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Caterina Sugrañes – Educational Linguistics, 2021
This chapter discusses how a Dominant Language Constellation approach to teaching and learning languages can be highly beneficial in diverse learning contexts in which languages that are brought to school by pupils coexist with curricula languages. A Dominant Language Constellation approach to teaching and learning languages is described in this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Elementary School Students, Language Usage
Kristin Lems; Tenena M. Soro; Gareth Charles – Guilford Press, 2024
Now in a revised and expanded third edition, this established course text and teacher guide explores the processes involved in second-language acquisition and translates the research into practical instructional strategies for PreK-12. Engaging classroom vignettes and personal reflections from the authors and other seasoned educators bring the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Multilingualism, Bilingual Students
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Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer – Language and Education, 2024
This paper reports on a research project which asked scholars to speak about their multilingual and collaborative academic practices. This case study sheds light on the complex and multilayered linguistic choices made by multilingual scholars to comply with the diverse requirements of a multilingual academic life, namely the adoption of EMI…
Descriptors: College Faculty, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Teacher Attitudes
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Rui Yuan; Mo Li; Jing Peng; Xuyan Qiu – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Drawing upon a collection of curriculum proposals and reflections and informed by a textual analysis approach, this study investigated how 234 university teachers planned to enact and reform their English-medium instruction courses (n = 66) in an English as a foreign language (EFL) university context. Results reveal that the teachers tend to adopt…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Higher Education
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Latisha Mary; Véronique Lemoine-Bresson; Anne Choffat-Dürr – Language Awareness, 2024
Many educators in immersion contexts support a policy of strict separation of languages in the classroom as the ideal model for second language acquisition and are reluctant to make connections between the dominant language, the target language and pupils' home languages. This can result in missed opportunities for drawing on pupils' entire…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, French, Immersion Programs, Elementary School Students
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Jinsook Choi – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This paper explores the ways in which apology functions as a stance act at public speech events. Rather than focusing on speakers' intentions, in this study I pay attention to indexical meanings associated with apologies in a specific context. The study primarily analyses apology sequences that involve code-switching, which were drawn from…
Descriptors: Korean, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language of Instruction
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Tibor Toró – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
In Romania most Hungarian-speaking children study in their mother tongue, in Hungarian-language classes. Some of these are organised in 'mixed schools', where parallel Hungarian and Romanian classes coexist in the same institution. Although these institutions seem a good solution for inter-ethnic coexistence, no systematic research has been…
Descriptors: Hungarian, Romance Languages, Native Language, Language of Instruction
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Ada Bier; David Lasagabaster – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Since educators play a decisive role in the formation of language attitudes, this study analyses perceived competence, habits of language use and attitudes towards three languages in contact harboured by prospective teachers. Our research replicates a 20-year-old study and is comparative, as it parallels two European regions: the Basque Autonomous…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Language Attitudes
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Eva Mikuska; Judit Raffai; Éva Vukov Raffai – Global Studies of Childhood, 2024
In 2018 a new, more inclusive concept, of preschool education was adopted in Serbia with plans to implement the change from September 2019 to 2022. This paper examines how the national reform in Early Childhood Education (ECE) was perceived by Hungarian kindergarten pedagogues, who are the largest ethnic minority group in Vojvodina, Serbia. To…
Descriptors: Intersectionality, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Kindergarten
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Goldenberg, Claude – Reading Research Quarterly, 2020
Learning and developing as a reader are more complicated in a language the reader is simultaneously learning to speak and understand. This challenge is faced by millions of English learners (ELs) who are in all-English programs and must therefore learn to read, write, and develop as readers and writers while learning and becoming proficient in…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Reading Instruction, Language of Instruction, Second Language Learning
Fitzsimons, Sinéad; Coleman, Victoria; Greatorex, Jackie; Salem, Hiba; Johnson, Martin – Research Matters, 2020
The Learning Passport (LP) is a collaborative project between the University of Cambridge, UNICEF and Microsoft, which aims to support the UNICEF goal of providing quality education provision for children and youth whose education has been disrupted by crisis or disaster. A core component of this project is a curriculum framework for Mathematics,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Emergency Programs, International Programs, Guidelines
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Omidire, Margaret Funke – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
This article reports on the utilization of group discussion by teachers to improve the comprehension skills of learners in their multilingual classes. The study aimed to examine solutions to low comprehension skills among learners whose language of instruction differed from their home languages. The participants were teachers (n = 12) and learners…
Descriptors: Group Discussion, Language of Instruction, Comprehension, Language Skills
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Karabassova, Laura – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
The research reported in this paper explored secondary Science teachers' experiences in a large-scale and top-down CLIL initiative where schools and teachers had little agency in implementing educational change. Through a grounded theory approach, analysis of data suggests that teachers' insufficient English language proficiency and the lack of…
Descriptors: Content and Language Integrated Learning, Secondary School Teachers, Science Teachers, Teaching Experience
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Brown, Martin; Altrichter, Herbert; Shiyan, Igor; Rodríguez Conde, María José; McNamara, Gerry; Herzog-Punzenberger, Barbara; Vorobyeva, Irina; Vangrando, Valentina; Gardezi, Sarah; O'Hara, Joe; Postlbauer, Alexandra; Milyaeva, Daria; Sergeevna, Natalia; Fulterer, Sieglinde; García, Adriana Gamazo; Sánchez, Lourdes – Policy Futures in Education, 2022
Whether voluntary or enforced, increasing patterns of migration have significantly impacted schools by making them linguistically, culturally, religiously and ethnically more diverse than ever before. This increasing diversity requires school leaders to put in place mechanisms to ensure equity of participation for migration background students.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Leadership Styles, Cultural Relevance, Cultural Awareness
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Helm, Francesca – ELT Journal, 2022
COVID-19 led to a transition to 'remote emergency teaching' in higher-education contexts across the globe. The impact of this on English-medium education in multilingual university settings (EMEMUS) contexts is yet to be fully understood, but it is clear that it will be long lasting. This article outlines three online pedagogic activities that…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Variation
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