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Direct linkMoharami, Mehdi; Daneshfar, Samran – Issues in Educational Research, 2022
Education policy seeks to define the purpose of schooling and design the educational sphere according to authorities' objectives and people's needs. Governments set policies and principles to reach their intended goals in education, preserving people's values and culture. Many countries provide learning foreign languages in their curriculum to…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
García, Ofelia; Solorza, Cristian R. – Language and Education, 2021
Most U.S. educational reforms have narrowly focused on how to improve the ways in which students use language, and most specifically English. But in the last two decades, it is something called "academic language" that has permeated all education discourse. Here we discuss the development of the construct of academic language and the…
Descriptors: Academic Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Hispanic American Students
Valencia Mazzanti, Cristina; Karsli-Calamak, Elif – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2022
This article examines the shared experiences and understandings teachers draw on to teach children with an awareness of linguistic diversity. To do so, we analyzed interviews from Turkey and the United States and drew on philosophical hermeneutics as a way to develop a disruptive understanding of teachers' views regarding the role of languages in…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Mathematics Instruction, Second Language Learning, Turkish
Download full textSalmona Madriñan, Mara – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2014
This action research project was carried out in order to identify the role of first language in the second-language classroom. This study was conducted in a Colombian international school with an English immersion program for kindergarten students attending their first year of school. The purpose of this study was to identify if the use of the…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Action Research, Language Role
Lartec, Jane K.; Belisario, Anastacia M.; Bendanillo, Jamaica P.; Binas-o, Hanni K.; Bucang, Novefirst O.; Cammagay, Jan Lorie W. – IAFOR Journal of Language Learning, 2014
The use of mother tongue in teaching in a multilingual setting affects the way pupils learn. A melting pot and the educational center of the North, Baguio City, Philippines demands teaching strategies that not only adapt to the interplay of the different cultures and languages but give importance to them, too. Specifically, this paper analyzed the…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Native Language, Language of Instruction, Multilingualism
Dhonau, Stephanie, Ed. – Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, 2013
This year's volume of the Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (CSCTFL) Report centering on the conference theme of MultiTasks, MultiSkills, and MultiConnections focused on the importance or world language use within the classroom and beyond with articles extending the conversation on target language use in instruction,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Role, Elementary Secondary Education
Glaser, Evelyne – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2005
While plurilingualism is not necessarily a novel concept, the author argues that the ability to speak several languages will help Europeans to develop a European identity and to deconstruct existing cultural and even genetic barriers. To this aim it would make sense to be introduced at a very early age to elements of language and culture from…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Immigrants
