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Nompumelelo Mohohlwane; Stephen Taylor; Jacobus Cilliers; Brahm Fleisch – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
In many countries, children need to become proficient in both their home language (L1) and an international language, such as English (L2). Governments face tradeoffs in how to prioritize these two objectives. We provide empirical evidence on cross-linguistic transfer between L1 and L2, using the results of two randomized evaluations of Structured…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingual Education, Language of Instruction, Second Language Learning
Egli Cuenat Mirjam – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
This article explores cross-linguistic lexical influence (CLI), i.e. idiosyncratic borrowings and creations based on other languages, in texts written by pupils learning French and English as foreign languages, and whose language of instruction is German. The study, carried out in German-speaking Switzerland, was based on a plurilingual conception…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), English, French, Second Language Learning
Brouwer, Jacqui; Daly, Nicola – Early Childhood Folio, 2022
"Te Whariki" promotes the use of te reo rangatira in English-medium early childhood education (ECE) settings. There is a growing body of work concerning the use of pukapuka pikitia (picturebooks) to support language learning, but there is very little, if any, research documenting how pukapuka pikitia can support te reo rangatira. This…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Kindergarten, English (Second Language), Language of Instruction
Jacobus Francois Wolfaardt; Alex Ho-Cheong Leung – Applied Linguistics, 2025
This study investigates the impact of Filipina domestic workers (FilDWs), a marginalized group in Hong Kong (HK), on HK children's language development. It focusses on FilDWs' influence on the second language (L2) English of bilingual HK primary school children attending an English Medium of Instruction school. The elements investigated are L2…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnic Groups, Housework, Service Occupations
Tina Cok – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2024
In terms of integration policy, Slovenia is considered a country that promotes the integration of children with an immigrant background into schools as quickly as possible. However fast the integration process may be, languages always play a key role in the education of pupils with an immigrant background and teachers need to adapt to their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Immigration, Inclusion
Rowe, Lindsey W. – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2022
Research is needed exploring how teachers and students in English-medium schools transform classrooms to welcome and value bilingualism and biliteracy. This article draws on social literacies and placed resources perspectives to explore how one classroom of second-grade students used Google Translate as a tool to support their biliterate…
Descriptors: Translation, Technology Uses in Education, Writing (Composition), Bilingualism
Keshavarz, Mohammad Hossein; Keshavarz, Avishan – MEXTESOL Journal, 2022
There is no dearth of studies on pronunciation problems of students of English as a Foreign Language (EFL); however, research on pronunciation problems of young learners is scarce. Therefore, to fill this research gap, the present quasiexperimental study aimed at investigating the effect of L2 input on the pronunciation performance of young…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Pronunciation, Elementary School Students
Sally-Ann Robertson; Mellony Graven – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2024
In this position paper we highlight language as a perennial factor contributing to compromised meaning-making in multilingual primary school mathematics classrooms. We note use of the term 'translanguaging' in discussions around mitigating this meaning-making challenge. The paper argues that, while much work remains to be done towards clarifying…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Classroom Communication
Hong Shi – World Journal of Education, 2023
The present study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of teaching intervention for Chinese learners, who were English speakers who tended to focus on phonemic awareness, in learning Chinese. It also tried to examine the impacts of Chinese phonological and morphological awareness on their English language development. The study was conducted in…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Learning, Intervention, Instructional Effectiveness
Frieda N. Shingenge – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2024
Background: Although students in teacher education programmes in Namibia study through the medium of English, their academic language (AL) proficiency remains a challenge for most of them. In the Junior Primary Education programmes, they are not only required to master AL for their own studies, but they must also learn how to teach emergent…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Universities, COVID-19, Pandemics
Carla Kekejian; Robert Kraemer; Chelsea Sommer; Molly Mcfadden; Chih-Ching Yeh – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2024
The amount of language input bilingual children receive influences their language acquisition. This three-year quasi-longitudinal study determined the extent home language input influences measures of expressive and receptive English vocabulary among Spanish-English school-age bilingual children. The study also determined whether a relationship…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Family Environment, Educational Environment, Language Usage
Sitwe Benson Mkandawire; Stephanie Simmons Zuilkowski; Joseph Mwenya Mwansa; Peter Chomba Manchishi – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2024
Pedagogical strategies intended for monolingual classes may not adequately address the educational needs and aspirations of culturally and linguistically diverse learners, as multilingual and bilingual learners differ from monolinguals. This article sought to understand multilingual teachers' pedagogical approaches to helping non-speakers of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning
Jungin Lee; Unkyoung Maeng – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2024
This action research explores how teachers and students at a private elementary school in Gyeonggi Province perceive the effectiveness of the English-only TEE policy and proposes a revised model tailored to the school's diverse needs. A total of 250 students and 6 teachers participated in the study, with data collected through surveys, interviews,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Schools, Elementary Schools, Program Effectiveness
Koen Van Gorp; Steven Verheyen – Modern Language Journal, 2024
For many children in Flanders, Belgium, the language of instruction is not their first language. Allowing children to use their heritage languages in the classroom has been argued to have functional and socioemotional benefits. In two exploratory studies, we introduced a multilingual task in four classrooms across three linguistically and socially…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Multilingualism, Emotional Response
Simone Graczyk – Online Submission, 2024
The world has become seemingly smaller with the advancements of technologies, instead of taking days to receive a written letter, it takes seconds to get an email. While the connection is obvious there still seems to be a barrier between the majority of the world's population: Language. Though it seems irrelevant in people's small communities, the…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Communication Problems, Cultural Differences