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Sitwe Benson Mkandawire; Stephanie Simmons Zuilkowski; Joseph Mwenya Mwansa; Peter Chomba Manchishi – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2024
Pedagogical strategies intended for monolingual classes may not adequately address the educational needs and aspirations of culturally and linguistically diverse learners, as multilingual and bilingual learners differ from monolinguals. This article sought to understand multilingual teachers' pedagogical approaches to helping non-speakers of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning
Kufakunesu Zano; Mafemani Joseph Baloyi – Acta Educationis Generalis, 2025
Introduction: Today, classes made up of learners with different linguistic backgrounds are a reality in many countries, including South Africa. Thus, this study was driven by the need to explore the various preconditions that must be met for the inclusion of home languages in an English First Additional Language context in the Further Education…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Native Language, Language of Instruction
Khalifa, Elsadig Mohamed – Dinamika Ilmu, 2021
The present paper addresses the attitudes of Saudi students toward using English dictionaries at Albaha University. A sample of 64 English majors in the College of Science and Arts in Almandaq took part in this study. A descriptive quantitative approach was implemented in this study. A 24-item questionnaire was applied in this study to collect the…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Dictionaries, English (Second Language)
Jorolan-Quintero, Genevieve – International Review of Education, 2018
English and Filipino (Tagalog) are the official languages of the Philippines. English is taught in schools and used as a medium of instruction as early as kindergarten. Because it was originally imposed by Western colonialism, its use in academia has been criticised as discriminatory to regional and indigenous languages other than Tagalog, which…
Descriptors: Oral Tradition, Native Language, Multilingualism, Foreign Countries
Anderson, Jim; Anderson, Ann – Reading Psychology, 2021
The purpose of this study, which employed mixed methods, was to document the implementation of a bilingual family literacy program with immigrant and refugee families from four different language groups in five different communities in a metropolitan area of Canada. Results indicated: 1) the program had a significant impact on children's early…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Maintenance, Immigrants, Refugees
Baskin, Sami; Mumcu, Muhsin – International Education Studies, 2018
Dictionaries, one of the oldest tools of language education, have continued to be a part of education although information technologies and concept of education has changed over time. Until today, with the help of the developments in technology both types of dictionaries have increased, and usage areas have expanded. Therefore, it is possible to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dictionaries, College Students, Second Language Learning
Wedin, Åsa; Aho, Erica Bomström – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2019
The aim of this article is to develop knowledge about recently arrived students' agency in learning science in upper secondary school in Sweden. The material was created through observations of science lessons and stimulated-recall interviews with four students. Findings showed that the multimodal and multilingual practices students were involved…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Secondary School Students, Immigrants
White, Aien Charity Grace; Chaudhari, Apoorv; White, Jonathon David – Physics Education, 2021
Engaging Electrical Engineering (EE) students in a freshman general physics service course is challenging as they see little relationship between the topics and their major. Non-native speakers enrolled in a course taught in English face an additional challenge beyond understanding the basic physics, that is, understanding specialized English.…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Discovery Learning, Engineering Education, Physics
Priego, Sabrina; Liaw, Meei-Ling – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2017
An Activity Theory framework has been increasingly applied for understanding the tension or contradictions in telecollaboration. However, to date, few researchers have applied it to the analysis of digital stories, and none of them, to our knowledge, have used it to analyze the co-creation of multilingual digital stories. In this study, we explore…
Descriptors: Social Theories, Telecommunications, Computer Mediated Communication, Cooperative Learning
Takaya, Kentei – Journal of International and Comparative Education, 2016
With the growing mobility of international students in Asia and the Pacific, Taiwan has become actively involved in promoting international academic exchange. This research investigates the experience of exchange students from the Philippines and mainland China and examines their needs while studying in Taiwan. Qualitative in-depth interviews were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Exchange Programs, Foreign Students, Student Needs
Hamilton, Robert – Journal of International Education Research, 2014
In this study, the prototype of a new type of bilingual picture book was field-tested with two sets of mother-son subject pairs. This picture book was designed as a possible tool for providing children with comprehensible input during their critical period for second language acquisition. Context is provided by visual cues and both Japanese and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Preschool Children
Manitoba Dept. of Education and Training, Winnipeg. – 1995
This bibliography offers a listing of German language instructional resource texts, videorecordings, kits, and films on many subjects, available from the provincial library of Manitoba (Canada). Resources are listed alphabetically by title. Each listing includes general bibliographic information, including catalogue number, appropriate grade…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, German, Instructional Materials, Library Catalogs

Schonenberg, Nancy; Heughebaert, Els – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 1996
Discusses the production of multimedia language learning systems based on the "form-to-content" movement designed to meet Belgium's multilingual criteria. Presents research aimed at reversing this movement into "content-into-form": i.e., starting from existing contents, how can the potentiality of a system be conceptualized in…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Computer Software, Databases, Foreign Countries
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Hamburg (Germany). Inst. for Education. – 1999
Because of the significant political implications of first and second language policy, many decision-makers have been reluctant to review language policy in the context of literacy work. Issues that must be considered include the following: whether mother tongue literacy should be a precondition for introduction of a second language in…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Bilingualism, Developing Nations