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Jack Pun; Xuesong Gao – Language Awareness, 2024
Despite the increasing use of English as a medium of instruction (EMI), teachers who teach at EMI schools encounter significant challenges, such as difficulties in teaching content-subjects in English and students' limited understanding of content presented in English. To examine the extent of these challenges, six early-full and 14 late-partial…
Descriptors: Sino Tibetan Languages, Metalinguistics, Language of Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Abu Saleh Mohammad Rafi; Anne-Marie Morgan – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
The study investigated integrating a combined approach of translingualism and transculturalism in an anthropology content learning classroom of a Bangladeshi private university. Data were collected from classroom observation, a pedagogical intervention, a focus group discussion with six students, and a semi-structured interview with the class…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Language Usage, Code Switching (Language), Native Language
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Sujin Kim; Jung Yeon Park – Language Awareness, 2024
Framed by the concept of critical language awareness, this study validated a survey to assess teachers' ideological beliefs and attitudes toward English learners (ELs)/multilingual learners (MLs) in content classrooms. Employing exploratory factor analysis (EFA), the study identified three major constructs of teachers' beliefs and attitudes from a…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Content and Language Integrated Learning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Xu, Nuo; Sun, Wenyang; Valdez, Veronica E. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2023
This study draws on the theoretical construct of critical consciousness to explore secondary Chinese DLBE teachers' barriers to developing critical consciousness in the classroom. Employing a narrative inquiry approach, we explore the general struggles Chinese DLBE teachers face in classrooms, focusing on understanding their barriers to…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Secondary School Teachers, Barriers, Personal Narratives
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Binod Luitel; Kamal Kumar Poudel; Uma Nath Sharma; Tek Mani Karki – TEFLIN Journal: A publication on the teaching and learning of English, 2023
Drawing on the lived experiences of three community school English teachers in Nepal, this article explores the uses of the learners' first language (L1) in English as a foreign/second language (ESL) classes. As the data, we collected the written lived-experience descriptions from the teachers, observed their classes, and interviewed them. We…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Usage, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Jalal, Shumaila; Nawab, Ali – Cogent Education, 2022
This research aimed to explore the possibility of using Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) approach for the development of students' Second Language (L2) skills and content in the subject of Chemistry. To achieve this purpose, action research method was used to implement CLIL approach at grade 7 consisting of 30 students. The research…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Barriers, Content and Language Integrated Learning, Native Language
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Macaro, Ernesto; Tian, Lili; Chu, Lingmin – Language Teaching Research, 2020
Although there is a wealth of research on the use of the first language (L1) in English as a foreign language (EFL) classrooms, there is as yet very little research of this kind in classrooms where the prime pedagogical objective is to teach academic content through English as a second language (English medium instruction; EMI). It is important to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Language of Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Criss, Marika K. – Language Policy, 2021
Although national and EU policies and recommendations encourage varied language learning, English has ruled as the most studied foreign language, while other languages are decreasingly being studied in basic and upper secondary education in Finland. The purpose of this paper is to examine the implications of this development in practice.…
Descriptors: Marketing, Finno Ugric Languages, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Rowland, Leonie; Murray, Neil – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2020
This article reports on a small-scale qualitative study designed to explore lecturers' and students' experiences of teaching and learning on a recently-implemented MSc programme in Biomedical Sciences taught in the medium of English at an Italian university. A focus group format was employed to interview twelve students on the programme, and…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes, English (Second Language), Language of Instruction
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Sund, Per; Gericke, Niklas – Environmental Education Research, 2020
In many countries' policy documents and curricula, teachers in the subject areas of science, social science and language are encouraged to collaborate on cross-curricular issues such as sustainable development (SD). This study is conducted in secondary schools (compulsory years 7-9) in Sweden and investigates the similarities and differences in…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Sustainable Development, Secondary School Students, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Navarro Martell, Melissa Arabel – Association of Mexican American Educators Journal, 2021
Language usage in US K-12 classrooms and beyond continues to be an issue of equity (Navarro Martell, 2021; Palmer et al., 2019). Teachers expect racialized students who appear to be Latinx to know and perform as if their native language is Spanish, mientras a otros se les celebra sus intentos de usar el espan~ol; otro idioma colonizador. Some…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Language Usage, Code Switching (Language), Spanish
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Couper, Graeme – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2021
This article reviews questions that non-native (NNEST) and native speaker (NEST) teachers, working in different contexts, have about pronunciation teaching. It draws on theory, research, and practice to answer those questions as far as possible. The data was collected across two projects that investigated teachers' cognitions: their knowledge,…
Descriptors: Pronunciation Instruction, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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van Kampen, Evelyn; Meirink, Jacobiene; Admiraal, Wilfried; Berry, Amanda – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2020
In the past two decades, content and language integrated learning (CLIL) has seen a surge in uptake, especially in European schools offering forms of bilingual education. This article reports a study investigating practitioner and specialist perceptions about the goals and practices of CLIL in the Netherlands, one of few countries where CLIL…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Course Content, Interdisciplinary Approach, Language of Instruction
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Duarte, Joana – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2020
In the context of multilingual education, translanguaging has been put forward as a means of including several languages in education. However, teachers often assess translanguaging-based approaches as being too vague and idealist. This study discusses data from two settings (Luxembourg and Netherlands) in which teachers working in design-based…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning, Native Language
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Chichon, Jagon P. – Journal of English as an International Language, 2018
A multi-method approach was used to understand the attitudes of English Language Teachers working in universities in Japan to first language use (L1) in the second language (L2) classroom. Findings indicate that instructors recognise the benefits of the L1 and have awareness of current empirical findings, though, their approach is highly dependent…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Teacher Attitudes, Language Proficiency
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