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Emilie S. Le Caous; Tz-Li Wang – International Journal of Learning and Change, 2025
This study investigates the enhancement of spoken English proficiency among students at Taiwan's technological and vocational education (TVE) universities. The focus is on the significant impact of positive learning attitudes and effective methodologies, using questionnaires and in-depth interviews to assess students' confidence and perceptions of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Business Administration Education, Undergraduate Students
Carla Kekejian; Robert Kraemer; Chelsea Sommer; Molly Mcfadden; Chih-Ching Yeh – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2024
The amount of language input bilingual children receive influences their language acquisition. This three-year quasi-longitudinal study determined the extent home language input influences measures of expressive and receptive English vocabulary among Spanish-English school-age bilingual children. The study also determined whether a relationship…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Family Environment, Educational Environment, Language Usage
Jungin Lee; Unkyoung Maeng – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2024
This action research explores how teachers and students at a private elementary school in Gyeonggi Province perceive the effectiveness of the English-only TEE policy and proposes a revised model tailored to the school's diverse needs. A total of 250 students and 6 teachers participated in the study, with data collected through surveys, interviews,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Schools, Elementary Schools, Program Effectiveness
Lenny Sánchez; Eurydice Bouchereau Bauer; Yang Wang; Wenyu Guo; Ling Hao; Kyungjin Hwang – Bilingual Research Journal, 2023
Numerous complexities undergird how parents support the bilingual development of their young learners, especially in a predominantly monolingual-centric society. In this article, we highlight belief practices which informed parents' decision-making processes in supporting their children, who were enrolled in a diverse dual language immersion…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Decision Making, Bilingual Students, Parent Attitudes
Giselle Martinez Negrette – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2024
This qualitative study examines strategies used by children in a kindergarten dual language immersion (DLI) class, when enacting and negotiating intersecting social constructions such as ethnicity, social class, and bilingualism. Drawing on data collected during the 2017-2018 academic year, this paper uses an intersectional lens to describe the…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Immersion Programs, Native Language, Second Language Learning
Amparo Lázaro-Ibarrola; Raúl Azpilicueta-Martínez – Language Teaching Research, 2024
Motivation to learn languages strongly correlates with language achievement, and the school context has a great influence on the motivation of young learners (YLs). A key rationale for the implementation of content and language integrated learning (CLIL) programs, therefore, was pupil motivation. Very few studies have measured motivation in this…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Learning Motivation
Köylü, Zeynep; Tracy-Ventura, Nicole – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2022
In comparative studies focusing on context of learning, the main contexts under investigation have been study abroad (SA), at-home formal instruction (AH), and domestic immersion (IM). With the global status of English and its burgeoning popularity as a medium of instruction in countries where English only holds the status of a lingua franca, a…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Study Abroad, Official Languages
Pennington, Julie L.; Brock, Cynthia H.; Salas, Rachel G.; Gavelek, James R. – Urban Education, 2023
Countries are seeing a rise in the number of families and schoolchildren who do not speak English as a first language. This study focuses on how two White monolingual English-speaking elementary teachers positioned language as it related to their Spanish-speaking students within a graduate teacher education program in the United States. Our work…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, White Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Language Usage
Pratiwi, Widya Rizky; Atmowardoyo, Haryanto; Salija, Kisman – International Journal of Language Education, 2020
The privilege of English as an international lingua franca forces many countries to open a wider opportunity for society to learn the language. However, the unbalance demand between societal needs and the role of English as a foreign language in Indonesia sometimes finds the obstacles in the process of learning. This paper reveals the learners'…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Barriers, Student Attitudes, Immersion Programs
Latisha Mary; Véronique Lemoine-Bresson; Anne Choffat-Dürr – Language Awareness, 2024
Many educators in immersion contexts support a policy of strict separation of languages in the classroom as the ideal model for second language acquisition and are reluctant to make connections between the dominant language, the target language and pupils' home languages. This can result in missed opportunities for drawing on pupils' entire…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, French, Immersion Programs, Elementary School Students
Nerea Villabona; Mikel Gartziarena – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2025
This paper analyzes how future educators would design their ideal school in the context of the Basque Country, with particular attention put on language planning and language teaching aspects. More specifically, we focus on the ideas about the languages to be included in the curriculum, the modes of inclusion of students' home languages and the…
Descriptors: Second Languages, Language of Instruction, Preservice Teachers, Immersion Programs
Maria Claudia Petrescu; Rena Helms-Park – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2024
This longitudinal study documents a trilingual child's struggle with decoding and word recognition, the remedies sought to help him start reading in his second language (English) while he was in French immersion, and his performance after the intervention on tests of phonological awareness in L1 Romanian, L2 English, and L3 French. The study…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Decoding (Reading), Word Recognition, Reading Difficulties
Tse, Shek Kam; Pang, Emily Y. W.; To, Heiken; Tsui, Pik Fong; Lam, Lu Sai – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2022
Chinese as the medium of instruction (MOI) is used across the curriculum for early childhood education in Hong Kong; however, kindergartens with non-Chinese speaking (NCS) students adopt different MOI, in which English remains an integral part of learning and teaching, to cater to the needs of NCS students and their families. The present study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Chinese, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language)
Baca, Evelyn C. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2023
This qualitative case study explored the perspectives of school administrators on implementing structured English immersion (SEI) and dual-language bilingual education (DLBE) programs serving emergent bilingual learners at one urban Arizona elementary school. Using a sociocultural policy perspective, I analyzed findings from a series of interviews…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Professional Autonomy, Administrator Attitudes, State Policy
Amparo Moran-Lopez – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Considerable research on the two-way Spanish immersion model of education highlights benefits such as biliteracy, high academic achievement in both languages of instruction, and sociocultural competence for students of various linguistic and sociocultural backgrounds. The desire to gain these 21st century skills has caused a proliferation of dual…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Teaching Methods, Bilingualism, Culturally Relevant Education