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Katja Lenz; Andreas Obersteiner; Gerald Wittmann – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2024
Students' proficiency in the language of instruction is essential for their mathematical learning. Accordingly, language-responsive instruction, which includes adapting teaching material to students' language needs, is thought to promote mathematical learning, particularly for students with lower levels of proficiency in the language of…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Multilingual Materials, Middle School Mathematics, Grade 7
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Christiana K. Kfouri; Marjorie W. Rowe – Rural Educator, 2024
Multilingual learners (MLs) represent a substantial, growing segment of the PreK--12 population, including in rural areas. Several forces contribute to the increase of ML students in rural schools (e.g., immigrant labor, refugee crises). As we undergo a major cultural shift from a society that was (misguidedly) viewed as monolingual to one that is…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Rural Schools, Curriculum Development, Teacher Education
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Sultan Baa; Nurul Maghfirah; Helen Borland – International Journal of Language Education, 2023
This article presents analysis and discussion of research data focusing on the students' attitudes and perceptions of EMI program implementation strategies in the secondary schools level in South Sulawesi Province. Three Public International Standard Schools that run EMI and non-EMI Programs were selected as sample of the study. The data has been…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction, Secondary School Students, Student Attitudes
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Kufakunesu Zano; Mafemani Joseph Baloyi – Acta Educationis Generalis, 2025
Introduction: Today, classes made up of learners with different linguistic backgrounds are a reality in many countries, including South Africa. Thus, this study was driven by the need to explore the various preconditions that must be met for the inclusion of home languages in an English First Additional Language context in the Further Education…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Native Language, Language of Instruction
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Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2024
In this contribution, I reflect on how multilingual pedagogies can be added to STEM and S.T.E.M. practices, in what could be called a "double-crossing": on the one hand, crossing linguistic boundaries and, on the other, crossing specific subject knowledge. Based on a content analysis of teachers' interviews referring to their pedagogical…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Multilingualism, Teaching Methods, Language Usage
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Çigdem Bozdag; Yasemin Karakasoglu – Global Studies of Childhood, 2024
Digital media provide easy access to media content in multiple languages from local, national, and transnational contexts. This accessibility of diverse content enables young people in the migration society to develop multilingual and transnational media repertoires: they have the option to continuously and strategically navigate between different…
Descriptors: Multilingual Materials, Foreign Countries, Media Education, Multimedia Materials
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Song, Kwangok; Cho, Byeong-Young – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
Bilingual adolescents actively participate in literacy practices on the multilingual Internet. However, research has paid little attention to these readers' use of their linguistic knowledge and skills as they choose and learn from multilingual resources on the Internet. With think-aloud protocols, this study examined how Korean-English bilingual…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Middle School Students, Early Adolescents, Immigrants
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Snitynsky, Ryan B.; Rose, Kerry; Pegg, Jerine M. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2019
Since 2015, a partnership between the Canadian Glycomics Network and the University of Alberta's Centre for Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education has provided opportunities for high-school teachers to immerse themselves in academic research environments. Drawing upon this experience, the teacher participants have created a library of…
Descriptors: Secondary School Science, Science Instruction, Partnerships in Education, Chemistry
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Inmaculada Gómez Soler – Urban Education, 2024
Supporting nontraditional students within the student lifecycle is one of the major challenges faced by urban universities. This study presents a pedagogical intervention in which a group of Hispanic students participated in an engaged learning project with a bilingual newspaper. Findings indicate that this project motivated students to complete…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Guided Pathways, Hispanic American Students, Urban Schools
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Wedin, Åsa; Aho, Erica Bomström – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2019
The aim of this article is to develop knowledge about recently arrived students' agency in learning science in upper secondary school in Sweden. The material was created through observations of science lessons and stimulated-recall interviews with four students. Findings showed that the multimodal and multilingual practices students were involved…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Secondary School Students, Immigrants
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French, Mei – Language and Education, 2016
In the context of increasing linguistic and cultural diversity in Australian schools, it is important to consider the value of students' multilingual resources for learning. This paper reports on an ethnographic case study conducted in an Australian metropolitan secondary school where the student body represented more than 40 cultures and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Multilingual Materials, Educational Policy
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Liu, Yongcan; Fisher, Linda; Forbes, Karen; Evans, Michael – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2017
This paper aims to define the knowledge base of teaching in linguistically diverse secondary schools in England. Based on extensive interviews with the teachers across two schools, the paper identifies a range of good practices centred on flexibility and differentiation. These include diversifying teaching resources by using bilingual materials…
Descriptors: Knowledge Base for Teaching, Multilingualism, Classroom Techniques, Secondary Schools
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Jantjies, Mmaki; Joy, Mike – Educational Technology & Society, 2015
Multilingual classrooms in developing countries are often challenged by a lack of digital resources and technology which supports their multilingual learning process. "Code-switching" is a phenomenon common to multilingual schools where learners are taught in a language which is not their first language. In these environments,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Mathematics Education, Code Switching (Language)
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Tseng, Fan-ping – English Language Teaching, 2009
This study examined 38 EFL senior high school students' "Yahoo!" online dictionary look-up behavior. In a language laboratory, the participants read an article on a reading sheet, underlined any words they did not know, looked up their unknown words in "Yahoo!" online bilingual dictionary, and wrote down the definitions of…
Descriptors: Dictionaries, English (Second Language), High School Seniors, Student Behavior