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Perera, Nirukshi – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2022
This study is located in a lesser-known educational context and investigates aspects of migration, religion and multilingualism. Focusing on the discourse of second-generation adolescent migrants in a Tamil Hindu temple school in urban Australia, I discuss how flexible language practices manifest in this migrant faith setting. I argue that the use…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Religion, Multilingualism
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Lightfoot, Amy; Balasubramanian, Anusha; Tsimpli, Ianthi; Mukhopadhyay, Lina; Treffers-Daller, Jeanine – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
India's linguistic diversity is reflected in classrooms across the country, where multiple languages are used by teachers and learners to negotiate meaning and instruction -- a multilingual, multicultural student body is the norm, whether in urban or rural contexts. This study documents teaching practices in English language and maths lessons in…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Vijayakumar, Poorani; Steinkrauss, Rasmus; Sun, He – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
The current study investigates the impact of the teachers' societal dominant language use within a weak version of translanguaging in early heritage language education. We explored five preschool teachers' use of English, the dominant majority language, in Tamil heritage language classes in Singapore and examined its impact on 33 children's…
Descriptors: Language Usage, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Mahapatra, Santosh Kumar; Anderson, Jason – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2023
This paper proposes a framework for multilingual language-in-education policy implementation, offered as a critically constructive response to India's recent "National Education Policy 2020" (GOI, 2020). Rooted in India's existing educational language policy, our linguistically inclusive 'Languages for Learning' (LFL) framework is, we…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Outcomes of Education, Multilingualism, Language of Instruction
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Veettil, Roy P.; Binu, P. M.; Karthikeyan, J. – Arab World English Journal, 2020
This study explores the current status of language maintenance (LM) and language shift (LS) among Keralites, popularly known as 'Malayalees,' living in Oman. It analyses the leading factors that affect language maintenance and language shift: a particular focus is given to identifying the various domains in which language maintenance is…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Language Skill Attrition, Oral Language, Native Language
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Thirusanku, Jantmary; Yunus, Melor Md – English Language Teaching, 2014
The main aims of this qualitative study are to identify and categorise the types of lexical borrowings from the three main Malaysian languages which are the Malay language, Chinese dialects and Indian languages used by 203 ESL teachers, to what extent these lexical borrowings are used and for what reasons. This study has identified a new category…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Foreign Countries, Linguistic Borrowing, English (Second Language)