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Sibongile J. Mahan; Nkidi C. Phatudi; Matshediso R. Modise – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2024
Background: Language discussions have historically focused on the power dynamics between dominant and indigenous languages. This has generated discontent and contention on which language should rule the educational sector. The national language policy of South Africa mandates the use of all languages in the educational system. Even though there…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Bilingual Education, Code Switching (Language)
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Phyak, Prem – Modern Language Journal, 2023
This article theorizes translanguaging as a space of simultaneity to analyze how teachers use translanguaging to create a multilingual classroom space and engage students with their multilingual identities and epistemologies in the classroom. The data in this article are drawn from an ethnographic study of language policies and practices in a…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Translation, Bilingualism, Language Usage
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Menon, Shailaja; Pallavi – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2022
Multilingual education is an urgent and pressing concern in the Indian educational scenario. While the National Education Policy (2020) acknowledges multilingualism as a resource in educational contexts and reiterates earlier policies calling for mother tongue-based education in elementary classrooms, it does not provide guidance in terms of how…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Bilingual Education, Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction
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Talip Gülle; Yasemin Bayyurt – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2024
While translanguaging has gained significant traction as a theory of language that holds implications for educational settings with students from various language backgrounds, its viability in content assessment remains an unresolved issue. Students in English-medium instruction (EMI) programs at a private university in Türkiye participated in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Colleges, Academic Language, Language of Instruction
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Olha Luchenko; Olha Doronina; Yevhen Chervinko – Advanced Education, 2024
Purpose: This article examines the use of English medium instruction (EMI) for teaching Japanese as a foreign language (JFL) by non-native speakers with a focus on multilingual classrooms. It also explores teachers' positive and negative beliefs about using EMI in classroom settings for JFL instruction. Methods and procedure: 274 non-native…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Multilingualism, Japanese, Language Teachers
Corey T. Larsen – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This phenomenological study explores the experiences of machine translation (MT) use among Chinese undergraduates in a Chinese-foreign, English medium instruction (EMI), joint degree program in southern China. Advancements in MT technology have raised questions about its application in academic settings, particularly in foreign and second language…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Translation, Artificial Intelligence, Foreign Countries
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Muguruza, Beñat; Cenoz, Jasone; Gorter, Durk – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
English medium education at university level is widely used in different contexts and it poses a challenge for students who are not used to studying through the medium of English. This study was carried out in a university in the Basque Country in Spain and it focuses on a course where students who are mostly Basque-Spanish bilinguals are taught…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Code Switching (Language), Translation
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Heather Dunham; Erica Holyoke; Katie Crook – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2024
This qualitative study explores intersections between U.S. language policies (federal and state-level) and instructional practice in early childhood settings for multilingual learners (MLs). We draw on the theoretical framework of culturally sustaining pedagogy to engage in a critical content analysis of U.S. federal and state-level policy from…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Early Childhood Education, Educational Policy, Language of Instruction
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Sah, Pramod K.; Li, Guofang – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
While other languages can be used in English-medium instruction (EMI) classrooms, little research has been conducted on the alignment of the use of these languages with the objectives of EMI policy and how bi/multilingual practices such as translanguaging respond to the sociopolitics of EMI classrooms. This case study examined both teachers' and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Translation, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Karabulut, Aslihan; Kesli Dollar, Yesim – Participatory Educational Research, 2022
Despite the blurred boundaries among languages and classroom evidence contrary to the implementation of monolingual pedagogies, the dominance of monolingual policies for teaching foreign languages continues to persist. To provide foreign language learners with an appropriate bilingual pedagogy and target one of the most challenging second language…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Translation, Bilingual Education
Ocampo, Darrel – Online Submission, 2023
This study investigated the connection between translanguaging and reading comprehension of Filipino ESL intermediate learners. The respondents were intermediate pupils enrolled in the selected central schools in Bicol, Philippines. The respondents' ages range from 8 to 12 years old, and 124 students (27.55%) were males while 326 students (72.44%)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Code Switching (Language), Translation, Bilingualism
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Yuerong Jing; E. Dimitris Kitis – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
While translanguaging has been adequately researched in various educational sectors, there is scant research at the primary-level English-L2 classroom in the Chinese educational context. Within a monolingual English-only immersion policy favoured by the state in China for many decades now, translanguaging has been a debated issue recently. Within…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Bilingualism
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Emilia, Emi; Hamied, Fuad Abdul – TEFLIN Journal: A publication on the teaching and learning of English, 2022
This paper presents partial results of an ethnographic study in 2021, aiming to identify translanguaging (TL) practices (the use of Indonesian and English), their functions and benefits, and the participants' opinions about such practices in a tertiary English as a foreign language (EFL) context in Indonesia. The study involved 75 participants in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Translation, Language Usage, Bilingual Students
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Karlsson, Annika; Nygård Larsson, Pia; Jakobsson, Anders – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2020
This article aims to explore and clarify how students' use of first and second languages in a translanguaging science classroom (TSC) may affect the continuity of learning in science. In a TSC, participants can use all available language resources, in all meaning-making situations. An ethnographic data collection and research design is used to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Science Education
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Hu, Hengzhi – Arab World English Journal, 2022
The success of bilingual immersion programmes has promoted the debate about whether learners' first language (L1) should be used in foreign language classrooms. Nevertheless, Content and Language Integrated Learning, a pedagogical approach embedded in the development of multilingualism and multiliteracy theories, has overstepped the monolingual…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Language Usage, English (Second Language), Undergraduate Students
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