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Román, Diego; Pastor, Alberto; Ward, Katherine – Language and Education, 2023
This qualitative study highlights the nuances behind apparent internal linguistic discrimination by Latinx bilingual teachers toward their Latinx students' Spanish. Using a teacher solidarity lens and building on prior work in language ideologies and minoritized bilingual teacher identities, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 15 U.S. and…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Language Variation, Spanish, Second Language Learning
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Araceli Enriquez-Andrade; Ma. Glenda Lopez Wui; Jie Zhang; Lana Kharabi-Yamato; Jackie Eunjung Relyea; Sissy S. Wong – Language and Education, 2024
This study explores teachers' use of Spanish in sixth-grade bilingual science classrooms at an urban middle school in Texas. We used a case study approach to study how two Spanish-English bilingual teachers utilized Spanish during instruction in a unit on space exploration and their beliefs on Spanish use in English-dominant science classrooms.…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Faculty Development
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Hurdus, Jeremy; Lasagabaster, David – Language and Education, 2018
Most agency-focused research in language-in-education policy compares codified intention to reality. Such an approach implies that the policy in question is ontologically stable and can therefore act as the benchmark against which to compare practice. Operating under the notion that ontologically grounded methodologies are susceptible to missing…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Educational Policy, Ethnography, Spanish
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Hamman, Laura – Language and Education, 2018
This article examines the role of translanguaging practices and pedagogies in two-way dual language classrooms. Much of the recent expansion of dual language programs across the US has occurred in mid-sized cities and rural communities where English monolingualism is the norm; however, the extant literature on flexible language practices in…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Elementary School Students, Code Switching (Language), Role
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Plüddemann, Peter – Language and Education, 2015
This paper reflects on the state of educational language policy two decades into a post-Apartheid South Africa caught between official multilingualism and English. The focus is on the national language-in-education policy (LiEP) that advocates additive bi/multilingualism, and a provincial counterpart, the language transformation plan (LTP). Using…
Descriptors: Social Change, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Language Planning
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Kibler, Amanda; Salerno, April; Hardigree, Christine – Language and Education, 2014
Much of the debate regarding outcomes of various types of dual-language programs has focused on linguistic and academic results, and with good reason: improving the educational outcomes of language minorities and supporting societal multilingualism are vital goals. More rarely explored, however, are these programs' ethnolinguistic outcomes: the…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Student Attitudes, Spanish, English (Second Language)
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Lo, Yuen Yi – Language and Education, 2014
Content-based instruction (CBI) adopts a second language (L2) as the medium of instruction for some or all academic subjects to facilitate L2 learning. There seem however, no uniform policies concerning which academic subjects should be taught in L2, in case only some subjects are involved. Conventional wisdom tends to favour Humanities subjects…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
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Chan, Jim Y. H. – Language and Education, 2014
The present study evaluates the impact of the fine-tuning medium of instruction (MOI) policy in Hong Kong in the early stages of its implementation. It explores the key stakeholders' perspectives on a school-based policy via a case study, which gathered multiple sources of qualitative data (i.e. focus groups/interviews, open-ended questionnaires,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction, Second Language Learning, Educational Policy
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Normand-Marconnet, Nadine – Language and Education, 2013
Despite a long historical French presence in Vietnam, only 0.5% of Vietnamese people speak French today. As in other countries of South East Asia, language instruction in Vietnam has mainly focused on English for several decades. This paper provides an overview of a project called "French bilingual classes". The main aim of the study is…
Descriptors: French, Bilingual Education, Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning