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Halitoglu, Vedat – Participatory Educational Research, 2021
This study tried to determine the errors in writing samples to clarify the proficiency and deficiency of writing in the mother tongue of Turkish children who live in France. Participants in the study included 25 students who studied Turkish and Turkish culture at the level of primary and secondary public schools in Lyon, France. In the research,…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Error Patterns, Bilingual Students, Elementary School Students
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Kim, Mi Song – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2011
Based on a three-year ethnographic study, in such nested contexts involving six Korean-immigrant families, one regular French classroom, one private English institute, and one Korean church in Montreal, Canada, this study explores how the literacy practices and strategies of culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) learners were influenced and…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Research Methodology, Written Language, Multilingualism
TRANEL, 1982
This issue contains proceedings of a colloquium on linguistics at the University of Neuchatel: (1) "Propositions epistemologiques pour une etude du bilinguisme (Epistemological Propositions for a Study of Bilingualism)," by B. Py; (2) "Comment on di ca? Prolegomenes a une etude de la composante semantique du langage des migrants (How Do You Say…
Descriptors: Adults, Bilingualism, Children, Dialect Studies
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Loewenberg, Monica; Wass, Bob – Comparative Education, 1997
Compares educational policies and practices related to developing the linguistic competence of young immigrants in France and England, with particular reference to Toulouse and the London borough of Brent. Discusses segregationist versus integrationist approaches, effectiveness of second-language instruction, and provision of mother-tongue…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Comparative Education, Educational Policy, Elementary Education
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Leman, Johan – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1997
Discusses a project in the Flemish Brussels, Belgium educational community that seeks to provide a bicultural and trilingual curriculum that includes the language and culture of allocthonous children. Successful transfer to secondary education is discussed as is the importance of additive mother-tongue education and involving parents in what goes…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Dutch, Economic Factors, Elementary Secondary Education
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Fazio, Lucy L.; Stevens, Florence – Applied Linguistics, 1994
Examined the influence of 4 variables (supplementary mother-tongue instruction, length of residence in the host country, self-esteem, and schools) on the French oral comprehension and expression of 137 minority language immigrant children in 4 Montreal elementary schools. Results found that supplementary mother-tongue instruction did not…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries
Cetinsoy, Melih – 1983
Four years of activities (1978-82) of Hajitkoum (Migrant Cultural Action Group), a predominantly Moroccan multicultural group of young immigrants based in a suburb of Brussels, are described. The group has the ultimate goal of providing the immigrant community with cadres, drawn from its young generations, who will be able to take on political and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Arabic, Case Studies, Code Switching (Language)
Lo Bianco, Joseph, Ed. – VOX: The Journal of the Australian Advisory Council on Languages and Multicultural Education, 1991
This document consists of the three issues of the serial "VOX" published in 1989-1991. Major articles in these issues include: "The Original Languages of Australia"; "UNESCO and Universal Literacy"; "Language Shift and Maintenance in Torres Strait"; "Maintaining and Developing Italian in…
Descriptors: Asian Studies, Bilingual Education, Certification, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Eurydice, 2004
The national contributions contained in this paper and on the Eurydice website formed the basis for the comparative study on the integration at school of immigrant children in Europe. Each contribution has exactly the same structure with four main sections entitled as follows: (1) National definitions and demographic context of immigration; (2)…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Pilot Projects, Foreign Countries, Educational Change