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Harwati, Lusia Neti – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2018
Previous studies on Javanese language emphasized more on the use of this local language in certain communities and ignored the importance of teaching and learning at an elementary school level in order to preserve the language. The purpose of this study was to describe the lives of the participants, collect and tell stories about their lives, and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Indonesian Languages, Native Language Instruction, Language Maintenance
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Chung, Tzemin; Anderson, Neil; Leong, Munkew; Choy, Waiyin – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
This paper details results from a three-year study investigating how to help students in Singapore write vivid compositions in Mandarin, the Chinese "mother tongue". Mastery of the mother tongue by Singaporean students has become an important government priority in recent years. The strategies employed by this study included the use of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Mandarin Chinese, Native Language Instruction