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Direct linkKirsch, Claudine; Mortini, Simone – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2023
The increasing societal and linguistic diversity in schools challenge traditional teaching approaches and call for pedagogies that cater to the growing number of multilingual pupils. Translanguaging pedagogies can offer multilinguals a productive learning environment that helps them leverage their resources for learning. Translanguaging studies in…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Code Switching (Language), Longitudinal Studies, Foreign Countries
Kirsch, Claudine; Aleksic, Gabrijela; Mortini, Simone; Andersen, Katja – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2020
This paper investigates seven early education practitioners' attitudes toward multilingual activities and translanguaging as well as their actual practices in Luxembourg. They took part in a professional development comprising a course, coaching, and regular meetings to deepen their understanding of multilingualism and language learning, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Multilingualism
Kirsch, Claudine – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2021
Multilingual education is mandatory in early childhood education in several European countries. Scholars working in first, second and foreign language learning have shown the effectiveness of interaction-promoting and language-modelling strategies for language development. In addition, teachers in bilingual contexts have been translanguaging to…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Indo European Languages
Kirsch, Claudine – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2018
While translanguaging has been well researched in bilingual settings with older pupils and has been found to contribute to cognitive and personal development, there is little research on translanguaging of young multilinguals. In trilingual Luxembourg, at school, children learn Luxembourgish aged 4, German aged 6 and French aged 7, with the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Primary Education, Bilingual Students
Kirsch, Claudine; Gogonas, Nikolaos – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2018
Against the backdrop of the ongoing crisis-led migration from Southern to Northwestern Europe, the present paper reports on a case study of two families who have recently migrated from Greece to Luxembourg. Luxembourg has a trilingual education system and many pupils of migrant background face difficulties on this account. Drawing on the framework…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Immigrants, Language Usage, Family Environment
Kirsch, Claudine – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2012
Researchers have studied family language planning within bilingual family contexts but there is a dearth of studies that examine language planning of multilingual parents who raise their children in one of the world's lesser spoken languages. In this study I explore the ideologies and language planning of Luxembourgish mothers who are raising…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Mothers, Multilingualism, Ideology
