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Tina Cok – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2024
In terms of integration policy, Slovenia is considered a country that promotes the integration of children with an immigrant background into schools as quickly as possible. However fast the integration process may be, languages always play a key role in the education of pupils with an immigrant background and teachers need to adapt to their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Immigration, Inclusion
Robertson, Sally-Ann; Graven, Mellony – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2019
Immersion models require the concurrent teaching of mathematics and of a second language. Research evidence suggests that few teachers possess sufficient pedagogical knowledge and skill to manage both these tasks adequately. The argument in this position paper is that the construct of 'language-as-resource' offers a more equitable bridging pathway…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Willans, Fiona; Leung, Constant – Language Teaching, 2016
With global attention currently focused on the challenge of providing Education for All (UNESCO 2000), we must ensure that the language of teaching and learning remains a topic on the agenda towards making sure that the education being provided is effective. This is therefore a critical time to review medium of instruction debates, and to reassess…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Language of Instruction, Native Language, Foreign Countries
Shaeffer, Sheldon F. – UNESCO Bangkok, 2020
Two major, inter-related issues are analysed in this paper -- mother tongue (MT) and early childhood care and education (ECCE). Evidence tells us that learning first in one's MT leads to better outcomes in the future -- for individuals, cultures, and nations. But MT is used rarely in ECCE programmes and the early grades of primary school so that…
Descriptors: Native Language, Child Care, Early Childhood Education, Language of Instruction
Evans, Rinelle; Cleghorn, Ailie – South African Journal of Education, 2014
In this article we report and reflect on the responses to a questionnaire survey administered to 600 parents/caregivers, whose Foundation Phase children attend a former Afrikaans-medium primary school where English is now the sole medium of instruction, although English is not spoken as home language by either teachers or learners. We explored…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, School Choice, Indo European Languages, Native Language
Hamid, M. Obaidul; Honan, Eileen – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2012
Globalisation and the global spread of English have led nation-states to introduce English into the early years of schooling to equip their citizens with communicative competence in order to compete within a global economy for individual and national development. In teaching English as a Second/Foreign Language, nations have adopted…
Descriptors: Democracy, Global Approach, Foreign Countries, Communicative Competence (Languages)