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?ynyshtyk Nurdauletovna Yermekova; Didar Ryskulbek; Gaini Azimova; Bizhomart Kapalbek; Talant Mawkanuli – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2024
The article examines the current situation of language instruction in higher educational institutions in the Republic of Kazakhstan. Higher educational institutions play a crucial role in providing professional training in the country. The official language strategy focuses on developing the Kazakh language as the language of science. The…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Drummond, Todd; Nakamura, Pooja Reddy – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
The "early grade reading assessment" (EGRA) is frequently used in low and middle-income countries to inform the state of reading outcomes and reading instruction (Dubeck & Gove, 2015). Although the EGRA has been administered in languages with varying orthographies and scripts, there is little research on the cross-linguistic…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Factor Analysis, Grade 2, Grade 4
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Meskill, Carla; Sadykova, Gulnara; Kayumova, Albina – Bilingual Research Journal, 2020
There is vast potential for digital screens to support early bilingualism. For the most part, however, young children require human mediation with what is generated by screens in order for language and pre-literacy learning to occur. What does that mediation look like when multimodal elements are designed to support children's language and culture…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Language Acquisition, Russian, Second Language Learning
Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2019
Language planning and policy has evolved from considering policy as one of states' affairs at its early stages to how policy actors exercise their agency to appropriate and enact policy in micro and local contexts. Ethnography of language policy is predominantly used today to explore why policies are enacted in a certain way and not otherwise,…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Policy Analysis, Ethnography, Social Theories
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Ping, Wang – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2016
There is a trend towards the shift of the Uyghur language as the language of instruction in schools in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China. This article presents several examples of such a shift first and then it reviews the concept of language rights (LR) and applies them to the current situation of the Uyghur language in education…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Language Maintenance, Language Minorities, Foreign Countries
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Isik-Ercan, Zeynep – Childhood Education, 2012
Children's participation in cultural activities within the community, and the particular cognitive and socioemotional skills that they gain as a result of their participation, have been thoroughly studied (Cole, 1990; Gallimore & Tharp, 1990; Moll et al., 2005; Scribner & Cole, 1981). However, the connection of these skills to school learning or…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Emotional Development, Muslims, Cultural Activities