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Louward Allen M. Zubiri – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The dissertation presents a pioneering investigation into child speech among Bikolano children. It aims to address the underdescription and underdocumentation of Child Bikol as spoken in the Philippines. Bikol, an Austronesian macrolanguage, often coexists with more dominant languages, making Bikolano children both emergent multilinguals and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Malayo Polynesian Languages, Native Language, Multilingualism
Zhong, Jing Crystal – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation contributes new data to the debate on the source and manner of transfer in third language (L3) acquisition. The "L1 Status Factor" (L1SF, e.g., Hermas, 2010; Leung, 2002; Lozano-Pozo, 2003) maintains that the transfer source is the native language (L1), whereas the "L2 Status Factor" (L2SF, Bardel & Falk,…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Mandarin Chinese, Language Acquisition, Native Language
Iratishe Reuben Madaki – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Translanguaging research among multilingual students has received considerable attention across different contexts of practice. The most robust contexts in translanguaging research have been the classroom contexts between teacher and students. This study examined the affordances of translanguaging spaces "between class sessions" in…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Native Language, Second Language Learning, Language Usage
Mohammad Anisur Rahman – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation study investigates the translanguaging interactions among teachers and students who share a common non-English language and what these exchanges might entail. It finds that multilinguals often hesitate to bring out their non-English languages in academic settings as they fear it (translanguging) may result in othering them in…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Language Usage, Teacher Student Relationship, Multilingualism
Odelia Sonia Caliz – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This qualitative study examined four Belizean primary teachers' multilingual pedagogies in language arts instruction. The research question, what multilingual pedagogies did Belizean primary teachers use in the Language Arts classrooms guides this multiple case study. Using a thematic analysis in the data analysis process results in the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Language Arts, Code Switching (Language), Native Language
Shields Lysiak, Lauren – ProQuest LLC, 2023
When refugees are forced to flee their country, they leave for a number of reasons. Some refugees resettle in the United States, in Buffalo, New York. Buffalo is home to a large number of Burmese refugees over the years and some of those refugees are children. Schools can play an important role in children's lives and school administrators can…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Refugees, School Role
Emily Voegler – ProQuest LLC, 2021
With an increase in multilingual learners in U.S. public schools, there is an imperative to understand the language practices, ideologies, and pedagogies within culturally and linguistically sustaining heritage language programs inside schools. Building on principles of translanguaging as a theory of practical language (Garcia, 2009; Li, 2018),…
Descriptors: Heritage Education, English Language Learners, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Hwang, Jihye – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The number of multilingual international students in post-secondary mathematics classrooms in the United States is increasing. As language is related to students' access to mathematics learning and their (mathematics) identities, it shapes their experiences as a doer of mathematics. However, as multilingual international students move to the…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Foreign Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Simon L. Peters – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Increasingly, speakers of minoritized languages around the world are becoming uprooted due to economic pressures, political forces, and environmental destabilization. As communities leave their traditional homelands, they often experience accelerated language shift. Although youth are in a critical position to further transmit their languages to…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, American Indian Culture, Language Maintenance, Immigrants
Murphy, Erin Reed – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The study utilizes a case study approach to explore how a non-linguistically diverse suburban school district communicates and engages with multilingual families' and the families' experiences and perceptions of the district's efforts. The study is grounded in Critical Race Theory including the use of counterstories and composite narratives, and…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, School Districts, Family School Relationship, Critical Race Theory
Erin Lane – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation is rooted in three strands of scholarship: translingual approaches to writing (Horner et al., 2011), social design-based experiments (Gutierrez & Vossoughi, 2010) as a subset of participatory design-based research (Bang & Vossoughi, 2016), and the Learning on the Move framework centering embodied and mobile epistemologies…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Grade 6, COVID-19, Pandemics
Jennifer A. Arcila – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Preservice teachers need to be prepared to meet the diverse linguistic and cultural needs of their students in terms of both their content and language learning. One way they can support multilingual students is using students' home language in the classroom, regardless of whether the preservice teacher speaks the language or not. Biliteracy and…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Bilingualism, Language Attitudes
Natasha Vernooij – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation investigates how bilinguals use their two grammars to comprehend written intra-sentential codeswitches. I focus on adjective/noun constructions in Spanish and English where I manipulate the congruence of grammatical word order in the two languages across the codeswitch boundary. This allows me to test three codeswitching…
Descriptors: Spanish, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Native Language
Rowe, Lindsey Wells – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Emergent bilingual students in the U.S. often attend English-medium schools where their bilingual language resources are ignored and dismissed. Research suggests this is harmful for students, but little empirical work has examined how teachers in English-dominant schools can support students' biliteracy. To address this problem, this qualitative…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Elementary School Students, Writing Instruction, Writing Processes
Samira M. Edres – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study examined the effects of three subtitle conditions on English vocabulary learning, form recognition and meaning recall, from TED Talks videos while controlling for vocabulary size and initial knowledge of the target words. The participants, 105 Libyan students (16 males and 89 females) at intermediate English proficiency level, were…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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