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Iskender Gelir; Ali Kemal Tekin; Laila Al-Salmi – Cogent Education, 2024
This study aimed to examine the acquisition of Roman alphabetic script among young children within a bilingual (Arabic and English) educational environment employing a language separation pedagogical approach in Muscat, Oman. Data were collected utilizing participant observations, video recordings to capture the interactions of three children and…
Descriptors: Written Language, Romanization, Arabic, Native Language
Aleksic, Gabrijela; Bebic-Crestany, Džoen – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
In today's linguistically and culturally diverse schools, it is important that teachers use inclusive pedagogies, such as translanguaging. This pedagogy assumes that teachers have positive attitudes towards children's home languages and cultures (translanguaging stance), which we explored in our study with 40 preschool teachers in Luxembourg. The…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Multilingualism, Language Usage, Native Language
Elena Florit; Chiara Barachetti; Marinella Majorano; Manuela Lavelli – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
Toddlers from low-income and language-minority immigrant families are at risk for language difficulties due to early disparities in the quality of their home language environment. The present longitudinal study extends previous research by investigating nursery teachers' communicative modalities and functions, and their relations with the…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Toddlers, Low Income Groups
Wong, Kevin M.; Flynn, Rachel M.; Neuman, Susan B. – TESOL Journal, 2021
This study examines the potential of educational media to provide preschool-aged dual language learners (DLLs) with vocabulary in a new language. Drawing from dual-coding theory, the current study investigated how three distinct instructional contexts with varying degrees of incidental-intentional vocabulary exposure on screen might facilitate…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Bengochea, Alain; Sembiante, Sabrina F.; Gort, Mileidis – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2020
This case study explores how an emergent bilingual preschooler used transmodal practices to engage with objects and compose narratives in sociodramatic play. Video recordings and field notes were collected in a dual language preschool classroom in the United States to examine the actional, verbal, and visual modes used by the focal child during…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Bilingualism, Play, Drama
Barón, Júlia; Roquet, Helena; Evnitskaya, Natalia; Navarro, Noelia – English Language Teaching, 2020
This study aims to explore how the speech act of requesting is performed in Catalan (L1), English (L1) and EFL classrooms by pre-primary teachers. The study examines transcripts of 40-minute video-recorded lessons (six in Catalan/L1, six in English/FL, and three in English/L1) collected in several pre-primary schools in Catalonia, Spain. Recall…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Preschool Education, Romance Languages, Native Language
Sembiante, Sabrina F.; Yeomans-Maldonado, Gloria; Johanson, Megan; Justice, Laura – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: We examined the amount of preschool lead/assistant teachers' English/Spanish language use and relations between quality of teacher-child interactions, and Dual Language Learners' (DLLs) English/Spanish bilingual vocabulary in 31 English-medium Head Start classrooms. Measures in this study included (a) children's conceptual…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Bilingualism, Bilingual Teachers, Teacher Student Relationship
Aleksic, Gabrijela; García, Ofelia – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
Based on an analysis of the video recording and transcript of one lesson chosen by preschool teachers in Luxembourg as an example of translanguaging pedagogy, this article shows the teachers' limited understandings of translanguaging. As a result of a new 2017 multilingual education policy for early childhood, the first author designed a…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Preschool Teachers, Preschool Children, Code Switching (Language)
Spencer, Trina D.; Moran, Meghan; Thompson, Marilyn S.; Petersen, Douglas B.; Restrepo, M. Adelaida – Grantee Submission, 2020
The purpose of this cluster randomized group study was to investigate the effect of multitiered, dual-language instruction on children's oral language skills, including vocabulary, narrative retell, receptive and expressive language, and listening comprehension. The participants were 3- to 5-year-old children (n = 81) who were learning English and…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Intervention, Bilingual Education, Spanish
Zhou, Wenying; Li, Guofang – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
Based on video recordings of five pre-k to grade 4 Chinese dual-language bilingual education (DLBE) teachers' classroom instruction, this article examines the Chinese DLBE teachers' target and first language use and pedagogical moves during their processes of learning to teach in immersion schools in the US. Conversational analyses of classroom…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Song, Lulu; Liang, Eva; Luo, Rufan – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2018
Twice in the preschool/pre-k year, we assessed 37 Chinese 3- and 4-year-olds dual language learners' (DLLs) receptive vocabularies in English and Chinese, interviewed parents to gauge the home language environment, and videotaped classroom activities to analyze teachers' and DLLs' language use (word types) in English and Chinese. DLLs' receptive…
Descriptors: Chinese, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Bilingualism
Martín-Bylund, Anna – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2017
What are the material-semiotic relationships between a language policy and a table game activity in a bilingual preschool? Using Actor-Network Theory (ANT), the aim of this article is to explore this question, working with both human and nonhuman aspects of the activity, symmetrically, at the same level. The game playing activity takes place at a…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Bilingualism, Bilingual Education, Preschool Children
Back, Michele; Zavala, Virginia; Franco, Raiza – CALICO Journal, 2022
Although the COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly affected K-12 education worldwide, Peru has faced particularly unique challenges. A combination of quarantine requirements and unequal access to remote learning technology led to the creation of a series of multimodal programs by Peru's Ministry of Education under the umbrella title Aprendo en Casa [I…
Descriptors: Pandemics, COVID-19, Distance Education, Foreign Countries
Kim, Ahyoung Alicia; Kondo, Akira; Castro, Mariana – Wisconsin Center for Education Research, 2016
Due to the increase in the number of preschool-aged dual language learners (DLLs), there is a need to understand their language development and how to better support them. Although DLLs' language development has traditionally been studied from a structuralist perspective, few have examined their language use from a functional approach, which…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Second Language Learning, Bilingual Students
Cekaite, Asta; Evaldsson, Ann-Carita – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2017
In this study we argue that a focus on language learning ecologies, that is, situations for participation in various communicative practices, can shed light on the intricate processes through which minority children develop or are constrained from acquiring cultural and linguistic competencies (here, of a majority language). The analysis draws on…
Descriptors: Play, Multilingualism, Preschool Education, Second Language Learning