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Varah, Sophayo Khamrang; Pawar, Deepak Tanaji – Language and Education, 2023
The significance of the mother tongue, and particularly mother tongue education, is widely acknowledged across the world. This study aims to investigate mother tongue attitudes of students, teachers, parents, and community members in Manipur. A self-report survey was used to collect data from 463 participants, and an exploratory factor analysis…
Descriptors: Native Language, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Parent Attitudes
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Paulsrud, BethAnne; Juvonen, Päivi; Schalley, Andrea C. – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
Sweden is often commended for the inclusion of home languages in the formal education system: both mother tongue instruction (where a pupil's home language is taught as an optional school subject) and study guidance (where a pupil is given content support in their home language or prior language of schooling) are offered. Still, while many…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
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Akbulut, Serdar; Aslan, Yasemin; Ahiskali, Eylem Ezgi – International Journal of Educational Methodology, 2021
The language, in the most basic sense, is a means of communication among people. Since the proper and effective use of people's native language will shape the whole life of an individual, individuals are expected to have native language awareness. There is a strong bilateral relationship between the effective use of native language and native…
Descriptors: Native Language, Preservice Teachers, Foreign Countries, Language Usage
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Khama Mashuro; Leonie Gysbertha Higgs – South African Journal of Education, 2025
In this study we critically investigated English as the language of learning and teaching (LoLT) in the Chivi district (Zimbabwe) and the implications of its use as the LoLT for social justice education. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews, focus-group interviews, observation and document analysis. The results show that social…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction, Social Justice, English (Second Language)
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Ekinci Çelikpazu, Esra; Atalay, Elif – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2021
This study aims to determine the direction what the mother tongue teacher candidates' awareness of why they learned grammar/features of the structure of the language. The research was conducted according to the document analysis method in qualitative research principles. The study group consisted of 94 students studying in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Turkish, Language Teachers, Native Language
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Gogonas, Nikos; Maligkoudi, Christina – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
Complementary schools are an important research area of Second Language Acquisition study, involving issues of identity, linguistic socialization, second language acquisition, linguistic hegemony, etc. This article looks at the Czech Complementary School in Thessaloniki, whose main purpose is the transmission of the Czech language and culture to…
Descriptors: Mothers, Language Attitudes, Slavic Languages, Parent Child Relationship
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Lei Wang; Shu-Yi Wang; Daniel K. McKelvey; Eleanor Y. Kim – Journal of College Student Mental Health, 2024
As student bodies on college campuses in the United States (U.S.) continue to diversify, university counseling centers have begun to recognize the importance of hiring multilingual therapists and trainees to meet the needs of 66 million U.S. residents who speak languages other than English. The study used a qualitative approach to better…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Counselor Attitudes, Counseling Services, Counselor Training
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Llorenç Comajoan-Colomé; Cristina Illamola; Montserrat Sendra; F. Xavier Vila i Moreno – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2025
This study investigates the longitudinal development of language attitudes towards Catalan and Spanish over a five-year period in the transition from primary to secondary education of a sample of students (N = 1,143) in Catalonia and Aragon. Two research questions were investigated: (1) How do language attitudes develop over time? and (2) How do…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Spanish, Romance Languages, Longitudinal Studies
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Chang Liu; Meihua Chen – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2025
This study employs a mixed-methods design to explore the attitudes and expressed beliefs of Chinese postgraduate students regarding the strategic use of their entire range of languages in English academic writing (EAW). The survey findings suggest that while students generally accept the idea of mixing languages during the writing process, they…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Writing Attitudes, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning
Kana, Fatih; Kaynak, Ufuk Sezer; Yilmaz, Ceren – Online Submission, 2023
The aim of this study is to reveal the effect of foreign language learning on mother tongue use. Case study design, one of the qualitative research designs, was used in the study. In order to keep the sample large, 70 pre-service teachers were selected using simple random sampling method among the 4th year undergraduate students studying in three…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Second Language Learning, Language Teachers, Native Language
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Xiaoyan I. Wu; Bernadette M. Watson; Susan C. Baker – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2024
Mainland Chinese students' (MCSs') cross-cultural adaptation experiences in Hong Kong have remained under-researched. Our study investigates this phenomenon with a language and social psychology approach and explores the role of Cantonese ability and communication with locals. We invoked Communication Accommodation Theory (CAT) to investigate the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Acculturation, Sino Tibetan Languages, Student Attitudes
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Werang, Elisabet Andriyanti; Harrington, Michael – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2022
This study compares the attitudes of Indonesian student teachers to the use of Bahasa Indonesia (BI) in primary and secondary school English classrooms to that of the instructors in their teacher training programmes. It also examines the metacognitive orientations the student teachers have towards its use in their future teaching. Questionnaire…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Teachers, English (Second Language), Language Teachers
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Özkanal, Ümit; Yüksel, Ilknur – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2023
This study employed qualitative research methodology to investigate pre-service teachers' perceptions of L1 use in language classrooms and their reflections on mentor teachers' L1 use during practicum. In this way, the purpose of this study is to obtain a new perspective on the mentoring process of pre-service teachers during practicum,…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Mentors, English (Second Language)
Amr Rabie-Ahmed – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Within the past few decades, notable contributions have been made in heritage language education research that continued to gain ground in language pedagogy and teaching practices (e.g., Davila, 2017; Valdes, 2000; Fishman, 2001; Kelleher, 2010; Polinsky & Kagan 2007). This dissertation is guided by translanguaging and social identity, two…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Hamza R'boul; Hassan Belhiah; Anissa Elhaffari – Language and Education, 2024
The mainstream colonial lenses that have been used to understand multilingualism in the peripheries may not account for the realities of Southern multilingualisms. This article takes up these epistemic challenges in navigating EMI through alternative lenses, aiming to complexify the discussion of EMI among young individuals who are engaged in…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Multilingualism, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language)
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