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Mitchell, Siân; Higgins, Andrea – Educational & Child Psychology, 2020
Aim(s): The number of deaf children and young people (CYP) being educated in inclusive mainstream settings rather than special schools has grown over recent years, however, this has not been without its challenges. This qualitative study aims to address a gap in the research literature by investigating what stakeholders consider to be the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Deafness, Language Usage, Family Environment
Wilson, George – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2023
This article compares the immersion-education systems in Brittany and Wales. The number of Welsh speakers is growing thanks to its well-developed immersion-education system. Brittany has a much less well-developed system and the number of Breton speakers is falling dramatically. Urgent action is needed if Breton is to survive. Using an approach…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Welsh, Comparative Education, Foreign Countries
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Selleck, Charlotte – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2016
This article reports on an ethnographic study carried out in three interrelated sites: two contrasting secondary schools and a Youth-Club (the principal focus of this article), in an area of southwest Wales. This article highlights the incongruence between the language at home and the language of the school and posits that the relationship between…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Multilingualism, Ethnography, Youth Clubs
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Jones, Bryn – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2017
This article examines the use of translanguaging as a pedagogical tool to support learning within bilingual classrooms in schools in Wales. Translanguaging is considered within non-pedagogic and pedagogic school contexts; hence, a distinction is made between universal and classroom translanguaging. Translanguaging has evoked debate surrounding the…
Descriptors: Bilingual Schools, Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Thomas, Enlli Môn; Apolloni, Dafydd; Lewis, Gwyn – Language and Education, 2014
Previous studies have demonstrated how primary-school-aged children learning a minority language at school revert to the use of their dominant L1 in peer-peer situations, both within and outside the classroom. Identifying the cause of this pattern is central to language policy strategies and initiatives across many minority language regions, and…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Interviews, Elementary School Students, Welsh
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Williams, Colin H. – Review of Research in Education, 2014
The Welsh language, which is indigenous to Wales, is one of six Celtic languages. It is spoken by 562,000 speakers, 19% of the population of Wales, according to the 2011 U.K. Census, and it is estimated that it is spoken by a further 200,000 residents elsewhere in the United Kingdom. No exact figures exist for the undoubted thousands of other…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Welsh, Foreign Countries, Language Usage
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Lyon, Jean – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1991
This paper reports the language use of some 400 mothers in North Wales. Factors associated with language use are examined, including cross-language partnerships, past educational medium, and situation. (25 references) (JL)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Fathers, Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction
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Lewis, W. Gwyn – AILA Review, 2008
In Wales, bilingual education in Welsh and English has an increasingly high profile and Wales shares international leadership of bilingual education policies and practices alongside other countries where bilingual education flourishes. Ever since the first designated Welsh-medium primary school was opened in 1939, Welsh-medium and bilingual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingual Education, Welsh, English
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Edwards, D. Gareth – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 1993
This paper describes Welsh-English bilingualism in compulsory (5-16) and noncompulsory education in Wales, in bilingual (Welsh medium) and ordinary (Welsh as a subject only) schools, and in society and the media. The historical and sociological context is presented, as well as government policies, past and present. (Contains one reference.) (JL)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Diachronic Linguistics, Elementary Secondary Education, English