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Cris Edmonds-Wathen; Jacobina Gumurdal – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2024
There are both educational and cultural benefits to first language (L1) instruction, particularly in the early years of school, but in Australia, few Indigenous language-speaking students are taught in their own languages. Teaching mathematics in Indigenous languages requires both linguistically capable Indigenous educators and the identification…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language of Instruction, Indigenous Populations, Mathematics Instruction
Willem van de Waal; Maxwell Agyei Ashon; John P. Comings – Prospects, 2024
The Strategic Approach to Girls' Education (STAGE) project developed and implemented an intervention that helped marginalized out-of-school girls in the northern regions of Ghana enter and be successful in primary school. STAGE builds on the Government of Ghana's Complementary Basic Education policy, which supports an accelerated learning program…
Descriptors: Females, Womens Education, Out of School Youth, Foreign Countries
Franz Giuseppe F. Cortez – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2025
This paper revisits the main thoughts of the Filipino historian and social critic Renato Constantino on the role of education in the formation of a neocolonial and postcolonial consciousness. It suggests that Constantino's critical stance towards education embodies a type of philosophizing about education that centers on the problematization of…
Descriptors: Historians, Educational History, Role of Education, Postcolonialism
Zahra Shah – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2024
Thomas Babington Macaulay's 1835 minute on Indian education is widely held to be representative of the views which underpinned the English East India Company's replacement of Persian with English as the official language of administration in India in 1837, and the promotion of English and Indian vernacular languages as part of colonial educational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indo European Languages, Urdu, Official Languages
Joseph Lo Bianco – Educational Linguistics, 2021
The DLC concept also allows teachers and researchers to take into account various kinds of impact that multilingualism has on education. One impact of DLC is to illuminate how literacy teaching is to proceed in multilingual classrooms, with learners coming from traditions of literacy that might differ markedly from the official curriculum.…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Second Language Instruction, Language Usage, Language of Instruction
Dafouz, Emma; Gray, John – ELT Journal, 2022
The Introduction to this Special Issue on ELT and English-medium education in multilingual university settings provides a picture of the dynamic backdrop to the issues addressed by our contributing writers. We begin with a reflection on the nature of ELT and then move to a discussion of the specific nature of English-medium education in higher…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer – Educational Linguistics, 2021
This chapter describes and analyses visual linguistic autobiographies of Spanish and French student teachers at Hamburg University, making use of the Dominant Language Constellation (DLC) perspective. In order to determine, compare and explain the constellations depicted by the two groups, the author makes use of dynamic systems' theory and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Student Teachers
Chimbutane, Feliciano – Language Policy, 2021
The aim of this Afterword is to foreground and discuss some of the key themes emerging from the four studies in this special issue. I first consider the critical ethnographic approach to language policy and planning adopted in the studies, and the attention to language policy processes unfolding on different scales of social and institutional…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Foreign Countries, Ethnography, Policy Formation
Nakamura, Pooja; Leyew, Zelealem; Molotsky, Adria; Ranjit, Varsha; Kamto, Kevin – Campbell Systematic Reviews, 2023
To address the evidence gap in making effective language of instruction (LOI) decisions, we propose a systematic review of the role of LOI choices in education programs and policies on literacy outcomes in multilingual educational contexts in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Grounded in a multidisciplinary theory of change (ToC)…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language of Instruction, Decision Making
Gregory J. Heathco – Communication Teacher, 2025
University classrooms are increasingly populated by students with diverse nationalities and native languages (L1). The growing number of students in English-led classrooms who speak English as a second or lower language (L2) may face added difficulties in understanding the specific task objectives or directions, as explained by native-…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Comparative Analysis, Language Processing
Old Languages in New Academic Spaces: Emergent Pedagogy for Tertiary Programmes in Pacific Languages
Willans, Fiona – Language Learning Journal, 2020
This paper considers an appropriate pedagogy for indigenous language programmes at tertiary level in a context in which a former colonial language has become the default as both medium of instruction and subject of academic study. This pedagogy is guided by an overarching commitment to decolonisation of the academic space, is grounded in the…
Descriptors: Pacific Islanders, Indigenous Knowledge, Native Language, Higher Education
Escobar-Alméciga, Wilder Yesid – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2022
Education in Spain and Latin America has been experiencing an ever-increasing use of English as a medium of instruction at all levels and across curricula. Bringing the vast research-literature into a reflective dialogue is paramount to advancing the discipline and to refining English teaching practices. As such, this literature review…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language of Instruction
Banitz, Brita – MEXTESOL Journal, 2022
In the present article, I revisit the ongoing controversy surrounding the use of translation in the foreign language classroom in general. I begin by defining the concept of 'translation' arguing that translation can be understood either as a method or as a means and that it is exactly the ambiguity of the term that has led to the current debate…
Descriptors: Translation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Grammar
Svonni, Charlotta – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2023
This comparative curricular study examines the educational functions of the Swedish Sámi nomad school curricula before and after a central school reform in the 1960s. Due to the reform, the nomad school, a boarding school system for the Indigenous Sámi people in Sweden, was formed to bring about systemic changes in the education of Sámi children,…
Descriptors: Minority Groups, Boarding Schools, Educational History, Animal Husbandry
Wei, Li – ELT Journal, 2022
Following the multilingual trend in language education, translanguaging advocates active use of multiple languages and other meaning-making resources in a dynamic and integrated way in teaching and learning. When it comes to foreign language education, translanguaging advocates a view that the languages the learners already have should and can…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Code Switching (Language)