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Mikel Gartziarena; Beñat Olave – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
The present research focuses on studying teachers' beliefs about the complexity of learning the curricular languages in the Basque Country, with special focus on Basque, the minority language. The study adopts a mixed-methods research design. For the quantitative data, 1093 participants completed a specifically designed online questionnaire, which…
Descriptors: Languages, Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs, Difficulty Level
Iratxe Serna-Bermejo; David Lasagabaster – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
Translanguaging has become a very relevant and controversial issue, especially in those contexts where the language teaching tradition encourages the exclusion of the L1 from the L2/FL classroom. Whereas previous research in the Basque Country has mainly focused on the implementation of translanguaging pedagogies, in this study we carried out a…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Translation, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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
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
Santiago-Garabieta, Maite; García-Carrión, Rocío; Villardón-Gallego, Lourdes – International Journal of Educational Psychology, 2022
Over the last decades, many efforts have been made to establish the Basque minority language as a normalized language in the Basque Country. Research has shown that language use, language proficiency and attitudes towards language are closely associated. Likewise, the benefit of interactive learning environments for improving language proficiency…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Student Attitudes, Language Minorities, Languages
Delphine, Tim – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2023
Teaching English literacy in First Nations Australian communities is bound up with the policy aim of improving the social and economic outcomes of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and the desire to acknowledge, recognise and respect their unique cultural identities, languages and knowledges. But for English literacy teachers working…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Foreign Countries, Literacy Education, Teacher Attitudes
Disbray, Samantha; O'Shannessy, Carmel; MacDonald, Gretel; Martin, Barbara – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
When an endangered or minority language is spoken by children and taught in schools, both oral and literacy skills are crucial for continued language maintenance. In school settings, literacy skills are often prioritised to support the transition to second language literacy, and rich oral language development is overlooked. This paper presents a…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Bilingual Education Programs
Hammine, Madoka; Keskitalo, Pigga; Katjaana Sarivaara, Erika – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2020
Conducted in northern Finland, this study examines Sámi language teachers' professional identities through their narratives of language acquisition. We focus on how teachers' professional identities are shaped by their language acquisition process. The results are based on the narratives of nine North, Inari and Skolt Sámi language teachers. Two…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Personal Narratives
Pérez-Izaguirre, Elizabeth; Châteaureynaud, Marie-Anne; Amiama, José F. – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2021
This study focuses on Basque and Occitan teaching in southern France, where both are minority languages. More precisely, it aims to analyze teachers' view on the elements that enhance and hamper Basque and Occitan teaching. It considers the concept of phronesis or teacher effect to refer to the diverse strategies used by teachers to constantly…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Secondary School Teachers, Learning Processes, Student Motivation
Roman Etxebarrieta, Gorka; Pérez-Izaguirre, Elizabeth; Langarika-Rocafort, Argia – Education Sciences, 2020
The literature reveals the difficulty of teaching minority languages in multiethnic and multilingual regions. Studies about teachers' perceptions when instructing a minority language might help stakeholders to design interventions to overcome this problem. The first aim of this study was to describe teachers' perceptions of type of issues, student…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Languages
Villabona, Nerea; Cenoz, Jasone – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2022
Although the core element in CLIL and immersion programmes is the integration of content and language, it is challenging to achieve a balance between the two to meet the dual-objective of CLIL. Research on the beliefs teachers have about CLIL and the way they understand the role of content and language in their classes is crucial to achieve that…
Descriptors: Content and Language Integrated Learning, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Thingnes, Jorunn Simonsen – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2020
Sámi University of Applied Sciences (SUAS) in Norway is one of few institutions of higher education worldwide that mainly operates in an Indigenous language. According to the institution's vision, Indigenous peoples' values stand at the centre, and the Sámi language is heard and read daily. However, as an academic institution operating nationally…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Indigenous Populations, Native Language, Languages
Zhang, Qi; Yang, Ting – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
The medium of instruction (MoI) is regulated in the bilingual education of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in two ways. One requires most school subjects to be taught through Mandarin, whereas the other demands that all subjects be delivered with Mandarin as the MoI. A field trip to the capital city, Urumqi, was conducted in 2017 to investigate…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Ethnic Groups, Geographic Regions, Mandarin Chinese
Cenoz, Jasone; Gorter, Durk – Journal of Multilingual Education Research, 2019
This article focuses on minority languages in education in Europe in contexts where they are in contact with national state languages and English. Teaching minority language implies bilingual education because it is not about replacing the majority language, but to come 'alongside' or at 'equal footing'. The cases of Basque and Frisian, comparing…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Valadez, Concepción; Etxeberria, Feli; Intxausti, Nahia – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2015
In the Basque Country, Northern Spain, Basque (Euskera) and Spanish are official languages. In recent decades, Basque language revitalization and the efforts to make this an unmarked language (normalization) have co-existed with the rapid increase in immigration from outside the Basque region, and most recently from outside Spain. Given the…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Languages, Foreign Countries, Immigrants
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