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Burns, Anne; Westmacott, Anne – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2018
One of the current challenges facing many universities is how to support teachers in becoming researchers. This article discusses the experiences at a small private Chilean university of a new action research programme that was developed as a vehicle for helping teachers to become involved in research and write a research publication for…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Lewis, Kelly; Davies, Ian – Journal of Social Science Education, 2018
Purpose: This study evaluates stances toward and characterizations of bilingual education by US editorial and letter-to-the-editor writers from 2006-2016 with references to perspectives offered in academic outputs. We are principally interested in bilingual education that supports English language proficiency (rather than heritage language…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Letters (Correspondence), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Sandoval Arenas, Carlos O. – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2017
This article focuses on language displacement in the High Mountains of Central Veracruz. It begins by presenting a brief historical account of the Nahuatl presence in the region in order to distinguish this group from other Nahuatl-speaking groups. Later, it describes the situation of language loss that is currently underway and argues that the…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Language Maintenance, Language Attitudes, Universities