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Hamza R'boul; Hassan Belhiah; Anissa Elhaffari – Language and Education, 2024
The mainstream colonial lenses that have been used to understand multilingualism in the peripheries may not account for the realities of Southern multilingualisms. This article takes up these epistemic challenges in navigating EMI through alternative lenses, aiming to complexify the discussion of EMI among young individuals who are engaged in…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Multilingualism, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Jim McKinley; Kari Sahan; Sihan Zhou; Heath Rose – Language and Education, 2024
In the field of English medium instruction (EMI), multilingual research approaches are crucial to carrying out effective and ethically responsible research, because EMI policies and practices are inherently multilingual. This paper is a partial replication study that adopts a 'researching multilingually' analytical framework to interrogate the…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Multilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer – Language and Education, 2024
This paper reports on a research project which asked scholars to speak about their multilingual and collaborative academic practices. This case study sheds light on the complex and multilayered linguistic choices made by multilingual scholars to comply with the diverse requirements of a multilingual academic life, namely the adoption of EMI…
Descriptors: College Faculty, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Teacher Attitudes
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Ann E. Roemer – Language and Education, 2024
This research, conducted at a major university in Tanzania, investigated the personal experiences of multilingual students vis-à-vis the government's language policy requiring Swahili as the language of instruction (LoI) at the primary level and English at the secondary level. The participants, who spoke 25 different languages as their L1, were…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, African Languages, Language of Instruction, Language Attitudes
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Merve Bozbiyik; Tom Morton – Language and Education, 2024
The increasing impact of internationalisation in higher education worldwide has led to the growing use of English as a medium of instruction (EMI). Much research on this phenomenon has focused on stakeholders' viewpoints, but there is increasing interest in investigating interaction in EMI classrooms. One interactional practice which is relatively…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language of Instruction, Universities
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Reddick, Celia; Chopra, Vidur – Language and Education, 2023
Currently 26 million people live as refugees, 40% of whom are school-aged. As global policy shifts to include refugee children and young people in education systems in settings of exile, language-in-education emerges as an under-explored challenge for refugee learners and the education systems they join. Refugee young people face uncertain…
Descriptors: Refugees, Language of Instruction, Native Language, Second Language Learning
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Angel M. Y. Lin – Language and Education, 2024
Upholding a critical, ethical, multilingual stance presents numerous challenges amidst a myriad of institutional, infrastructural, and societal pressures. Despite significant breakthroughs, such as translanguaging theories and pedagogies and the evolution of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) principles, the journey towards a more inclusive and…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Ethics
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Anna Becker – Language and Education, 2024
The increasing popularity of radical right, anti-immigrant, neo-nationalist movements can be seen as a response to super-diverse and complex migration and globalization processes challenging the ideology of the 'nation-state' and the traditional education system. Based on the question of how English is increasingly viewed as a threat to Swiss…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Chandras, Jessica – Language and Education, 2022
In classrooms in India where the instructional language is to be English, speakers use reported speech in Indian regional languages for pedagogical purposes, renegotiating the roles and statuses among languages in the multilingual setting. Reported speech is a form of indirect speech used when a speaker quotes another in a way that they voice the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Lall, Marie – Language and Education, 2021
Research across Myanmar's ethnic states has shown that large and well organised non-dominant ethnic groups such as the Mon, Karen, Shan and Kachin would prefer Myanmar's education system to offer MTB-MLE so that their children are able to start education in the mother tongue. This article engages with some of the overlooked voices of minorities…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Native Language, Language of Instruction, Minority Groups
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Manan, Syed Abdul; Haidar, Sham; Amin, Rooh UI – Language and Education, 2023
This study demonstrates how stakeholders' treatment of English language as the sole marketable/saleable commodity in educational setting can have implications for multilingualism and existing linguistic diversity in Pakistan. Language commodification refers to the valuation of languages as marketable/saleable commodities and their relative…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Language Planning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Howe, Christine; Mercer, Neil – Language and Education, 2017
This commentary discusses the four papers that comprise the special issue on dialogic teaching and learning, while making general observations that apply across the field as a whole. Similarities and differences are identified over the concepts of "dialogue" and "dialogic pedagogy". The possibility is raised that some aspects…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Multilingualism, Faculty Development, Cost Effectiveness
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Ndebele, Hloniphani; Zulu, Nogwaja S. – Language and Education, 2017
Over the past few decades, there has been an increased awareness of the strategic role of indigenous African languages in multilingual South Africa. This article discusses the strategic role that indigenous languages could and should play in the promotion of multilingual South Africa. The article pays attention to bilingual education and the…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Language of Instruction, African Languages, Bilingualism
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Martin-Jones, Marilyn – Language and Education, 2016
The two opening sections of this Afterword show how the studies in this collection reflect wider trends in research related to language-in-education policy and practice in contemporary contexts of linguistic and cultural diversity: namely, the turn towards interpretive research and the diversification of research sites. The third section focuses…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Language of Instruction, Second Language Learning, Educational Trends
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Tai, Kevin W. H.; Wei, Li – Language and Education, 2021
Recent studies on classroom discourse have challenged the traditional classroom role set and emphasised equal contributions from the participants and the emergence of knowledge through active participation. Co-learning emphasises the process in which teachers and students attempt to adapt to one another's behaviour and learn from each other in…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Discourse Analysis, Phenomenology, Secondary School Students
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