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Tîrnovan, Daniela – International Journal for Mathematics Teaching and Learning, 2023
This investigation of translanguaging is grounded upon the ubiquitous theme of "structures" explicitly and implicitly found in the translanguaging literature. Through this theme, this paper begins by providing a novel theoretical framework followed by considering the need for translanguaging (e.g., education's growth of multilingualism;…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning, Native Language
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Cohrssen, Caroline; Slaughter, Yvette; Nicolas, Edith – TESOL in Context, 2021
Children are members of families and communities, and the languages learnt within these contexts contribute to a child's sense of "belonging, being and becoming" throughout life (Department of Education Employment and Workplace Relations, 2009). Encouraging children to bring their home languages into early childhood education and care…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Correlation, Native Language, Early Childhood Education
Knoors, Harry, Ed.; Marschark, Marc, Ed. – Oxford University Press, 2018
This volume presents the latest research from internationally recognized researchers and practitioners on language, literacy and numeracy, cognition, and social and emotional development of deaf learners. In their contributions, authors sketch the backgrounds and contexts of their research, take interdisciplinary perspectives in merging their own…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Multilingualism
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Ponciano, Leslie; Shabazian, Ani – Dimensions of Early Childhood, 2012
Early childhood educators work with children and families from a range of diverse backgrounds. As society becomes increasingly multiracial, multilingual, and multicultural, so too grows the need for educators' abilities to support children's development by instilling in them the tools they need to live together respectfully and stand up to…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Multilingualism, Cultural Pluralism, Intercultural Programs
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Rivas, Sonia; Sobrino, Angel; Peralta, Felisa – Early Child Development and Care, 2010
This article gives an account of the results from an assessment of an early childhood education programme, conducted over the course of two academic years (1999-2000 and 2000-2001), in a centre in northeastern Spain. The purpose of the assessment was to discover how a particular educational programme contributed to the short-term competency levels…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Foreign Countries