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Sara Salloum; Rayya Younes; Maya Antoun – Research in Science Education, 2025
In Lebanon, science is taught in an international language (French or English) based on a language-in-education policy rooted in Lebanon's colonial history. Given the intersection among social/socioeconomic class, educational equity, and science performance, learning science in a language other than one's own raises concerns around…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Achievement, Science Instruction, Language of Instruction
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Jean-Baptiste M. B. Sanfo; Keiichi Ogawa – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2024
The language used as a medium of instruction (MOI) has implications for learning outcomes. In most African classrooms, an international language is solely or dominantly used as an MOI. There is a debate about how this practice is associated with students' learning outcomes. This study uses Zambian PISA for Development 2018 data and school fixed…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Second Language Learning, Code Switching (Language), Language Usage
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Donia Smaali Bouhlila; Imen Hentati – Journal of Education in Muslim Societies, 2023
We explore the impact of the language of instruction on academic performance of Arabic-speaking students who are expected to learn mathematics and science in and through a second language (L2). Using as a theoretical background Cummins's (1984) framework relating language proficiency to academic achievement, we provide some insights into the…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Elementary School Students, Academic Achievement, Arabic
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Younes, Rayya; Salloum, Sara; Antoun, Maya – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2023
Understanding the long-standing educational inequities associated with socioeconomic status remains significant for transforming educational policies and practices. To better understand entanglements among socioeconomic status and students' performance in mathematics, we examined different home factors (including language of the test) that…
Descriptors: Native Language, Family Environment, Socioeconomic Status, Foreign Countries
Jarrah, Adeeb M. – Online Submission, 2020
Purpose of the study: The purpose of the study is to investigate Mathematics and Science elementary school teachers' perceptions of using English as a medium of instruction in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) primary schools. Methodology: This research utilized an explanatory sequential mixed-methods design. The first phase of the research featured…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Science Teachers
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Yuen Yi Lo; Daniel Fung; Xuyan Qiu – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
As the content knowledge of English language learners and immigrant students is assessed in their less proficient language, the validity and fairness of assessments related to those students have been widely discussed. However, such assessment issues have not received much attention in rapidly expanding bilingual education programmes, where…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries, Student Evaluation
New Mexico Public Education Department, 2024
The Language and Culture Division (LCD) provides accountability with support to districts that serve students participating in Bilingual Multicultural Education Programs (BMEPs) so that all participating students achieve the program goals as outlined by New Mexico statute and administrative code, which are: (1) students become bilingual and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Spanish, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Charamba, Erasmos – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
This study describes multilingual students' authentic use of their multiple languages in a science classroom in Viljoensdrift, South Africa. There has been a broad scope of research conducted by several researchers with regards to translanguaging and all have proven it to be an effective pedagogical tool that can be used in the process of teaching…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Code Switching (Language), Teaching Methods, Multilingualism
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Charamba, Erasmos – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
Education for multilingual Physics students in South Africa still has a monolingual bias despite such pedagogy being repeatedly identified as the key factor in students' academic underachievement in the subject. The paper reports on the pivotal role language plays in the comprehension and subsequent academic performance of students in science…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Physics, Science Education, Teaching Methods
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2020
This review-specific protocol guides the review of research that informs the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) intervention reports in the English learners (EL) topic area. The review-specific protocol is used in conjunction with the "WWC Procedures and Standards Handbooks (version 4.0)." ELs are among the fastest-growing population in U.S.…
Descriptors: English Learners, Intervention, Mathematics Achievement, Science Achievement
Rangel, Marcos A.; Shi, Ying – Grantee Submission, 2019
We provide empirical evidence of immigrants' specialization in skill acquisition well before entering the US labor market. Nationally representative datasets enable studying the academic trajectories of immigrant children, with a focus on high-school course-taking patterns and college major choice. Immigrant children accumulate skills in ways that…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Specialization, Skill Development, Job Skills
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Baker, Doris Luft; Basaraba, Deni Lee; Polanco, Paul – Review of Research in Education, 2016
The authors of this chapter review empirical studies that have been conducted in bilingual education to propose a future research agenda that incorporates the most recent evidence on the effectiveness of bilingual programs, advances in neuroscience, and the body of evidence of the benefits of being bilingual and biliterate. They first describe the…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Bilingualism, Bilingual Education, Futures (of Society)
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Sandilands, Debra; McKeown, Stephanie Barclay; Lyons-Thomas, Juliette; Ercikan, Kadriye – Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, 2014
Minority Francophone students in predominantly English-speaking Canadian provinces tend to perform lower on large-scale assessments of achievement than their Anglophone peers and majority Francophone students in Quebec. This study is the first to apply multilevel modeling methods to examine the extent to which school-level factors may be…
Descriptors: French Canadians, Science Instruction, Science Achievement, Foreign Countries
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Kirby, Nicola F.; Dempster, Edith R. – International Journal of Science Education, 2015
In South Africa, foundation programmes are a well-established alternative access route to tertiary science study for educationally disadvantaged students. Student access to, and performance in, one such foundation programme has been researched by the authors seeking opportunities to improve student retention. The biology module in particular has…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Instruction, Academic Discourse, Language of Instruction
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Guglielmi, R. Sergio – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2012
The effectiveness of various strategies for educating the growing U.S. population of English language learners (ELLs) has attracted a great deal of controversy. Bilingual education theory posits that retention and continued development of native language (L1) skills facilitate academic achievement through two mediating mechanisms. First, L1…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Science Achievement, Bilingual Education, Second Language Learning
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