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Direct linkStoewer, Kirsten; Musk, Nigel – Classroom Discourse, 2019
This paper examines how unplanned vocabulary work arises out of students' talk. Furthermore, we show how the teacher and students jointly contribute towards the ensuing teaching trajectories, whereby the vocabulary items are turned into 'teachables', i.e. interactionally emergent objects of explicit teaching. In doing so, we also explore what…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, English Instruction, Native Language Instruction, Language Usage
Schwartz, Mila, Ed. – Springer, 2022
This is the first international and interdisciplinary handbook to offer a comprehensive and an in-depth overview of findings from contemporary research, theory, and practice in early childhood language education in various parts of the world and with different populations. The contributions by leading scholars and practitioners are structured to…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Language Acquisition, Child Development
van Gelderen, Ben; Guthadjaka, Kathy – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2019
In the famous Djuranydjura story from North-East Arnhem Land, when the visiting 'Macassan' offers the Yol?u ancestral dog rice, shoes and blankets, he rejects them all, in favour of his own land and resources. At Gäwa homeland on Elcho Island, this powerful story is reinterpreted to include the arrival of balanda (white) teachers, and their focus…
Descriptors: Malayo Polynesian Languages, Literacy Education, Cultural Influences, Foreign Countries
Ganuza, Natalia; Hedman, Christina – Applied Linguistics, 2019
This study investigates if participation in mother tongue instruction (henceforth MTI) impacts the biliteracy proficiency of young bilinguals, drawing on examples from Somali-Swedish bilinguals and Somali MTI in a Swedish school context. In the study, biliteracy was operationalized as reading proficiency and vocabulary knowledge in two languages,…
Descriptors: Native Language Instruction, Swedish, Reading Comprehension, Correlation
Cormier, Marianne; Bourque, Jimmy; Jolicoeur, Manon – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2014
This study explores early francization models for a linguistic minority currently struggling to preserve its language. The French Acadians of New Brunswick, Canada, represent 30% of the province's total population, yet their numbers and their linguistic vitality are decreasing. New Brunswick has two public school systems: the English language…
Descriptors: French, Language Minorities, Language Maintenance, Foreign Countries
Lu, Chan; Koda, Keiko – Heritage Language Journal, 2011
Studies on monolingual children have shown that home language and literacy support is crucial in children's early literacy acquisition. However, such support has not been examined as thoroughly among bilingual children, including heritage speakers. This study investigated the effect of home language and literacy support on important precursors of…
Descriptors: Phonological Awareness, Monolingualism, Emergent Literacy, Vocabulary Development
