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Muriel Bossuroy; Charlène Laurent; Minsung Kim-Vivier; François Ndjapou; Jean-Luc Vidalenc; Catherine Lachnitt – Intercultural Education, 2024
This article focuses on a school-family partnership programme that has been implemented in French schools to prevent learning difficulties among migrant children, taking their specific needs into account. It consists of a series of three to four sessions, gathering migrant parents, their children and members of the teaching staff, one interpreter…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Multilingualism, Family School Relationship, Foreign Countries
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Sara M. Beaudrie; Anna Marrero-Rivera – Foreign Language Annals, 2024
Research on Spanish heritage language (SHL) education has grown exponentially in the last two decades. The most recent nationwide study on SHL programs in US postsecondary institutions was conducted a decade ago. To continue this line of research, the primary aim of this study is to provide an update about the current state of SHL course offerings…
Descriptors: Language Research, Native Language, Spanish, Second Language Learning
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Jayoung Choi – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2024
This case study examines emergent, evolving language ideologies of a trilingual child, from age 3-7, who was simultaneously acquiring two heritage languages, Korean and Farsi, as well as English in the United States. A qualitative analysis of the child's conversations in a naturally occurring home context extends the literature centered on the…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Young Children, Korean, Indo European Languages
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Emily Phillips Galloway; Heather M. Meston; Christina L. Dobbs – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
To inform the design of humanizing pedagogies that draw on the whole of learners' linguistic resources, educators must come to know students as language users, and, more centrally, support students to become aware of the dynamism of their own linguistic repertoires. We highlight one instructional approach--"linguistic cartography"--for…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Cognitive Mapping, Language Skills
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Huseyin Kyuchuk; Anar Fazylzhanova; Madina Abayeva; Aliya Nazarova; Quwatbek Duysen; Aidana Makhambetova; Shakhlo Kazakbayeva; Talshyn Chukayeva; Jill de Villiers – Intercultural Education, 2025
The research report describes the ability of Kazakh preschool children to tell narratives relating to mental states, and the connection with theory of mind tasks about false beliefs. Three groups of preschool children (N = 29; 3-, 4-, and 5- year-olds) from the city of Almaty were tested in the Kazakh language. The results show very high…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Bilingualism, Multilingualism, Preschool Children
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Villanueva, Joey M. – Cogent Education, 2022
This study dealt with the students' language profile, metacognitive reading strategies, and reading comprehension performance adopting the descriptive-correlational method of the four hundred forty-six randomly selected students enrolled in the colleges of Forestry, Education, Engineering, Computer Science, and Information Technology in a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Reading Strategies, Reading Comprehension
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Adriana Soto-Corominas; Marta Segura; Helena Roquet; Noelia Navarro; Yagmur Elif Met – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2025
Research on the effects of bilingualism on third language (L3) development set in bilingual communities is scarce, outdated, and has provided mixed results. This study investigated the effects of exposure and age of onset of acquisition (AOA) of L3-English, as well as first and second language (L1/L2) skills and use, in the development of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Spanish, Romance Languages, Bilingualism
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Valentina Carbonara; Andrea Scibetta; Jacopo Torregrossa – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
The present study investigates whether exposure to multilingual pedagogies enhances emergent bilingual children's narrative abilities. These abilities are among the most reliable indicators of children's literacy skills. We compare two groups of emergent bilingual children with migrant background attending the fourth and fifth grade of a public…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Teaching Methods, Educational Benefits, Native Language
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Bretuo, Priscilla – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2021
The decision on which language(s) of instruction to use and how to use them in education is a persistent challenge in the development of quality education in multilingual countries like Ghana. This qualitative study of four public basic schools in the Ashanti region of Ghana explores teachers' and pupils' experience of the early-exit transitional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingual Education, Language of Instruction, Public Schools
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Singleton, David; Flynn, Colin J. – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2022
The term translanguaging goes back more than a quarter-century, originating in the domain of the teaching of Welsh, but it has over the years developed a wide variety of usages. While translanguaging is claimed to have advantages over other language education models, many of its new interpretations, which take it some distance from its original…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Language Usage, Second Language Learning, Multilingualism
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Muller, Sarah – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
While the language portrait (LP) is a visual research method that can make visible speakers' multilingualism, this article considers how and why speakers may use the LP to make elements of their linguistic repertoire "invisible." Analysing the portraits created by three primary school students in Luxembourg, I explore why these young…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Self Concept, Language Skills
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Weiss, Sabine; Scharfenberg, Jonas; Kiel, Ewald – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2023
The present study investigated critical incidents in multilingual classrooms from teachers' perspectives to identify resources to make multilingual classrooms succeed. Our study is embedded in identity theories such as Mead's symbolic interactionism, translanguaging, and global language theory. The incidents referred to the language of…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Language Usage, Classroom Techniques, Classroom Communication
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Amira Desouky Ali – Bilingual Research Journal, 2024
This study examined how two Translanguaging (TL) modes impact multilingual students' English skills. It also investigates the perceived benefits and disadvantages of the translanguaging practices used by both students and teacher. The research sample comprised 96 multilingual students divided into three groups: a control group and two experimental…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Native Language, Second Language Learning
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MacLeod, Andrea A. N.; Glaspey, Amy M. – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2022
Background: Teachers and clinicians may struggle to provide early identification to support multilingual children's language development. Dynamic assessments are a promising approach to identify and support children's language development. Aims: We developed and studied a novel word learning task that is dynamic and language neutral. It makes use…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, French, Kindergarten, Transfer of Training
Indiana Department of Education, 2024
Providing foundational academic support to Indiana's culturally and linguistically diverse students is a cornerstone of the state's educational goals. Over 140,000 Indiana students speak a language other than English at home, and there are over 295 different languages represented in Indiana schools. Of these, over 93,000 students have been…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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