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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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Ping Zhang; Bob Adamson – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
Recent developments in multilingualism and multilingual education in minority-dominated regions in China highlight the importance of policy studies to support the national goals of achieving multilingualism [Feng, A. W., and B. Adamson, eds. 2015. "Trilingualism in Education in China: Models and Challenges." Dordrecht: Springer],…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Geographic Regions, Foreign Countries, Language Minorities
Karabassova, Laura – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2021
The research reported in this paper explored the implementation of a language-in-education policy in post-Soviet Kazakhstan, also known as trilingual education reform. Drawing on interviews with teachers and school administrators, the paper comparatively examines how the teaching of Sciences through the medium of English was implemented across two…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Turkic Languages, Russian
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Abdullaev, Ruslan – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2021
Uzbekistan is a multinational country where the Uzbek language remains the only official language within the country. While historically the Russian language has served the function of a "lingua franca" for ethnic minorities, and was often viewed as a second "mother tongue" within Uzbekistan, its status appears to be declining…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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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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Kulyk, Volodymyr – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2013
This article analyses school systems for two of Ukraine's minorities, the Hungarians and the Crimean Tatars with the aim of assessing their success in promoting ethnocultural identity and social integration of the minority youth. I demonstrate that the exclusive instruction in Hungarian ensures the reproduction of group language knowledge and…
Descriptors: Minority Groups, Foreign Countries, Self Concept, Social Integration
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Portisch, Anna – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2012
This article concerns educational and livelihood trajectories of the Kazakh minority in western Mongolia. It outlines the trajectories of individuals over four generations of a Kazakh family and contextualizes these within social, political, and economic context. It describes the importance of family networks and considers the concept of social…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Minority Groups, Time Perspective, Geographic Isolation
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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
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Beyreli, Latif – Education, 2009
Language and literature education in Turkey has searched its way through a variety of trials and errors since 1923, when the education heritage inherited from the Ottoman Empire was rebuilt upon a contemporary and laic foundation, and established upon modern foundations in 2005 with the assistance of a variety of curricula used after a long…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literature, Curriculum Development, Educational History