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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
Zhanna K. Makhanova; Natalya V. Dmitryuk; Gulbanu B. Makhanova – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2025
The importance of addressing the linguodidactic problems of intercultural communication in the multilingual educational space of the Republic of Kazakhstan lies in the fact that by 2021, the Programme of trilingual education in the region, adopted for implementation in the early 2000s, will have reached its final stage. The purpose of this study…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Ethnic Groups, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning
Ping Zhang; Bob Adamson – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
Recent developments in multilingualism and multilingual education in minority-dominated regions in China highlight the importance of policy studies to support the national goals of achieving multilingualism [Feng, A. W., and B. Adamson, eds. 2015. "Trilingualism in Education in China: Models and Challenges." Dordrecht: Springer],…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Geographic Regions, Foreign Countries, Language Minorities
Christina Hedman; Linda Fisher – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This paper builds on a collaborative pilot project on "Critical Multilingual Language Awareness" (CMLA) in a linguistically diverse Preparatory Class with migrant adolescents in Sweden. Importantly, the approach involved Multilingual Study Mentors (MSMs), whose role normally is to provide scaffolding in the strongest language of recently…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Metalinguistics, Immigrants, Swedish
Gabriele, Alison – Second Language Research, 2021
This commentary discusses Westergaard's (2021) keynote article, which presents a comprehensive model of first language (L1), second language (L2), and third language (L3) acquisition. The commentary presents evidence from a previous study of L3 learners that provides support for Westergaard's property-by-property transfer proposal. The commentary…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Native Language, Linguistic Theory
Qianqian Zhang-Wu, Editor; Bridget Goodman, Editor – Multilingual Matters, 2025
While substantial research has looked backward at the colonial history of language and forward to the potential of decolonizing English for linguistic justice, there is a lack of investigation looking "inward" at the lived raciolinguistic experiences of multilingual scholars. This edited collection opens a healing space for storytelling…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Race, Language Variation, Language Attitudes
Zhang, Rui; Chan, Brian Hok-Shing – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
This paper examines the translanguaging practice of two EFL teachers in a Xinjiang university, where English and Mandarin Chinese are predominant but Uyghur is minoritised as a medium of instruction. We focus on data in which the teachers translanguage across all three languages and make a case for the conception of pedagogical translanguaging…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Native Language, Mandarin Chinese, English (Second Language)
Li, Wendong; Gong, Yang – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2023
This study adopted a social network perspective to explore the academic discourse socialization experiences of eight degree-seeking multilingual international students at a university in eastern China. Based on a triangulation of ethnographic interviews, social network questionnaires, and supplementary sources (e.g., voluntarily submitted…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Socialization, Academic Language, Network Analysis
Muth, Sebastian; Suryanarayan, Neelakshi – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2020
This paper aims to demonstrate the implications of health mobility on language practices in the medical tourism industry in India and on the ways, language workers become entrepreneurs. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork that traces the trajectories of three former students of Russian, we highlight their future aspirations as language learners…
Descriptors: Tourism, Health Services, Language Usage, Entrepreneurship
Gilmetdinova, Alsu – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2019
The purpose of the paper is to shed light on potential driving forces that guide principals' decisions on how to implement language policies in their schools in Kazan, Russia. Kazan is the capital of Tatarstan and home for the second biggest ethnic group in Russia, called Tatars, whose native language proficiency is gradually declining. After…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Literacy, Second Language Learning