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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"multilingual education"”.
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MULTILINGUAL EDUCATION AND EDUCATION POLICIES IN TAIWAN PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS: TEACHERS’ PERSPECTIVE AND EXPERIENCE
… in growing interest in multicultural and multilingual education. The purpose of the present study was to explore public elementary school teachers’ perspectives and experiences regarding the implementation of education policies for new immigrants and their children through an in-depth …
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Characteristics of Selected Multilingual Education Programs from Around the World: A Review of the Literature
… Unz & Vega, 1998). ‘English-Only’ and ‘bilingual education’ policies have dominated the discourse of policy makers, educators and the body public as the two primary possibilities to deal with the challenges facing educators in classrooms across the U. S. at the present time. Some scholars have …
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Finally Shedding the Past: Filipino Teachers Negotiate Their Identities Within a New Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education Policy Landscape
… Identities Within a New Mother-Tongue-Based Multilingual Education Policy Landscape Diane E. Dekker Doctor of Philosophy Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning Ontario Institute of Studies in Education of the University of Toronto 2016 Abstract Language issues in education raise …
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Analysis of the use of mother tongue based-multilingual education (MTB-MLE) strategies by teachers in lower primary grades in Chongwe rural district.
… investigated the use of Mother Tongue Based Multilingual Education strategies by teachers at Primary level in Chongwe Rural District. The study is informed by the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Ruiz’s three language orientation theories. Adopting a descriptive research design, the …
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Analysis of the use of mother tongue based-multilingual education (MTB-MLE) strategies by teachers in lower primary grades in Chongwe rural district.
… investigated the use of Mother Tongue Based Multilingual Education strategies by teachers at Primary level in Chongwe Rural District. The study is informed by the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Ruiz’s three language orientation theories. Adopting a descriptive research design, the …
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Perspectives on bi/multilingual pedagogies: insights from a third-year linguistics module at a South African university
… 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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Language Attitudes and Code-switching Behaviour in a Multilingual Educational Context: The Case of Luxembourg
… and code-switching behaviour in Luxembourg’s multilingual education system. Through a large-scale questionnaire study of language attitudes and an ethnographic study of attitudes and multilingual classroom behaviour, this study aims to examine the role of socio-psychological, socio-political …
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Elementary school teachers' attitudes towards multilingualism and language policy: Kazan, Russia
… Contributions of language policy, TESOL and multilingual education, and linguistic anthropology help understand the role of teachers in language education. Of particular interests are teachers’ attitudes towards multilingualism and language policies, namely, the learning and teaching of …
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Qualitative study of some effects of using English as a language of instruction at Standard 2 and 5 in the Botswana education system, where learners are not primary language speakers of English
… study is to address the issue of language in education policy in Botswana where English is used as a language of instruction at the lower levels of primary education, in this instance focusing on grades 2 and 5. Bearing in mind that English is not the learners' first language, this …
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Language ideologies and Stakeholder responses to the proposed implementation of Mother Tongue-Based Bilingual Education in Grade 5 Natural Science.
… 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 of Mother …
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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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Stories of California Mini-Corps Tutors: Exploring the Experiences of Bilingual Latinx Early Preservice Teachers
… EPSTs’ perspectives as they move from being multilingual students educated in English-only environments to future credential program students and bilingual teachers. This critical qualitative case study examined this process as students engaged in school-based fieldwork through the California …
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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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“Implications of South Africa’s new language policy with special references to the implementation of African languages as media of instruction”
… media of instruction, at pre-tertiary level of education. The most critical and relevant linguistic aspects examined here, takes into account the issue of multilingualism in education or multilingual education (particularly the issues that still handicaps it), the development of African …
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Multimodal analysis of instructional materials and vocabulary learning in EFL and CLIL instruction
Grounded in a conceptualization of bilingual and multilingual education as flexible processes that host a variety of experiences and contexts (Dewaele et al., 2003; Grosjean, 2008), the present doctoral dissertation explores the effect of the instructional approach, English as a Foreign Language …
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The heritage language acquisition and education of an indigenous group in Taiwan: An ethnographic study of Atayals in an elementary school
… methods to investigate the learning and education of the heritage language of a group of indigenous students in Taiwan. Traditionally, their heritage language, Atayal, was not written. Also, Atayal was taught at schools only recently. As one of Austronesian language families, Atayal …
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Constructing a pedagogical third space with multilingual children: A case study of the bilingual Stars of Today Literacy Club# (STLC#)
… 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 speaking children, the neglect of the multilingual Language in Education Policy …
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Idioma com a veu: Teacher perspectives on language policy in Catalonia
… instruction methods and identity formation in multilingual, multicultural classrooms.
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Providing outreach to families of youth with disabilities from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds by working with cultural groups and community organizations
This qualitative study explored how informal community networks (i.e., faith based organizations, community cultural centers and service agencies) provided information to culturally and linguistically diverse families. The goals of this study were, first, to gain a better understanding of the …
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Ilimi Haské: Learning in an Unequal World
… Republic which has some of the lowest rates of educational attainment and which also presents a unique case for analysis of within-country inequality. Despite the expansion of access to education, including in rural areas, learning outcomes remain extremely low, particularly in low-income …
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