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Mittsuyasu Oda – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2025
Rabies is a viral infectious disease with a mortality rate of almost 100%. More than 50,000 people worldwide die of rabies each year, despite well-established prevention methods. It is particularly prevalent in poorer regions of Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, where most victims are poor and minority. This study aims to determine the…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Urban Areas, Geographic Isolation, Foreign Countries
Abdullah Azizi; Nematollah Azizi; David Romano; Seyedeh Asra Sajadi; Ali Amini Bagh – Discover Education, 2024
This paper explores teachers' experiences of using only Persian language in Iranian schools and its consequences. To do this qualitative method and phenomenological approach was employed. Participants included all teachers of K-12 across Sanandaj and fifteen experienced teachers (8 male and 7 female) were selected via purposive sampling. A…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indo European Languages, Language Usage, Language of Instruction
Liana Regina Iunesch; Robert Pfützner – Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning, 2025
German, a West Germanic language belonging to the Indo-European family, is one of the languages of culture and education in Romania. It is spoken by one of 18 recognised minorities in Romania. German has been spoken in Romania throughout history and continues to be spoken today because various German-speaking groups settled in what is now Romania…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, German, Second Language Learning, Language Minorities
Ozfidan, Burhan; Burlbaw, Lynn M.; Koklu, Onder – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2023
The purpose of this study is to investigate how a bilingual education program effects the minority groups' academic achievement. An explanatory sequential mixed method was used for this study. Triangulation was used in both the quantitative and qualitative parts of the study to minimize prejudice and enhance honesty regarding the social phenomenon…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education Programs, Ethnic Groups, Intergroup Relations
Tibor Toró – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
In Romania most Hungarian-speaking children study in their mother tongue, in Hungarian-language classes. Some of these are organised in 'mixed schools', where parallel Hungarian and Romanian classes coexist in the same institution. Although these institutions seem a good solution for inter-ethnic coexistence, no systematic research has been…
Descriptors: Hungarian, Romance Languages, Native Language, Language of Instruction
Babino, Alexandra; Muñoz, Kimberly – Bilingual Research Journal, 2023
In a bilingual teacher preparation milieu fraught with high stakes and little time to develop biliteracies in humanizing ways, the researchers engaged in a comparative case study of two types of bilingual pre-service teachers, a heritage bilingual and an initially Spanish-dominant bilingual, to explore how they grew in their biliteracies after the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Bilingual Teachers, Literacy Education, Second Language Learning
Jia Chen; Lin Wang; Youngsoon Kim – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
To examine the specific education challenges that minority language-speaking parents encounter in teaching their children heritage language, this study conducted in-depth interviews with ten Chinese immigrant parents in Korean-Chinese multicultural families. Textual analysis of the interviews revealed that 'One Parent One Language' is a natural…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Immigrants, Parent Attitudes, Teaching Methods
Ping Zhang; Bob Adamson – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
Recent developments in multilingualism and multilingual education in minority-dominated regions in China highlight the importance of policy studies to support the national goals of achieving multilingualism [Feng, A. W., and B. Adamson, eds. 2015. "Trilingualism in Education in China: Models and Challenges." Dordrecht: Springer],…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Geographic Regions, Foreign Countries, Language Minorities
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
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
Idoiaga Mondragon, Nahia; Orcasitas-Vicandi, Maria; Roman Etxebarrieta, Gorka – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
This paper focuses on the use of language during the emergency eLearning period due to COVID-19 in the Basque Autonomous Community. Specifically, the main objective of this study is to analyze how the use of Basque (local minority language), English (foreign language), and Spanish (local majority language) changed during this period among children…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Spanish, Language Minorities, Language Usage
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
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
Doleschal, Ursula – Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning, 2023
This Regional Dossier focuses on the Austrian federal province of Carinthia, where the vast majority of the Slovene-speaking minority in Austria lives. The Slovene language belongs to the South Slavic language group. It was the official language of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia in former Yugoslavia and has been the state language of…
Descriptors: Slavic Languages, Native Language, Native Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Weinberg, Miranda – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2021
Analyzing three cases of school-level language policy decision-making in Nepal shows that each school had a pair of language policy arbiters, actors with disproportionate power over language policy decisions. The permissive but passive stance of Nepal's government toward providing multilingual schooling including minoritized languages created a…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Decision Making, Ethnography, Power Structure