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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Bi/multilingualism"”.
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Community College Faculty Perceptions and Use of Pedagogical Translanguaging in the Academic ESL Classroom
… years of ESL teaching experience as well as with bi/multilingualism. Bi/multilingualism was also positively significantly correlated with knowledge of translanguaging. Two statistically significant negative correlations were discovered: both actual use of translanguaging in the classroom and …
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Perspectives on bi/multilingual pedagogies: insights from a third-year linguistics module at a South African university
… which illustrates the need for and advantages of bi/multilingual education in South Africa. In recent years, academics have noted that bi/multilingual learning materials and assessments can be used to provide students, in both schools and higher education institutions, with a more nuanced …
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Supporting multilingualism in Michigan schools: Educator perspectives on language education and the seal of biliteracy
… social benefits. Despite evidence in favor of bi/multilingualism, and a growing multilingual American population, bilingual education programs are scarce in the United States, foreign language education programs are being eliminated at an alarming rate, and English learners often do not receive …
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Semiotic and Discursive Displays of Tamazight Identity on Facebook: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Revitalization Efforts in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia
… to contest Arabo-Islamic ideology, pan-Arabism, and Arabicization policies that pushed Tunisian <em>Tamazight</em> to a status of endangerment. Counter-erasure is also a means to reproduce an oppositional-ideological language discourse that corresponds to the hegemonic discourses of …
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Using semiotic resources to teach and assess scientific concepts in a bilingual Namibian primary school: A socio-cultural discourse analysis
The Namibian school system subscribes to a separatist language policy and ideology that advocates the use of monolingual English as Medium of instruction (MO1) as well as conducting all written assessments from Grade 4 and beyond in English. Despite Namibia being a multilingual country, the …
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The language socialisation experiences of a grade r child in a black middle-class multilingual family
… Language in Education Policy (LIEP) identifies multilingualism as one of the defining characteristics of its citizenry (DOE, 1997). Moreover, English is the official Language of Learning and Teaching (LOLT) in most ex-Model C schools nationwide. It is the language that is reported to be valued …
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Percieved linguistic and communicative competence of bi/multilingual autistic children in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
… investigated the linguistic and communicative ability of children with ASD. The study specifically focused on the nature of socio-communication traits of children with autism in KwaZulu-Natal and sought to identify ways to enhance their linguistic and communicative skills. The main research …
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A case study of multimodal and authoritative meaning making in grade 5 isiZulu, English, and Natural Sciences lessons in a quintile 1 primary school
… activities in monolingual English, following bilingual oral classroom talk. Last, there is a similar communicative pattern across isiZulu, English, and natural sciences lessons. That is, the educators' pedagogical discourse was authoritative and interactional to a limited extent even in the …