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Melissa van der Elst-Koeiman; Eliane Segers; Ronald Severing; Ludo Verhoeven – Journal of Multilingual Education Research, 2025
This study examined how Papiamento and Dutch attitude and home literacy environment of 168 children in fourth grade of the post-colonial Dutch Caribbean, predicted L1 and L2 reading literacy in sixth grade. Overall, children had higher scores for reading literacy in L1 Papiamento as compared with L2 Dutch. They showed more positive attitudes…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Indo European Languages, Literacy, Native Language
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Sun, Baoqi; Loh, Chin Ee; Bakar, Mukhlis Abu; Vaish, Viniti – Language Policy, 2023
This study investigated and compared family language policies (FLPs) from the perspectives of two groups of Singaporean bilingual children: 2,971 English-Chinese and 780 English-Malay children (aged 9-11 years). It also examined how different FLP components -- namely, language beliefs, practices, and management -- influenced their leisure reading…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Recreational Reading, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Yu, Wen Hsuan; Thompson, Eustace G. – Journal for Leadership and Instruction, 2021
Second language anxiety is an emotional reaction that diminishes second language learners' academic performance. Researchers have identified cognitive and affective factors as contributors to students' classroom anxiety reactions, yet few studies have examined the concurrent effect of those factors. This study employed survey questionnaires to…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Anxiety
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Kircher, Ruth – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
The study presented here is the first empirical investigation of the patterns and predictors of the intergenerational transmission of French in Quebec. An online questionnaire was used to gather data from 274 parents from different mother tongue (L1) groups: L1 French, L1 English, L1 French and English, and L1 Other. The results show that L1…
Descriptors: Language Planning, French, Parent Attitudes, Native Language
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Lou, Nigel Mantou; Noels, Kimberly A. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
Internalizing Western culture can facilitate English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) learners' motivation to learn and confidence to use English. However, the role of heritage cultural internalization and the interactive impact of Western and heritage cultural internalizations on English learning are unclear. We surveyed 172 EFL students from Macao…
Descriptors: Cultural Background, Cultural Influences, Asian Culture, Western Civilization
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Otwinowska, Agnieszka; Meir, Natalia; Ringblom, Natalia; Karpava, Sviatlana; La Morgia, Francesca – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
We examined factors determining parental success in transmitting heritage language (HL) and literacy in Russian-speaking migrant families of comparable socioeconomic status (SES) in Cyprus, Ireland, Israel and Sweden. A total of 345 Russian speakers completed a questionnaire about their language use and home language practices. Of those, we chose…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Cross Cultural Studies, Russian, Parent Child Relationship
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Schmid, Monika S. – Language Teaching, 2016
Language attrition research has developed in several clearly delimited phases spanning, roughly, each of the three decades between 1982 and 2012 (see Kopke & Schmid 2004 for a more detailed overview and analysis). The first phase was an era of stocktaking, with a number of symposia, collected volumes and special issues of journals. All of…
Descriptors: Language Skill Attrition, Native Language, Language Skills, Educational Research
Schachter, Rachel E.; Spear, Caitlin F.; Piasta, Shayne B.; Justice, Laura M.; Logan, Jessica A. R. – Grantee Submission, 2016
In this study, we investigated how multiple types of knowledge and beliefs, along with holding an early childhood-related degree and teaching experience were linked to amounts of early childhood educators' language and literacy instruction. Quantile regression was used to estimate associations between these variables along a continuum of language…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs