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Dieuwerke Rutgers – Language Awareness, 2024
Schools are increasingly using content and language integrated learning (CLIL) approaches to education, whereby the teaching of subject content and an additional language occurs in an integrated manner. While language and learning are inextricably linked and the rewards of CLIL many, integrated teaching requires a specialised professional…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Indo European Languages, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Mettewie, Laurence; Van Mensel, Luk – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2023
The aim of the present article is to provide an overview of the current state of affairs regarding foreign language education and bilingual education in the different parts of Belgium. In a brief historical contextualisation, we explain how language education in Belgium has been shaped by the country's political and economic history, which has led…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Content and Language Integrated Learning, Foreign Countries
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van der Walt, Christa – ELT Journal, 2022
In South Africa, English is used as a language of learning and teaching for most students from Grade 4 onwards. National policies have requirements for all teachers regarding language proficiency in English, and they also require all teachers from Grades R (pre-school) to 6 to be English language teachers. Because most teachers are not English…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Language Teachers
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Goossens, Sue – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
While much research has focused on how Western schools contain or silence the increasing multilingualism of their pupils, this paper investigates how a Dutch-medium school in Brussels has decided to take a different approach by branding itself as multilingual. Based on sociolinguistic-ethnographic fieldwork, it will show that teachers invested in…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Institutional Characteristics, Indo European Languages, Foreign Countries
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Sah, Pramod K. – Language Learning Journal, 2023
There is a dearth of knowledge on the emotional challenges content-area teachers in English-medium instruction (EMI) programmes face, and how they manage their emotions in their efforts to negotiate a top-down language policy. This paper examines the entangled emotional experiences of EMI content-area teachers in Nepal's school education. In…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Language of Instruction, Language Attitudes, Content and Language Integrated Learning
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Meunier, Fanny; Hendrikx, Isa; Bulon, Amélie; Van Goethem, Kristel; Naets, Hubert – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2023
Whilst the links between learner corpus research (LCR) and Second Language Acquisition (SLA) have long been debated, McEnery et al. (2019. "Corpus Linguistics, Learner Corpora, and SLA: Employing Technology to Analyze Language Use." Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 39: 74-92. doi:10.1017/S0267190519000096) claim that learner corpus…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Immersion Programs, Computational Linguistics, Content and Language Integrated Learning
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Palacios-Hidalgo, Francisco Javier; Huertas-Abril, Cristina A.; Gómez-Parra, María Elena – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2021
European countries and their regions are trying to develop quality foreign language policies to help citizens become communicatively competent. The Spanish region of Andalusia has implemented Bilingual Education since 2005, whereas in the United Kingdom the take-up rates of languages in schools are low despite the linguistic demands that Brexit…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Obi, Uloma Nkpurunma; Ticha, Ignatius Khan; Nakhooda, Muhammad – Journal of English as an International Language, 2021
This paper aims to explore student experiences resulting from collaborative teaching and learning of academic literacy and content knowledge, for multiple objectives at a South African University of Technology. Using the qualitative research approach, undergraduate students who attended the Communication Skills course were randomly selected. Data…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Educational Experience, Undergraduate Students, Communication Skills