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Ishamina Athirah Gardiner; Andrew Littlejohn; Sarah Boye – Language Teaching Research, 2024
This article examines the use of the repertory grid technique as a method to investigate learner perceptions in language education research. An important issue raised in this article concerns how far a researcher's agenda may be unintentionally imposed onto a research study which is investigating learners' perceptions, and how far the ensuing data…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Language Research, Research Methodology, Data Interpretation
Gorter, Durk; Cenoz, Jasone – Multilingual Matters, 2023
Language is on display all around us, all the time, and the study of this linguistic landscape is one of the fastest-growing areas of research in applied linguistics. This book provides an overview of how the field of Linguistic Landscape Studies has emerged and developed over the past 20 years, combined with an in-depth exploration of the…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Language Research, Linguistic Theory, Research Methodology
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Li, Michael – Frontiers of Education in China, 2020
Using a thematic analysis methodology, this paper attempts a critical review of published articles on Chinese character teaching and learning in and outside China between 2005 and 2019, highlighting contributions scholars made to the current literature as well as identifying gaps in the research. The analysis reveals that there is a rather large…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Chinese, Orthographic Symbols
Schwartz, Mila, Ed. – Springer, 2022
This is the first international and interdisciplinary handbook to offer a comprehensive and an in-depth overview of findings from contemporary research, theory, and practice in early childhood language education in various parts of the world and with different populations. The contributions by leading scholars and practitioners are structured to…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Language Acquisition, Child Development
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Bale, Jeff – Review of Research in Education, 2014
In this article, Jeff Bale reviews empirical research, policy analysis, and other forms of scholarly commentary on the long-standing rationale of framing language education in service of U.S. geopolitical and economic security. This synthesis directly calls into question the commonsense view that national security and economic competitiveness are…
Descriptors: Policy Analysis, Educational Policy, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Anderson, Jim; Chung, Yu-Chiao – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2011
There have been moves in a number of countries in recent years to develop appropriate pedagogies for the teaching of community/heritage languages, distinct from foreign language and mother tongue models. At the same time there has been a growing interest in ways of developing learners' creative abilities and there are grounds for believing that an…
Descriptors: Creativity, Qualitative Research, Research Methodology, Social Development
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Jiang, Xiaoli; Cohen, Andrew D. – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2012
This article critically reviews strategy research on learning Chinese both as a second and foreign language. Through a careful examination of major data bases in both the Chinese and English languages, the article summarizes research in the field and the principal research methods used in the studies reviewed. Moreover, key limitations in research…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Chinese, Second Language Learning, English
Arocena, Eli; Gorter, Durk – Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning, 2013
The project "The educational value of various aspects of multilingualism in the classroom of the Basque Country and of Friesland" concerns a comparative study of the languages in the schools in the Basque Autonomous Community and in the Province of Friesland. It is part of the agreement between the general administration of the Basque…
Descriptors: Uncommonly Taught Languages, Interviews, Teacher Attitudes, Language Teachers
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Kim, Mi Song – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2011
Based on a three-year ethnographic study, in such nested contexts involving six Korean-immigrant families, one regular French classroom, one private English institute, and one Korean church in Montreal, Canada, this study explores how the literacy practices and strategies of culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) learners were influenced and…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Research Methodology, Written Language, Multilingualism
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Greene, Jay P. – Bilingual Research Journal, 1997
A 1996 literature review of 75 "methodologically acceptable" studies concluded that bilingual education was not beneficial. A reexamination of the literature review found only 11 studies that actually were methodologically acceptable. The application of metaanalysis to those 11 studies shows that at least some native language instruction is…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Educational Research, Elementary Education
Brumfit, Christopher; Mason, Kathy – 1994
A study and associated development work concerning bilingual elementary and secondary students in British schools is reported. The study was designed to examine the progress and needs of bilingual students in several schools in the Southampton (England) area. It arose from concern about possible marginalization of minority language students in the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Students, Classroom Communication, Core Curriculum