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Bernard M. Barruga – Language Policy, 2025
This study aimed to explore the implementation of the Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE) policy by public elementary teachers in the Philippines through a case study approach. Specifically, the study sought to examine how three elementary teachers in one public school institution distinctively implement the MTB-MLE policy in…
Descriptors: Public School Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Nonstandard Dialects, Native Language Instruction
Priyanka Bose; Xuesong Gao; Sue Starfield; Nirukshi Perera – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2024
Family language policy (FLP) impacts the maintenance of heritage language(s) in the family domain, where parents play a crucial role in making language-related decisions for their children. Globalisation, immigration, the COVID-19 pandemic, and digital communication have all affected FLP. Studies are now calling for examining how dispersed…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Language Usage, Indo European Languages, Linguistic Theory
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Fei Tang; Raees Calafato – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2025
This article presents the findings from a study that explored how the language practices and management to which 156 students from universities in China reported being exposed at home, alongside their language beliefs, use of their entire linguistic repertoire when reading, listening, speaking, and writing at university, and emotions related to…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Family Environment, Multilingualism, Foreign Countries
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Olaug Strand – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2024
The "optimism hypothesis" claims that immigrant students do better in the Norwegian education system than their socioeconomic status would suggest, due to the strong educational aspirations that immigrant parents might have for their children. Grounded in an educational equity paradigm, this study aims to test this hypothesis by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Achievement, Achievement Tests, Grade 4
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Claudine Kirsch; Lisandre Bergeron-Morin – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
There is a consensus that home languages are the foundation on which to develop additional languages and that collaboration between homes and institutions of early childhood education and care (ECEC) can contribute to the development of children's language and literacy skills. Nevertheless, educators seem rarely to draw on multiple languages in…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Parent Child Relationship, Child Care Centers, Second Language Learning
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Gonzalez, Jorge E.; Liew, Jeffrey; Zou, Yali; Curtis, Gayle; Li, Danni – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2022
The primary aim of this study was to explore and understand Chinese American parents' language and literacy beliefs, perceptions, and practices with regard to their preschool-age children. Using a convergent parallel mixed-methods study design, parents (seven mothers and one father) were recruited from a community center in a large southern city…
Descriptors: Native Language, Chinese Americans, Language Maintenance, Language Skill Attrition
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Park, Hyejin; Cheatham, Gregory A.; Jimenez-Silva, Margarita – Young Exceptional Children, 2018
Home and English language learning is essential for young DLLs with disabilities. Early educators as well as parents and other caregivers can implement promising strategies to support home and second language development for young children who are DLLs. This article reviews the importance of adult (e.g., teacher, parent) feedback and language…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Bilingualism, Disabilities, Language Skills
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Haj-Broussard, Michelle; Keefer, Natalie; Hébert, Dustin; Grivet, Candice – NECTFL Review, 2019
Research on stakeholder perspectives in language immersion contexts is relatively new (Padron & Waxman, 2016; Whitacre, 2015). This current qualitative research examined perspectives of stakeholders at a mini-conference for immersion educators and administrators called Conversations in Immersion. The mini-conference encouraged immersion…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teacher Attitudes
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Chen, Emma – International Journal of Multicultural Education, 2021
The sudden burst of COVID-19 and the shift to remote schooling have posed a special challenge for families whose first language is not English. Engaging in a narrative inquiry, I tell stories of parents from three Chinese immigrant families and how they coped with young children's remote schooling during COVID. I present the challenges immigrant…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Distance Education
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Romanowski, Piotr – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
By adopting a tripartite FLP framework, this study aims to explore the agentive role of Polish-speaking fathers in heritage language maintenance. At the outset, it should be noted that as the theme of paternal agency has not been given much prominence in research, this paper delves into how Polish fathers of heteronormative families endeavour to…
Descriptors: Polish, Language Maintenance, Fathers, Parent Role
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Nuñez, Idalia – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2021
In the current anti-immigrant context, Latinx families, children, and communities experience language as a highly contested and surveilled practice with consequential effects. In this study, I drew on the concept of literacies of surveillance and translanguaging to examine how language was embodied and rationalized in the context of three homes of…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Immigration, Political Attitudes, Hispanic Americans
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Van Mensel, Luk – Language Policy, 2016
In the past decade, research on language policy has shifted from a top-down approach toward the inclusion of micro-political aspects and ethnographic approaches. In studies of bilingualism and bilingual acquisition the role of parents and parenting has always been mentioned as an important (although somewhat peripheral) factor. In this paper, our…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Language Planning, Foreign Countries, Bilingualism
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Wesely, Pamela M. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2018
This phenomenological study investigated the relationship between parenting and schooling for one parent whose home language was not the same as the language used in the school. The central question for this phenomenological inquiry was: What is it like to parent a child who is attending school in a language that differs from the home language?…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Family Environment, French, Language of Instruction
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Bezcioglu-Göktolga, Irem; Yagmur, Kutlay – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2018
In talking about family language policy in the Turkish immigration context in the Netherlands, teachers emerged as the key actors in shaping parental language choices and practices. Previous research has shown that teachers take a central role in the implementation of school language policy but there is not much research on the influence of…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Turkish, Native Language, Second Language Learning
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Prošic-Santovac, Danijela; Radovic, Danijela – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2018
This study investigated the agency of children, parents and teachers in a Serbian-English bilingual preschool. The focus was on uncovering the kind of agency each of these groups exercised in the process of language learning by examining the children's linguistic behaviour and the role that parents and teachers had in motivating children learning…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Preschool Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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