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Suwilai Premsrirat, Editor; David Hirsh, Editor – Multilingual Matters, 2025
This book sheds light on the role of mother tongue-based multilingual education (MTB MLE) as a means to enhance educational outcomes, creating a space for non-dominant languages alongside more dominant regional, national and international languages. It brings together a number of underlying concerns including the maintenance of non-dominant…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language of Instruction, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning
Ada Bier; Gabriele Zanello; Antonella Ottogalli – Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning, 2024
The aim of the Regional Dossier series is to provide concise descriptions of regional or minority languages in education, mainly in Europe but also in other parts of the world. Friulian is a Romance language, traditionally recognised as part of the Rhaeto-Romance sub-family. It is spoken in Friûl (in Friulian)/Friuli (in Italian), a territory…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Foreign Countries, Native Language Instruction, Italian
Kasai, Haruna – Comparative Education, 2022
Since 2019, Taiwan has implemented native language education for 'new immigrants' from Southeast Asian countries. This paper argues that the new educational provisions reflect the Taiwanese government's desire to appropriate new immigrants' cultures and languages to promote a multicultural vision of Taiwanese identity. It analyses the 12-year…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Native Language Instruction, Asians, Cultural Awareness
Niewulis-Grablunas, Jowita; Grablunas, Piotr – Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning, 2023
This regional dossier aims to provide concise descriptions and basic statistics about minority language education in a specific region of Europe. Lithuanian is a Baltic language that belongs to the Indo-European family. Most of the Lithuanian-speaking minority in Poland is confined to three municipalities near the Polish-Lithuanian border.…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Polish, Language of Instruction, Language Minorities
Tyran, Katharina, Comp. – Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning, 2022
This regional dossier aims to provide a concise, description and basic statistics about minority language education in a specific region of Europe. The glottonym Croatian in Austria covers two linguistic realities, namely the recognised minority language of Burgenland Croats and the Croatian standard language as a migrant language of the recent…
Descriptors: Serbocroatian, Language Minorities, Cross Cultural Studies, Elementary School Students
Wilson, George – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2023
This article compares the immersion-education systems in Brittany and Wales. The number of Welsh speakers is growing thanks to its well-developed immersion-education system. Brittany has a much less well-developed system and the number of Breton speakers is falling dramatically. Urgent action is needed if Breton is to survive. Using an approach…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Welsh, Comparative Education, Foreign Countries
Makarova, Irina; Duarte, Joana; Huilcán, Marcela I. – Language Awareness, 2023
Increasing migration-induced language diversity is putting pressure on the teaching of regional and minority languages in official bi- or multilingual regions. This study presents an in-depth analysis of teachers' and teacher trainers' beliefs and views towards language awareness and translanguaging approaches as possible ways to enhance pupils'…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Language Usage, Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning
Albina Necak Lük; Attila Kovács – Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning, 2024
The aim of the Regional Dossier series is to provide concise descriptions of regional or minority languages in education, mainly in Europe but also in other parts of the world. The majority of the Hungarian-speaking population in Slovenia lives in the bilingual ethnically mixed area of the Prekmurje region, where both Slovene and Hungarian are…
Descriptors: Hungarian, Language Minorities, Slavic Languages, Native Language
Casadio, Ylenia – Education Research and Perspectives, 2021
After World War II there was a push to reinvigorate the economies and industries of Western Europe, and to find methods to avoid the outbreak of more wars in the region. As a result, the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) was founded in 1952 (European Coal and Steel Community, 2016) an important step towards the full European Union (EU), led…
Descriptors: War, Economic Development, Fuels, Metallurgy
Tabatadze, Shalva – International Journal of Language Education, 2022
Language education and schooling are important topics in post-conflict contexts. This study explores the existing situation of mother tongue education in the de facto Abkhazia. The study had the following research questions: (1) What was the ethnic composition of Abkhazia during the Soviet Union, and how Russian occupation changed it? (2) How well…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Ethnic Groups, Native Language Instruction
Mahapatra, Santosh Kumar; Anderson, Jason – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2023
This paper proposes a framework for multilingual language-in-education policy implementation, offered as a critically constructive response to India's recent "National Education Policy 2020" (GOI, 2020). Rooted in India's existing educational language policy, our linguistically inclusive 'Languages for Learning' (LFL) framework is, we…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Outcomes of Education, Multilingualism, Language of Instruction
Kolobe, Maboleba; Matsoso, Lifelile – International Journal of Language Education, 2020
This paper provides a critical overview of the theoretical and practical questions that prevail in the teaching, learning, and assessment of learners from diverse linguistic backgrounds in Lesotho. It investigates how far exclusion of minority languages affects both assessment and/or educational development of learners whose mother tongue is not…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Minorities, Educational Development, African Languages
Baïdak, Nathalie; Noorani, Sogol – Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency, European Commission, 2019
This Eurydice report provides a short overview of policy efforts made across Europe in support of the teaching of regional or minority languages in schools. It firstly presents the reference made to regional or minority languages by top-level education authorities in official documents. It then illustrates some of the policies and measures related…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Native Language Instruction
Ghandchi, Narges – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2018
This article investigates encounters between the two overall language resources -- standard vs. non-standard and regional varieties -- in two linguistic minority communities in Denmark. Concentrating on Turkish and Farsi mother tongue classes, the study departs from two interviews with the parents of mother tongue students. Additional ethnographic…
Descriptors: Turkish, Indo European Languages, Language Minorities, Native Language Instruction
Ball, Jessica; Smith, Mariam – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2023
Multilingual education (MLE) is increasingly recognized as a means to ensure equitable access to education for children with a nondominant first language and to retain endangered languages. UNESCO has championed MLE and identified 10 essential components in planning implementation of MLE implementation. This article examines these 10 components in…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Language of Instruction, Multilingualism, Foreign Countries