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Admire Mhindu – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2025
Mother Tongue Education (MTE), despite being the most reliable method of learning, is a challenge for the African countries that fail to implement MTE policies due to lack of resources, stakeholders' attitudes towards mother tongues, and lack of political will. Keeping in view the plight of the primary implementers of such policies, hence, this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, African Languages, Native Language Instruction, Language Minorities
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Christina Hedman; Ulrika Magnusson – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2023
This paper explores the role of collaborative teacher agency in facilitating translingual adjustments in a linguistically diverse primary school in Sweden. We focus on three multicompetent language teachers, who taught minoritized languages in the marginalized Mother Tongue (MT) subject, Modern Languages, and offered Multilingual Study Mentoring.…
Descriptors: Teacher Collaboration, Multilingualism, Native Language, Elementary School Students
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Christina Maligkoudi; Giorgos Mavrommatis – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2025
Minority schools in Greek Thrace implement a model of bilingual education in primary and secondary education, where half of the lessons of the curriculum is taught in Greek and the other half, in Turkish. Although, at an institutional level, the bilingual character of the minority schools in Thrace is clearly defined regarding both legal…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Greek
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Kolobe, Maboleba; Matsoso, Lifelile – International Journal of Language Education, 2020
This paper provides a critical overview of the theoretical and practical questions that prevail in the teaching, learning, and assessment of learners from diverse linguistic backgrounds in Lesotho. It investigates how far exclusion of minority languages affects both assessment and/or educational development of learners whose mother tongue is not…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Minorities, Educational Development, African Languages
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Mikel Gartziarena; Jon Altuna – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
This quantitative research focuses on exploring and describing the beliefs of 418 in-service teachers on language teaching approaches and multilingualism in the South of the Basque Country. The findings report key factors and features of multilingual education in the region where Basque (minority language), Spanish (majority language), English…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Multilingualism, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning
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Santiago-Garabieta, Maite; García-Carrión, Rocío; Zubiri-Esnaola, Harkaitz; López de Aguileta, Garazi – Language Teaching Research, 2023
The increasing linguistic diversity of the students in schools poses a major challenge for inclusive educational systems in which everyone can learn the language of instruction effectively and, likewise, can have access to contents, being language the necessary tool to the latter end. Research suggests that there is a robust connection between…
Descriptors: Dialogs (Language), Secondary School Students, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes
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Cunningham, Clare – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2020
Despite research evidence showing that home language maintenance is important both individually and societally, the task of managing and encouraging it has traditionally fallen to minority language communities and families, tending to lead to inter-generational language shift. Teachers' discourses about responsibilities for language maintenance,…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Maintenance, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Ozfidan, Burhan; Burlbaw, Lynn M.; Koklu, Onder – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2023
The purpose of this study is to investigate how a bilingual education program effects the minority groups' academic achievement. An explanatory sequential mixed method was used for this study. Triangulation was used in both the quantitative and qualitative parts of the study to minimize prejudice and enhance honesty regarding the social phenomenon…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education Programs, Ethnic Groups, Intergroup Relations
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Eva Mikuska; Judit Raffai; Éva Vukov Raffai – Global Studies of Childhood, 2024
In 2018 a new, more inclusive concept, of preschool education was adopted in Serbia with plans to implement the change from September 2019 to 2022. This paper examines how the national reform in Early Childhood Education (ECE) was perceived by Hungarian kindergarten pedagogues, who are the largest ethnic minority group in Vojvodina, Serbia. To…
Descriptors: Intersectionality, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Kindergarten
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Vikøy, Aasne; Haukås, Åsta – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
The L1 subject is a central meeting place for all students regardless of their linguistic backgrounds. Thus explorations of multilingualism in the L1 subject provide the potential for enhancing all students' multilinguality. In Norway, several policy papers have emphasised the important role of the L1 Norwegian subject in promoting students'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Teacher Attitudes, Second Language Learning
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Kara D. Brown; Petteri Laihonen – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2025
This article interrogates the meaning of marginalisation by comparing two non-dominant language communities in Europe, and in particular their language education and teachers. An interdisciplinary exploration of the marginalisation leads the authors to identify key aspects and expressions of the concept. The authors illuminate these broad…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Disadvantaged, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Thoutenhoofd, Ernst D.; Lyngbäck, Liz Adams – Sign Language Studies, 2023
In 1981, Sweden was the first country in the world to entitle deaf pupils to a bimodal-bilingual education. However, drawing from interviews with key past Stockholm teacher trainers and on our own efforts to update teacher training, we note that sign-bilingual teacher training in Sweden has been ad hoc to this day. The interviewees' accounts…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingualism, Sign Language, Teacher Education Programs
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Jiaye Wu; Nicola McLelland; Sarah Dauncey – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Despite growing attention paid to the language ideologies of teachers as actors in bilingualism or multilingualism studies, little research has examined whether and how power dynamics between majority and minority languages play a role in the promulgation of a majority language to ethnic minority learners of that majority language. This paper…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Mandarin Chinese, Standard Spoken Usage, Language Attitudes
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Shiran Wang; Saifon Songsiengchai; Kanon Somrang; Nadda Angsuwotai; Panjanat Vorawattanachai – World Journal of Education, 2024
This study was conducted with Zhuang and Miao students and Mandarin teachers in grades four to six in four township elementary schools in Dehou Township, Wenshan City, Yunnan Province. The purposes of this study were:1) to study the influences of the native language that affect Zhuang and Miao students when they learn Mandarin,2) to study…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Minorities, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Csanád Bodó; Noémi Fazakas – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2025
Current research on language revitalisation through education has highlighted the impact of the standard language ideology on minoritised language practices. This ideology is intertwined with emerging literacy practices in language revitalisation, leading to debates on what to teach minority language students, and how. The paper argues that…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Sociolinguistics, Language Attitudes, Standard Spoken Usage
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