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Jane P. Preston – in education, 2025
The purpose of this literature review is to describe the educational experiences of international students enrolled in English-medium postsecondary institutions. Because the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia currently host the largest international student populations globally, enrollment statistics for each country are…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Educational Experience, Foreign Students, College Students
Chang, Sin-Yi – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2021
The promotion of English medium instruction (EMI) in higher education has been a widely adopted institutional response to the forces of globalization in the 21st century. However, while EMI has received much enthusiasm in policy discourse, little research has been conducted to explore whether it effectively addresses the new demands of an…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, English, Affordances, Higher Education
Kuchah Kuchah; Laela Adamson; Aline Dorimana; Aloysie Uwizeyemariya; Alphonse Uworwabayeho; Lizzi O. Milligan – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This paper develops the notion of epistemic exclusion as a way of exploring the different types of silence and silencing that happen in English medium Rwandan classrooms. By focusing on classroom observations of teachers' pedagogic practices and the ways in which girls interact in the classrooms, we demonstrate how experiences of epistemic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction, English, Teaching Methods
Hong Shi – World Journal of Education, 2023
The present study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of teaching intervention for Chinese learners, who were English speakers who tended to focus on phonemic awareness, in learning Chinese. It also tried to examine the impacts of Chinese phonological and morphological awareness on their English language development. The study was conducted in…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Learning, Intervention, Instructional Effectiveness
Thomas Abram Jacobson – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Indigenous-language immersion (ILI) is a form of schooling where all, or nearly all, classroom instruction in every subject area is conducted in an Indigenous language. This dissertation comprises three case study comparisons of neighboring pairs of ILI and English-medium school programs. The first case study examines two elementary schools in the…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Language Maintenance, American Indian Students, Middle School Students
Xu, Chang; Di Lonardo Burr, Sabrina; Skwarchuk, Sheri-Lynn; Douglas, Heather; Lafay, Anne; Osana, Helena P.; Simms, Victoria; Wylie, Judith; Maloney, Erin A.; LeFevre, Jo-Anne – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2022
Canadian students enrolled in either French-immersion or English-instruction programs were followed from Grades 2 to 3 (M[subscript age] = 7.8 years to 8.9 years; N = 244; 55% girls). In each grade, students completed two mathematical tasks that required oral language processing (i.e., word-problem solving and number transcoding from dictation)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immersion Programs, French, English
Sinno, Samar; El Takach, Suzanne – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2020
The present study aims to determine the efficacy and relevancy of the two foreign language courses required for preparing elementary prospective teachers to teach Science and Mathematics in English or French. The study is a mixed one relying on quantitative data collected from the rating scales and the 5-point Likert-type Scale Questionnaires…
Descriptors: Relevance (Education), Instructional Effectiveness, Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers
Charamba, Erasmos; Zano, Kufakunesu – Bilingual Research Journal, 2019
The study sought to investigate the role played by language in the academic performance of science students at a high school in the Free State province, South Africa who are taught through a language different from their mother tongue. The paper reports on the decisive mantle language plays in the comprehension and subsequent scholastic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Secondary School Science, Chemistry
Kaigama, Abdullahi; Ciroma, Zainab Ibrahim; Also, Ali Mohammed – Online Submission, 2019
This study surveys the causes of massive failure in Senior School Certificate Examination. (SSCE). It investigates the causes of students' massive failure in English language in 47 Secondary Schools in Yobe state. It seeks to find out the major elements that bring about persistent and consistent setback to students' success in their final year of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English, Language Skills, Secondary School Students
Markey, Michael – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2020
We focus here on the obstacles students face when learning to read in their second language, specifically in contexts where the second language is taught as a school subject or used as a medium of instruction (immersion). Qualitative studies in these areas have highlighted strategy deployment and approaches to constructing meaning as key variables…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Reading Tests, Barriers, Second Language Learning
Ogunsiji, Yemi; Ojo, J. O.; Farinde, R. O. – English Language Teaching, 2015
In any society, the role of language has always been a very vital and incontrovertible one. The bible made us to understand that at the beginning, there was word and the word was with God and God was the word. The world and all that we have therein were created through word. This makes one to wonder about the power in language today. At all levels…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Sciences, Scientific Methodology, Interpersonal Communication
Van Laere, E.; Braak, J. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2017
Text-to-speech technology can act as an important support tool in computer-based learning environments (CBLEs) as it provides auditory input, next to on-screen text. Particularly for students who use a language at home other than the language of instruction (LOI) applied at school, text-to-speech can be useful. The CBLE E-Validiv offers content in…
Descriptors: Assistive Technology, Bilingualism, Computer Assisted Instruction, Language of Instruction
Bolton, Kingsley; Botha, Werner; Bacon-Shone, John – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
Within the Asian region, Singapore has long been seen as a leader within the field of higher education, with an unmatched record of success in implementing English-medium instruction (EMI) at all levels of education, including colleges and universities. This present study reports on a large-scale survey carried out at one of Singapore's major…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Language of Instruction, English
Alinea, Allan L.; Naylor, Wade – Physics Education, 2015
Since October 2010, the Chemistry-Biology Combined Major Program, an international course taught in English at Osaka University, has been teaching small classes (no more than 20 in size). We present data from the Force Concept Inventory (FCI) given to first-year classical mechanics students (N = 47 students over three years) pre and post score,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mechanics (Physics), Science Instruction, College Science
Gordon, Steven Lawrence; Harvey, Jaqueline – Language and Education, 2019
A key factor in providing quality education is the main language of instruction (M-LoI). This creates a challenging situation for education policymakers in post-colonial multilingual countries such as South Africa. Language-in-education policies must valorise indigenous languages and redress their exclusion in past education systems while ensuring…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Language of Instruction, Foreign Countries, Postcolonialism