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Pitambar Paudel – Issues in Educational Research, 2024
This study explores the multifaceted experiences and perspectives of teachers, students, and parents regarding the implementation of English medium instruction (EMI) in community schools in Nepal. Utilising a qualitative case study research design, semistructured interviews were conducted with key stakeholders to uncover the challenges and…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Language of Instruction
Daly, Nicola; Barbour, Julie – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
The idea of employing culturally and linguistically appropriate resources to address disparate literacy levels and to maintain the languages and cultures of communities in the Pacific has been presented by academics from different disciplines. In 2012, a National Language Policy was endorsed in Vanuatu, accommodating the endangered vernacular…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Culturally Relevant Education, Language Usage, Native Language
Idoiaga Mondragon, Nahia; Orcasitas-Vicandi, Maria; Roman Etxebarrieta, Gorka – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
This paper focuses on the use of language during the emergency eLearning period due to COVID-19 in the Basque Autonomous Community. Specifically, the main objective of this study is to analyze how the use of Basque (local minority language), English (foreign language), and Spanish (local majority language) changed during this period among children…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Spanish, Language Minorities, Language Usage
Administration for Children & Families, 2019
The American Indian and Alaska Native Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey 2015 (AI/AN FACES 2015) is the first national descriptive study of children and families enrolled in Head Start programs operated by federally recognized tribes (known as Region XI AI/AN Head Start). Region XI programs incorporate their unique history, community…
Descriptors: American Indians, Alaska Natives, American Indian Education, Early Intervention
Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi; Jafari, Rasoul – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2021
The study explores language maintenance and shift patterns from a family language policy perspective in Azerbaijani-Farsi bilingual families in the City of Zanjan, Iran. The city is the capital of Zanjan province which is surrounded by Azerbaijani, Kurdish, and Farsi speaking provinces giving it a specific demographic make-up to explore language…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Language Attitudes, Language Role, Language Minorities
Ó Duibhir, Pádraig; Ní Thuairisg, Laoise – AILA Review, 2019
There has been a long history of early Irish language learning in Ireland as a result of Government policy to promote greater use of Irish. All children learn Irish in school from age 4-18 years. The majority learn Irish as a subject, typically for 30-40 minutes per day, and the levels of competence achieved are mostly disappointing. Approximately…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Language Usage, Language Minorities, Language Maintenance
Gkaintartzi, Anastasia; Kiliari, Angeliki; Tsokalidou, Roula – Cogent Education, 2016
This paper presents data from two studies--a nationwide quantitative research and an ethnographic study--on immigrant parents' perspectives about heritage language maintenance and education in Greek state schools. The quantitative data come from a large-scale questionnaire survey, which aimed at the investigation of the needs and requirements for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Statistical Analysis, Ethnography
Thapa, Chura Bahadur; Adamson, Bob – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2018
Educational issues in relation to ethnicity and language education policies have been underexplored in Asian contexts. In particular, issues related to ethnic and linguistic minority students have not received much attention in the post-colonial context of Hong Kong. This paper highlights challenges and tensions faced by Nepali ethnic minority…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Ethnicity, Educational Policy
Harrison, Michelle Anne – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2016
This article examines the current situation of regional language bilingual primary education in Alsace and contends that the regional language presents a special case in the context of France. The language comprises two varieties: Alsatian, which traditionally has been widely spoken, and Standard German, used as the language of reference and…
Descriptors: German, Language Variation, Bilingual Education, Elementary School Students
Gkaintartzi, Anastasia; Chatzidaki, Aspasia; Tsokalidou, Roula – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2014
This article examines views of Albanian immigrant parents regarding home-language maintenance in Greece. It aims to reveal language ideologies in relation to broader ideologies about schooling and education. Following a qualitative interpretative approach, we conducted semi-structured individual and group interviews with 19 parents of bilingual…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Native Language, Language Maintenance, Foreign Countries
Bright, Nicola; Barnes, Alex; Hutchings, Jessica – New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 2013
This is the first report from a 3-year (2012-2015) kaupapa Maori research project that investigates how best to support the continuity of reo Maori development of whanau as they transition between kohanga reo, kura kaupapa primary, wharekura, secondary and beyond. It aims to provide useful information about the reo Maori education options that are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Malayo Polynesian Languages, Immersion Programs, Language Maintenance
Berdan, Robert; And Others – 1982
The survey questionnaire and a description of the coding system used for analyzing the data collected in a survey of Cherokee language and education are presented. The survey was designed to study language use, bilingualism, and education in the Cherokee community. The survey encompassed 198 Cherokee children between the ages of 5 and 14 who…
Descriptors: American Indians, Bilingualism, Cherokee, Elementary Secondary Education