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Lightfoot, Amy; Balasubramanian, Anusha; Tsimpli, Ianthi; Mukhopadhyay, Lina; Treffers-Daller, Jeanine – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
India's linguistic diversity is reflected in classrooms across the country, where multiple languages are used by teachers and learners to negotiate meaning and instruction -- a multilingual, multicultural student body is the norm, whether in urban or rural contexts. This study documents teaching practices in English language and maths lessons in…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Kimathi, Faith K.; Bertram, Carol – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Literacy Association of South Africa, 2020
Background: Despite South Africa's huge investment in professional development, there is not a lot of research that shows that teachers change their teaching practices by attending formal interventions. This article focuses on English as First Additional Language (EFAL) and explores how one Grade 2 teacher changed her practice of oral language…
Descriptors: Oral Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Dowling, Tessa; Krause, Lara – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2019
A Grade 4 English language teacher in a township school in Cape Town, South Africa, in her quest to equip learners with new target language resources, is not held back by the perceived boundaries dividing named languages. Instead she employs language in creative and goal-directed ways that we believe have not received enough focused linguistic…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Slum Schools, Grade 4, Elementary School Students