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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"bi/multilingual"”.
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Communicative practices in a bi-/multilingual, rural, fourth grade classroom in Kenya
Today, multilingualism in primary education is a reality that must be fully embraced in language and literacy research. Multilingualism is the norm in schools due to linguistic heterogeneity in classrooms. Despite the growth of bilingual education all over the world in the twenty-first century …
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Creando Maestros Científicos: Preparing Pre-Service Teachers to Teach Emergent Bi/Multilingual Students Science
Bilingual education takes many forms, but all forms are created to address the educational needs of emergent bi/multilingual students. These are students of all backgrounds, races, and ethnicities who are learning a new language in addition to academic content. Current research suggests that …
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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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Translanguaging About, With, and Through Code and Computing: Emergent Bi/multilingual Middle Schoolers Forging Computational Literacies
… experiences and language practices of emergent bi/multilingual K-12 students and use that knowledge to drive equitable pedagogical and programmatic approaches. But little is known about how emergent bi/multilingual students — a growing population that school systems have often viewed with …
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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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An Investigation of Practices, Resources, and Challenges in Mathematical Word Problem Solving among Swahili-speaking African High School Bi-/Multilingual Students in the United States
… groups. The findings of this study showed that bi-/multilinguals translanguage in mathematics where they use their LPRs in an integrated manner, not in isolation. Since bi-/multilingual students draw on various discursive practices, their mathematics practices are oftentimes informal, making it …
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Text Integration for the Multilingual Printed Page
… a broader understanding of the creation of a bi/multilingual ‘public informational’ document. Also, there was scrutiny of the underlying rationale(s) for the publication of such documents. The research then sought to develop criteria for the evaluation of bi/multilingual documents through …
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Talking Back to the ELPAC: Resilient Resistance and (Re)Imagining Through YPARt
… explores how an educator and 20 seventh-grade bi/multilingual Latinx students labeled long-term English learners (LTELs) reimagined how language is perceived, taught, and assessed across traditional schooling contexts and language policy landscapes. Drawing from LatCrit theory, Latina/Chicana …
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Constructing a pedagogical third space with multilingual children: A case study of the bilingual Stars of Today Literacy Club# (STLC#)
… thesis was motivated by my own family's language biography, and the social justice work I have been doing over the years in bi-multilingual education. This work has involved challenging the continuation of Apartheid language in education policy in practice in schools for Black African language …
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Language ideologies and Stakeholder responses to the proposed implementation of Mother Tongue-Based Bilingual Education in Grade 5 Natural Science.
… and responses towards Mother Tongue Based Bilingual education that has been proposed by the Department of Basic Education starting in 2025. First, it probes teacher's linguistic repertoires, their understandings of bi/multilingual education and their responses to the minister's proposition …
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Emotions and Multilingualism in L1 isiXhosa speakers: Measuring emotional resonance reduction using the RER-LX scale
The emotional weight that a bi-/ multilingual speaker may attach to the different languages in their linguistic repertoire, specifically, the phenomenon of emotional resonance, has been extensively researched in Northern contexts across a variety of languages and linguistic communities. Many …
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Linguistic capital and linguistic selves of bilingual and multilingual taiwanese adults: motivation and identity rebuilding in learning Taiwanese heritage languages, Mandarin, English and other foreign languages
Taiwan is populated by a multilingual community consisting of five major ethnic groups: Holo, Hakka, Mainlanders, Taiwanese aborigines and Taiwanese new immigrants. However, historic Mandarin-centric laws and policies detrimentally affected the identities and inheritance of local languages and …
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The Role of Language Ideologies in Curriculum Design: Possibilities in Computational and Digital Literacies Integration in Teacher Education
… especially those who are being trained to become bilingual teachers or will inevitably work with emergent bilinguals and linguistically diverse learners<a title=""><sup><sup>[1]</sup></sup></a>, as the intersections between CDLs and language are key to supporting these students. Equally important …
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Towards a bilingual graphic imaging system.
This research explored the development of a 'bilingual graphic imaging system'. The 'system' is 'sociocultural', where the two languages of communication are English and the lesser used language - Gaelic. The aim of the research was to investigate the parameters and potentials of bilingual graphic …
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Translanguaging and identities: Bilingual language and literacy practices in a Spanish-English two-way immersion classroom
… present study is to understand the complexity of bilinguals’ language and literacy practices in relation to the dynamics of identity construction in Spanish-English two- way immersion practices. For this reason, using a comparative case study, this study investigates both Spanish-English …
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The acquisition of Setswana phonology in children aged 2;0 – 6;5 years
… phonological development in monolingual vs multilingual children; and 3) contrast typical vs atypical Setswana speech acquisition and determine the occurrence and nature of speech sound disorders in children acquiring Setswana. The participant group comprised 81 children from the North-West …