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Mikel Gartziarena; Nerea Villabona; Beñat Olave – Language and Education, 2024
This study investigates the beliefs of primary school teachers about multilingual language teaching and learning approaches and examines the relationship between these beliefs and the current ideas on multilingualism. This paper reports key elements of the multilingual educational reality in the Basque Country, where a minority language (Basque),…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Second Language Instruction, Multilingualism, Teaching Methods
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Elena Andrei; April S. Salerno; Amanda K. Kibler – Language and Education, 2025
We used a Self-Study of Teacher Education Practices (S-STEP) methodology to consider how 16 teachers in an English as a Second Language (ESL) assessment course discussed 'academic' versus 'social' language while assessing a multilingual student's oral language. Using a ­figured-worlds framework to explore teachers' underlying beliefs about the…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Bilingual Students, Multilingualism, Academic Language
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Han Zheng; Mark Barba Pacheco; Julie C. Brown – Language and Education, 2025
Our study examines the scaffolding strategies employed by secondary biology teachers to support multilingual learners (MLs) in engaging with Science and Engineering Practices (SEPs). Rooted in sociocultural theory, we focus on the integration of academic language in disciplinary practices. Data from video-recorded observations of 12 secondary…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Teaching Methods, Science Instruction, Second Language Instruction
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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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Christa Roux Sparreskog – Language and Education, 2024
26% of the students in Swedish compulsory school have an immigrant background. To support the simultaneous development of their language proficiency as well as their academic skills and knowledge, several measures may be implemented by schools. This study focuses on one of those measures, namely multilingual study guidance, and illustrates the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Immigrants
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Elisabeth Kim; Minhye Son – Language and Education, 2024
Dual Language Bilingual Education (DLBE) programs have expanded rapidly in a large Northeastern urban school district in the United States in recent years, but multilingual families, particularly those from immigrant backgrounds, receive limited information about program offerings from school websites. In this qualitative study, utilizing critical…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Web Sites, Content Analysis, Urban Schools
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Goltsev, Evghenia; Olfert, Helena; Putjata, Galina – Language and Education, 2022
In 2009, the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany enacted a law that prescribed a binding module on dealing with linguistic diversity for all future teachers in every university offering teacher training in the state. In this paper, we present an interview study with teacher educators in this so-called DaZ module and their views on…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Teacher Attitudes, Multilingualism, Teaching Methods
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Leung, Constant – Language and Education, 2022
English as an Additional Language (EAL) as a professional discipline is a significant component of public education, and a main educational response to the growing ethno-linguistic diversities in many English-speaking countries. In this article I will focus on the ways in which professional language teacher knowledge has changed over time, paying…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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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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Maxime Van Raemdonck; Robyn Tyler; Piet Van Avermaet; Wendelien Vantieghem – Language and Education, 2024
In response to the increasing linguistic diversity in educational settings resulting from migration waves into the Global North, this study delves into the beliefs of secondary teachers regarding multilingualism within predominantly monolingual policy schools in Flanders, Belgium. Despite the recognized benefits of multilingual pedagogies,…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Multilingualism, Monolingualism, Secondary School Teachers
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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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Duarte, Joana; Günther-van der Meij, Mirjam – Language and Education, 2022
Research suggests that in linguistically and socially diverse classrooms, teachers should draw on their students' multilingual repertoires. Although several approaches to use students' home languages exist, the accessibility of this knowledge among teachers is still limited. Recently, a holistic approach has been put forward to address the needs…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Student Diversity, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Heffington, Deon Victoria; Coady, Maria R. – Language and Education, 2023
Educational systems worldwide underscore the importance of developing higher-order thinking skills (HOTS) to prepare students for the new challenges of the XXI century. Some pressing issues faced by educators include the ambiguity of the construct; the implementation of HOTS in classroom practices; and the implications for teaching students from…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Teaching Methods, Culturally Relevant Education, Case Studies
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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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Thüne, Eva-Maria; Brizic, Katharina – Language and Education, 2022
Learning a new language after forced migration has hardly ever been studied from the perspective of children. Their viewpoint, however, gets even more important, if we want to understand the lifelong consequences of their early experiences. With this aim, we use autobiographical accounts of persons who were rescued from Nazi Germany and brought to…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Refugees, Second Language Learning, Autobiographies
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