-service primary school teachers' understandings of the role of language(s) in learning mathematics and how these understandings developed during a period of teaching practice. We also examined how the participants experienced the usefulness of the ready-made multilingual digital material "Binogi" and how the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Education, Language Role
Has English Been Increasingly Tested as an International Language? Evidence from 1956-2016
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Ke, I-Chung – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2019
A previous study (Ke, I. 2012. From EFL to English as an international and scientific language: analysing Taiwan's high-school English textbooks in the period 1952-2009. "Language, Culture and Curriculum," 25(2), 173-187) on the trend of English textbooks in Taiwanese high schools showed that the proportion of the lessons embedded in…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Tests, Global Approach
Conceptualising the Potential Role of L1 in CLIL
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Lin, Angel M. Y. – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2015
Content and language integrated learning (CLIL) is a rapidly growing area of both research and practice in all parts of the world, especially in Europe and Asia. As a young discipline, CLIL has a good potential of distinguishing itself from monolingual L2 immersion education models by becoming more flexible and balanced about the role of L1 in…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Course Content
A Review of Research on Content-Based Foreign/Second Language Education in US K-12 Contexts
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Tedick, Diane J.; Wesely, Pamela M. – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2015
This review of the extant research literature focuses on research about content-based language instruction (CBI) programmes in K-12 foreign/second language education in the USA. The review emphasises studies on one-way language immersion (OWI) and two-way language immersion (TWI) programmes, which are school-based and subject matter-driven. OWI…
Descriptors: Course Content, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Bidialectalism in the Classroom: The Case of African-American English
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Mordaunt, Owen G. – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2011
This article provides a brief description of the linguistic features of African-American English (AAE) and reviews the positions that have been taken up about its role in American education, ranging from those in which AAE is seen as an obstacle to the education of black children to those in which it becomes a language that is different from…
Descriptors: African American Children, Black Dialects, Models, North American English
Re-Imagining Cultural Identity: Transcultural and Translingual Communication in Virtual Third-Space Environments
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Prieto-Arranz, Jose Igor; Juan-Garau, Maria; Jacob, Karen Lesley – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2013
The rise of English as an international language (EIL) has brought to light the needs of those who speak it as an additional language. This has in turn radically reshaped the role of culture in the EIL classroom, which may now aim at developing critical transcultural awareness. By reporting on a joint initiative undertaken by three schools in two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reflection, Web Sites, Electronic Publishing
Drawing-Voice as a Methodological Tool for Understanding Teachers' Concerns in a Pilot Hmong-Vietnamese Bilingual Education Programme in Vietnam
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Lavoie, Constance; Benson, Carol – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2011
This paper illustrates how a methodological tool called "drawing-voice" can be used to demonstrate qualitatively what statistical and policy data are not able to reveal regarding the educational realities of Hmong minority communities in northern Vietnam, particularly with regard to the role of local language and culture in school. This…
Descriptors: Community Schools, Hmong People, Bilingual Education, Language of Instruction