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Guskaroska, Agata; Elliott, Thomas – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2022
Heritage language maintenance can be very challenging for diaspora communities worldwide. The role of technology on heritage language maintenance has recently started to spark the interest of researchers as a new emerging field but it still needs a lot of exploration. This exploratory study aims to provide an insight into Macedonian diaspora…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Immigrants, Parent Attitudes, Second Language Learning
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Moodley, Maglin; Dlamini, Reuben – South African Journal of Education, 2021
Education in the 21st century must have a vision that will support and empower teachers to face the demands of the digital age. The use of information communication technology (ICT) in education can serve this end but ensuring access to digital resources will not address the digital disparity. Culture and language play an equally important role in…
Descriptors: Accuracy, African Languages, Native Language, Teacher Attitudes
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Martin, Kit; Lam, Eva – Grantee Submission, 2020
Transnational youth use digital media to affiliate with diverse cultural and linguistic practices, as demonstrated through the use of multiple languages and hybrid linguistic codes, media genres and multimodal expressions in the youths' online communication and writing (Black, 2009; Domingo, 2014; Kim, 2016). This study introduces a learning…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Information Technology, Language Usage, Code Switching (Language)
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Said, Fatma F. S. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
The paper describes the transformational role technology plays in the management and transmission of heritage (minority) languages (HL) in two UK-based multilingual families. Data were collected in the form of a language background survey, parental interviews, and recordings of interactional events within the home. Findings suggest that parents…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Language Attitudes, Multilingualism, Language Usage
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Dodds, Colin B.; Whelan, Alison; Kharrufa, Ahmed; Satar, Müge – Research-publishing.net, 2021
This chapter is based on a workshop at IVEC 2020 which presented a model of Virtual Exchange (VE) facilitated by interactive, digital, and cultural artefacts created using a progressive web app developed by the EU-funded ENACT project team. The model offers an innovative approach to online intercultural exchange through the opportunity to create,…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Open Educational Resources
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Lexander, Kristin Vold; Androutsopoulos, Jannis – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
This paper contributes to current sociolinguistic research on the rapidly-changing landscape of digitally mediated communication (Androutsopoulos and Staehr 2018) by presenting mediagrams, a new method for research on transnational mediated interaction. Based on an ethnographic study of mediated multilingual communication in four families with…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Language Research, Computer Mediated Communication, Ethnography
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Cyparsade, Mohun; Auckloo, Pritee; Belath, Ismut; Dookhee, Helina; Hurreeram, Navin – Science Education International, 2013
This study describes how in-service teachers in the pre-vocational sector in Mauritius adopted specific strategies to overcome the language barrier in the learning of science (Van Driel, Verloop & de Vos, 1998). Students of form III were taught few basic ideas related to "Earth & Space" through the use of role play and ICT. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Instruction, Earth Science, Learning Processes