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Mi Yung Park; Lee Jin Choi – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
This study explores Vietnamese marriage-migrant mothers' changing attitudes toward heritage language (HL) education in South Korea through narratives collected in an interview setting over a period of four years. The findings show that while the mothers placed some value on HL education, they initially prioritized Korean at home because they…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Native Language, Language Attitudes, Attitude Change
Melissa Venegas – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This research investigated how a Critical Sociocultural Linguistics Literacy (CriSoLL) approach to authentic materials supports student literacy in a mixed Spanish heritage language (SHL) and additional language (L2) Spanish intermediate course at the university level. Using a qualitative approach (Cho, 2018; Esposito & Evans-Winters, 2021)…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Literacy, Native Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Ariel Robert C. Ponce; Rochelle Irene G. Lucas – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Mother Tongue Education (MTE) in the Philippines seeks to educate learners from kindergarten to 3rd grade using their mother tongues. However, in Linguistically Diverse Contexts (LDCs) where multiple mother tongues are spoken, a lingua franca is nominated as the alternative MOI. Against this backdrop, our study explores the language attitudes of…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Native Language, Multilingualism, Native Language Instruction
Gabrielle Yocupicio – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation explored the perspectives of stakeholders within a university-level Spanish Heritage Language (SHL) program in Arizona, focusing on their language ideologies and critical language education efforts. The study, rooted in Critical Language Awareness (CLA) and Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy (CSP) frameworks, challenges deficit-based…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Universities, Spanish, Native Language
Yvonne Pedria Velasco – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2025
Drawing on Sutton and Levinson's Socio-cultural Approach to policy, this study explores the experiences and collective language beliefs of 25 teachers implementing the Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education (MTBMLE) policy in two urban Philippine school districts. Mixed methods were used to understand policy enactment and teacher perspectives.…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Native Language Instruction, Native Language, Second Language Learning
Yousra Abourehab – Applied Linguistics, 2025
This article examines teacher ideologies and multilingual practices in teaching Arabic as a heritage language in the USA. Using indexicality and its nexus to language ideologies, it identifies the key index values assigned to Standard Arabic (SA) and how these shape teacher positioning for teaching Arabic heritage. The article also analyzes the…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Language Attitudes, Heritage Education, Arabic
Admire Mhindu – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2025
Mother Tongue Education (MTE), despite being the most reliable method of learning, is a challenge for the African countries that fail to implement MTE policies due to lack of resources, stakeholders' attitudes towards mother tongues, and lack of political will. Keeping in view the plight of the primary implementers of such policies, hence, this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, African Languages, Native Language Instruction, Language Minorities
Murray, Clíona; Lynch, Andrea; Flynn, Niamh; Davitt, Emer – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2023
In newly multilingual communities, where the language of education can no longer be assumed to be the home language of students, debates around language education policy can reflect broader sociocultural and political assumptions. As Ireland has become increasingly diverse in recent decades, the core compulsory status of the Irish language has…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Minorities, Native Language Instruction, Irish
Ssentanda, Medadi E.; Wenske, Ruth S. – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2023
This article seeks to understand the challenges of literacy acquisition under the Thematic Curriculum reform in Uganda, which introduced Mother Tongue instruction in lower primary. We compare teachers' perspectives from two central districts using Luganda and two peripheral districts using Ateso, drawing on a multi-layered approach to understand…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Native Language, Native Language Instruction
Csanád Bodó; Blanka Barabás; Isabela Botezatu; Noémi Fazakas; Judit Gáspár; János Imre Heltai; Petteri Laihonen; Veronika Lajos; Gergely Szabó; Csercsetáre-Invitees – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2025
The participatory approach is becoming more widespread in the social sciences and is also starting to take hold in the study of language in society. However, there has been little research done on how critical sociolinguistics can be linked to research that is based on the involvement and engagement of as many participants as possible at a level…
Descriptors: Participatory Research, Sociolinguistics, Language Research, Language Attitudes
Anu Pandey – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2024
Podcasts are a unique media that have been used in Indigenous and endangered language communities in the form of Indigenous radio podcasts, instructional websites, or tools to aid classroom instruction. A podcast called Rituals of Kanauji speakers was created in Kanauji, a low-resource Indian language variety. Using this case study in Kanauji, I…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Audio Equipment, Computer Software, Second Language Learning
Salbrina Sharbawi; Noor Hasharina Hassan – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Studies on Brunei Malay have made inconsistent findings: while some have asserted that this variety is thriving and is in no way endangered, others have found that its use is now waning. As the dynamics of family speech can inform what is happening linguistically at the community level, this study seeks to investigate the family language policies…
Descriptors: Indonesian Languages, Language Usage, Native Language, English (Second Language)
Ke Li; Lulu Lun; Pingping Hu – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
Amid the ongoing discussion about the potential of LLMs (Large Language Models) to facilitate language learning, there has been a broad spectrum of views in academia. However, little is known about the different viewpoints of students and what contributes to these differences. In light of this, this study adopts Q-methodology, a mixed-methods…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Language Attitudes, Affordances, Artificial Intelligence
Bazai, Zia ur Rehman; Manan, Syed Abdul; Pillai, Stefanie – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2023
The teaching of native languages is seen as being key to the development of cognitive skills, better academic performance in early grades and a resource for linguistic (re)vitalization and cultural revival. This study examines the institutional challenges in teaching and learning native languages in Pakistan. The study uses teachers' agency…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Native Language Instruction, Language Teachers
Brendan Walsh – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2023
In the two decades preceding Irish independence the Gaelic League (Conradh na Gaeilge, founded 1893), an organisation dedicated to the revival of the Irish language, campaigned to persuade both national and intermediate commissioners of education to reposition the language within the curriculum to reflect what the League believed was both its…
Descriptors: Irish, Language Maintenance, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education