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Janica Nordstrom; Ken Cruickshank; Emily Li Bai – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2024
Community language schools provide language and cultural education to young people. Forming a key education sector worldwide with an estimated two million enrolments, these community-run, out-of-hours schools nonetheless tend to be marginalised by 'mainstream' education and 'mainstream' educational research. There has been a dramatic increase in…
Descriptors: Community Schools, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Heritage Education
Kim, Hyunah; Burton, Jennifer Lynn; Ahmed, Tasneem; Bale, Jeff – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2020
Building on the recent studies revealing that official bilingualism policies in Canada are often used to reinforce a specific racial and linguistic order, this paper addresses the impact of these federal-level policies on education policies at the provincial level. From the policy genealogy perspective, we examine Ontario's Heritage Languages…
Descriptors: Heritage Education, Bilingualism, Official Languages, Educational Policy
Bliss, Bill – 1986
Two myths often surround discussions of literacy in the United States: (1) that the current school reform movement benefits minority students; and (2) that a technological and information age has emerged that requires new, higher literacy levels. Neither is accurate, for there is no economic imperative for the improvement of literacy, only an…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Economic Factors, Educational Needs, Elementary Secondary Education

Aparicio, Frances R. – Hispania, 1983
Problems are discussed and recommendations made for developing programs and materials for Spanish instruction of Spanish speakers. General and specific suggestions are made for material selection and class activities, including spelling, composition, self-editing, dialog writing, transcription, translation, student-teacher conferences, journals,…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Contrastive Linguistics, Cultural Awareness, Higher Education
Hoff, Gerd R. – 1995
Multicultural education in Germany has been profoundly affected by history and the consequences and burdens of war. As Germany has always understood itself to be a monocultural country, there was initially little room for unpopular multicultural approaches to school organization and curriculum. Depending on the political orientation of state…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Cultural Awareness, Disadvantaged Youth, Economic Factors
Jew, Victoria – 1986
With the rapid and dramatic influx of Asians of widely varying background to the United States, more comprehensive planning for literacy education will be increasingly important. Most research on literacy in English as a second language, particularly on transfer of learning from one language to another, focuses on groups with European language…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Classroom Techniques, Contrastive Linguistics, Educational Strategies
Reagan, Timothy – 1988
The "language struggle" has been a focus of disagreement throughout South Africa's educational history. In contemporary South Africa, the issue of the language used as a medium of instruction has been most controversial in black education, where the government's policy of initial native language instruction has been widely denounced as…
Descriptors: Afrikaans, Bilingualism, Black Education, Colonialism
Danesi, Marcel – 1986
Issues related to school instruction in students' heritage or ancestral language are discussed, particularly in regard to dialect-speaking children or children with some degree of competence in the language. The first chapter considers similarities and differences between second language instruction and heritage language education. The findings on…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Comparative Analysis, Correlation, Cultural Background