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M. Garrett Delavan; Juan A. Freire; Ester de Jong – Modern Language Journal, 2025
This theoretical article, with recommendations for practice, interrogates how the field discusses dual language bilingual education (DLBE) models in the United States, with international implications for bilingual, immersion, and content and language integrated learning contexts. We reconceptualize the equity problems and potentials of so-called…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Equal Education, Decision Making, Immersion Programs
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Lesley Harbon; Ruth Fielding – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
This paper explores secondary school students' investment in their language learning after having graduated from one of four bilingual (also termed Content and Language Integrated Language (CLIL)) primary school programs in New South Wales (NSW), Australia. We show the different study pathways pursued by a selection of students and illustrate…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Self Concept, Academic Persistence, Second Language Instruction
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Wang, Tiange; Lee, Jin Sook – Bilingual Research Journal, 2023
In response to the limitations presented by restrictive language separation practices in dual language immersion programs, this study describes a curriculum bridging approach that was undertaken by a group of teachers in a one-way Chinese English Dual Language Education program to promote and build on students' full linguistic repertoires. The…
Descriptors: Chinese, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Anastasieva, Oksana; Yemelyanova, Yevgeniya; Sukhova, Anna; Rudenko, Svitlana; Martakova, Anna – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2022
The paper considers project work as a form of individual student activity in the course of English for specific purposes (ESP). This type of work contributes to the acquisition of professional knowledge and the search for certain information for solving practical problems and, thus, activates cognitive activity. The implementation of the project…
Descriptors: Student Projects, English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Molle, Daniella; Huang, Weiqiong – Science Education International, 2021
This study addressed the intractable issue of ensuring that all students, including those who are linguistically and culturally diverse, have access to high quality science education. We explored the efforts of two organizations in the United States (one that supports science teachers and one that focuses on language development) to design…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Science Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Zheng Gu – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Bilingual education in the United States basically involves English language learners (ELLs) in mainstream classes and students who are learning an additional language in a foreign language immersion (FLI) program. Although academic vocabulary instruction for ELLs has attracted increasing attention in the past two decades (e.g., McQuillan, 2019;…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Immersion Programs, Vocabulary Development, Chinese
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Bárcena Toyos, Patricia – Latin American Journal of Content and Language Integrated Learning, 2022
The provision of CLIL teachers in Spain has outpaced the growth of the so-called bilingual programs, as there are no specific training requirements for CLIL teachers who are either content or language specialists. So, CLIL teachers have a preexistent teacher identity that could influence their pedagogical choices. This study examines how teachers…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Content and Language Integrated Learning, Metalinguistics, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
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Chang, Sin-Yi – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2023
In this conceptual paper I examine how current understandings of English medium instruction (EMI) can be refined to inform language policy-making and practice in higher education. Starting from a set of EMI definitions (Dafouz, E., & Smit, U. 2020. "ROAD-MAPPING English medium education in the internationalized university." Palgrave…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language of Instruction
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Chen, Qi; Li, Ying; Xu, Yifang; Guo, Zihao – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
In view of the rapid growth of English-medium instruction (EMI) in higher education institutions (HEIs), we observe the need to account for the educational and linguistic consequences of HEIs' decision to 'Englishise' their curricula. Especially, EMI in Asian countries (e.g. China) are fuelled by state-level initiatives to internationalise the…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Universities
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Tammy Slater; Gulbahar Beckett – MEXTESOL Journal, 2019
In this article, the authors first summarize the literature on project-based language learning (PBLL), a sound approach to second language teaching, addressing its various benefits such as providing opportunities to develop language authentically in real-world contexts, building decision-making and problem-solving skills, and developing content…
Descriptors: Content and Language Integrated Learning, Technological Literacy, Student Projects, Active Learning
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Porto, Melina; Byram, Michael – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2022
Recent articles on the problems of 'locus of enunciation' have focused on research and publication as well as on theoretical development of the concept. It is an issue in teaching and learning too, and this is the focus of this article which argues that to reject teaching approaches in 'the South' because they come from 'the North' is, first,…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Moncada-Comas, Balbina; Block, David – Language Learning Journal, 2021
In the shift to English-medium instruction (EMI) in European higher education, policy often runs ahead of research and curricular decisions are taken independent of evidence regarding their suitability for achieving broader educational goals, which may range from internationalisation as a general strategy to English language learning as a more…
Descriptors: Content and Language Integrated Learning, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Sieglova, Dagmar; Stejskalova, Lenka – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2021
The twenty-first century is a time of unprecedented social and technological development. Defining the period is an internationally interconnected world pregnant with information, dynamic events, and individual choice. These attributes create a highly complex, unpredictable, ambiguous and volatile environment that places new demands on every adult…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Content and Language Integrated Learning
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Brooke, Mark – Teaching in Higher Education, 2020
The paper seeks to demonstrate how academic Content Obligatory Language can be potentially organized in teacher talk applying semantic gravity waving from Legitimation Code Theory. The questions asked are: Which concepts do I teach from my discipline in this session? How do I teach these to ensure effective comprehension? Research was conducted…
Descriptors: Content and Language Integrated Learning, Semantics, Teaching Methods, Profiles
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Silvia Kunitz, Editor; Numa Markee, Editor; Olcay Sert, Editor – Educational Linguistics, 2021
This book presents an international range of conversation analytic (CA) studies of classroom interaction which all discuss their empirical findings in terms of their theoretical and methodological contribution to the field of second language studies and their potential pedagogical relevance. The volume is thus unique in its focus on the…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Classroom Communication, Teaching Methods, Second Language Instruction