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Rebecca Adami; Liz Adams Lyngbäck – Human Rights Education Review, 2024
In this paper we conduct a poststructural discourse analysis inspired by Carol Bacchi's 'What's the problem represented to be?' (WRP) approach. We explore what kinds of problems are formulated in preschool educational policy on multilingualism, and what underlying assumptions underlie the dominant discourse on language proficiency in Sweden.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Preschool Education, Educational Policy
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Alfred S. Y. Lee; Wing Kai Fung; Kevin Kien Hoa Chung; Jesus Alfonso Daep Datu; Ryan Yat Ming Cheung – Psychology in the Schools, 2025
Limited research has examined the well-being of international preschool teachers, while intervention targeting their well-being is even rarer. The objective of this study was to examine the effectiveness of a 2-month EASP (i.e., Early Advancement in Social-Emotional Health and Positivity) positive psychological intervention program based on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, International Schools, Foreign Nationals
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He, Ye; Ouyang, Qiuyu; Zhang, Hanxuan – Educational Research and Development Journal, 2022
To support the increasing numbers of Chinese language programs in the United States, there is a need to recruit and support highly qualified teachers. In this study, we described an online professional learning community (PLC) among a small group of Kindergarten Chinese teachers. All the teachers were visiting teachers with prior teaching…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Second Language Learning, Communities of Practice, Chinese
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Soo Kyoung Kwak – English Teaching, 2023
Using a conversation analysis (CA) framework, this study investigated how kindergarten-aged learners took initiative during classroom interactions through multimodal communication resources. Over a thirteen-week period, data was collected from kindergarten English classroom interactions between two male native English-speaking teachers (NESTs) and…
Descriptors: Intermode Differences, Learning Modalities, Kindergarten, English (Second Language)
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Tum, Danyal Oztas – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2015
This article argues that nonnative preservice teachers are just as susceptible to foreign language anxiety as are inexperienced language learners, a claim carrying important implications for the EFL classroom. The results of the study described in this article indicate that anxious preservice teachers experience significant levels of language…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction, Anxiety
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Dora Ho; Haze Lam – International Journal of Educational Management, 2014
Purpose: The function of early childhood education (ECE) has shifted from mothering to nurturing child development in Hong Kong. Teaching in kindergartens seems to be more attractive to men nowadays. The purpose of this paper is to explore the issues of male participation in ECE through a case study of a local kindergarten.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Males, Early Childhood Teachers