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Avinash Pandey; Renuka Ozarkar – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2025
This article focuses on the ever-increasing stress on multilingual education (MLE) in policy documents, especially its pairing with mother tongues in education (MTE). This focus brings into relief the relationship between MTE, the preservation of linguistic diversity and social democracy. We argue that the outcome of this relationship crucially…
Descriptors: Aesthetics, Language Usage, Native Language, Multilingualism
Raees Calafato – Language Awareness, 2025
Language teachers cannot help their students develop high levels of metalinguistic knowledge and language aptitude if they themselves are found lacking in these abilities. This article reports on a study that utilised a descriptive correlational mixed-methods research design to gather data from 89 multilingual teachers of English, Chinese, French,…
Descriptors: Language Aptitude, Metalinguistics, Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods
Alice Chik; Silvia Melo-Pfeifer – Language Awareness, 2024
Many metropolitan cities have undergone rapid demographic changes in recent years, and such changes hasten and widen linguistic diversities. Similar changes are happening in Sydney, Australia and Hamburg, Germany. These changes are most acutely felt and observed in the classrooms where multiple languages are spoken, despite a prevalent monolingual…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Cross Cultural Studies, Teacher Education Programs
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
Zilal Meccawy; Najwan Sebai – Journal of Education and Learning, 2025
This qualitative study uses a semi-structured interview to investigate why Saudi learners stop learning a third language and whether these reasons are permanent or temporary. The participants were six female master's degree students who had experience learning a third language outside of formal education or informal settings. This study identifies…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Attribution Theory, Learning Processes, Social Media
Lall, Marie – Language and Education, 2021
Research across Myanmar's ethnic states has shown that large and well organised non-dominant ethnic groups such as the Mon, Karen, Shan and Kachin would prefer Myanmar's education system to offer MTB-MLE so that their children are able to start education in the mother tongue. This article engages with some of the overlooked voices of minorities…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Native Language, Language of Instruction, Minority Groups
Natalia Wright, Editor – English Language Education, 2025
This volume focuses on glocalization in English language teaching and learning, examining the challenges of its implementation. It describes the innovative practices of multilingual TESOL practitioners from various parts of the world, offering nuanced perspectives on how to glocalize teaching methods, curricula, materials, and teacher preparation.…
Descriptors: Global Approach, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Park, Soojin Oh – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2023
One in three children enrolled in US early childhood programs is a dual language learner. While dual language learners have been the target of sweeping educational reforms under the guise of justice, these reforms--which pathologize dual language learners as problems to be remediated rather than assets to be developed--have largely ignored the…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Emergent Literacy, Educational Change, Early Childhood Education
Phuntsog, Nawang – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2018
This conceptual paper reports the rare and unprecedented mother tongue based schooling of Tibetan children in exile in India as a success story that can serve as a model for displaced and indigenous peoples. A brief historical development of Tibetan language is offered to highlight the circuitous journey of Tibetan language from the indigenous to…
Descriptors: Sino Tibetan Languages, Refugees, Minority Groups, Language of Instruction
Göncz, Lajos – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2020
How does multilingualism affect thinking and behavior? Recent findings demonstrate that multilingualism influences executive functioning, as well as personality traits and dimensions. Concordant outcomes show that multilingual individuals are more likely to be successful at inhibiting certain types of conduct (e.g., impulsivity) than monolinguals.…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Language Maintenance, Personality Traits, Executive Function
Shannon Davidson; Mandy Smoker Broaddus; Lymaris Santana – Region 16 Comprehensive Center, 2024
Indigenous methodologies for guiding, advising, and educating children have been in place since time immemorial. Those well-honed approaches to education were built to support whole and healthy individual development while also establishing a lifelong awareness and reverence for community, connection, kinship, and reciprocity. In Western cultures,…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Story Telling, Indigenous Knowledge, Second Language Learning
Kordt, Birgit – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2018
This article argues that the concept of affordances as put forward by James J. Gibson can make a major contribution to our understanding of multilingualism. It can throw some light on multilingualism in general as well as on specific aspects like successful and unsuccessful transfer, the challenges involved in teaching for multilingualism,…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Linguistic Theory
Bhat, Zahoor Ahmad; Khan, Mahmood Ahmad – Online Submission, 2021
The study aimed to explore the indigenous language of Gujjar and Bakerwal tribal communities of district Ganderbal of Jammu and Kashmir, India. The design of the study is qualitative in nature. The researcher employs purposive sampling in selecting the sample. The researcher surveyed 81 Gujjar and Bakerwal households and interviewed 22 (19 Male…
Descriptors: Tribes, Native Language, Indians, Ethnic Groups
Seals, Corinne A.; Olsen-Reeder, Vincent; Pine, Russell; Ash, Madeline; Wallace, Cereace – Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2020
This article describes the process of understanding how translanguaging is naturally used in multilingual teaching environments and then applying this analysis to the creation of translanguaging grammar rules and ultimately pedagogical materials. Focusing primarily on our work with a Maori puna reo in Aotearoa New Zealand, but also drawing upon…
Descriptors: Grammar, Multilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Teaching Methods
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