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Charamba, Erasmos – International Review of Education, 2023
The call for improving students' academic achievement in science education has increased in urgency in recent years. It has also increased in complexity in the face of the growing cultural and linguistic diversity of present-day classrooms following inter- and intra-state migration. Although "translanguaging" pedagogy, where languages of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Instruction, Student Diversity, Language Usage
Chaehyun Lee – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2024
This study employed a discourse analysis methodology to compare Korean bilingual students in first and third grades by examining different functions and forms of translanguaging in Korean heritage language classrooms in the U.S. By identifying linguistic functions and forms of each translanguaging occurrence, the study presents that the bilingual…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Korean Americans, Asian American Students, Language Usage
Krause, Gladys H.; Adams-Corral, Melissa; Maldonado Rodríguez, Luz A. – Journal of Urban Mathematics Education, 2022
This study contributes to efforts to characterize teaching that is responsive to children's mathematical ideas and linguistic repertoire. Building on translanguaging, defined in this article as a pedagogical practice that facilitates students' expression of their understanding using their own language practices, and on the literature surrounding…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Mathematics Education, Elementary School Students, Language Usage
Krause-Alzaidi, Lara-Stephanie – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2023
Linguistic heterogeneity and fluidity--prominently captured in the notion of 'translanguaging'-- are starting to be seen as normative and natural. In turn, homogeneity and fixity, instantiated for example in standard languages, are becoming the 'odd-ones-out.' I challenge the dichotomy between linguistic fluidity (languaging) and fixity (named…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Usage, Writing (Composition), Elementary Education
Chinese Primary School Students' Translanguaging in EFL Classrooms: What Is It and Why Is It Needed?
Guo, Haojun – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2023
This paper reports on a qualitative study of 35 Chinese primary school students' needs of translanguaging in English classrooms where speaking Chinese is officially not favored. The author collected data through classroom observation, audio recordings, field notes, and semi-structured interviews. The analysis revealed that driven by the unknown…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Chinese, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Lindsey Moses; Carolina Torrejon Capurro – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2024
This article explores the findings from a formative study focused on language and literacy development in an international school's K5 classroom in South America. The teacher's pedagogical goal was to increase the amount of English used by students related to the social context of a restaurant. The intervention involved an integrated literacy and…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Code Switching (Language), Self Concept, Kindergarten
Alberto Esquinca; Maria Teresa de la Piedra; Lidia Herrera-Rocha – Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research, 2023
Students classified as English language learners (ELLs), many of whom are also Hispanic/Latiné/x, are at times excluded from opportunities to engage in engineering design experiences due to the emphasis on learning English. In dual language bilingual education, however, language policies that allow for the use and development of more than one…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Engineering Education, Spanish, English (Second Language)
Suárez, Enrique – Science Education, 2020
As science education continues to embrace science-as-practice, equitable science learning environments must value and leverage emergent bilingual students' ways of communicating. This study investigates the translanguaging practices of a group of elementary-aged emergent bilingual students while they problematized electrical phenomena. Building on…
Descriptors: Science Education, Elementary School Students, Bilingual Students, Language Usage
Soili Norro – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The main focus of the article is on teachers' classroom language practices in eight primary schools in Oshana and Khomas school regions. Language ideologies and translanguaging practices were used as a theoretical framework to evaluate the language ecologies that were created by the language practices in the schools included in the research study.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Jasmin Decristan; Victoria Bertram; Valentina Reitenbach; Katharina Maria Schneider; Carmen Köhler; Dominique Patricia Rauch – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
One shared goal of classroom instruction is to support students' reading competence as a key skill of school success and participation in daily life. Yet, teaching that addresses multilingual students' language-related resources to support reading is rare. In this study, we enriched reciprocal teaching with elements of linguistically responsive…
Descriptors: Intervention, Reading Instruction, Elementary School Students, German
Kwon, Jungmin – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
A transnational turn on language and literacy urges increased attention on the flexible languaging practices of immigrant children who cross the boundaries of languages, cultures, nations, and beyond. This study examines how immigrant children and parents from transnational immigrant families engaged in translanguaging in museums during their…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Immigrants, Code Switching (Language), Museums
Caballero, Núria; Celaya, M. Luz – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
This study sets out to explore the effect of proficiency and modality of interaction on code-switching (CS) amongst two groups of Spanish-Catalan learners acquiring English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in Primary school (grade 3, n = 24 and grade 6, n = 21). Data was retrieved from audio-taped oral activities (peer interaction and learner-teacher…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Grade 3
Krause, Gladys H. – ZDM: Mathematics Education, 2023
This work studies mathematics word problems' use in a classroom of recent immigrants, or newcomers, to a United States public elementary school. I study how word problems foster the recontextualization of mathematical concepts in a lived reality experienced by newcomer students in their new cultural and educational setting. In this study's setting…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Multilingualism, Language Usage, Language of Instruction
Mzamani J. Maluleke – Issues in Educational Research, 2023
This paper explores the efficacy of implementing bilingual education in the Foundation Phase in South Africa. Doctrinal analysis was used as a data collection tool wherein English and Xitsonga were both used as mediums of instruction in the Foundation Phase. To acquire empirical evidence used to add doctrinal data, eight contact sessions were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingual Education, Native Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Rowe, Lindsey W. – Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice, 2022
While translingual and translanguaging orientations have been posited as supportive for emergent bilingual children in schools, limited research explores how children in English-medium spaces enact translingual composing practices. Drawing on theorizations of translingual composing as an interactional process, this paper analyzes data from a…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Elementary School Students, Bilingual Students, Language of Instruction