Essays about: "bilingual instruction"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 essays containing the words bilingual instruction.

1. 1. “Hoy seguimos hablando y hoy estamos retomando la escritura del namui wam”  (Today we continue to speak (Namui Wam) and today we take back the writing of Namui Wam) : A case study of Language Practices and Ideologies of Namui Wam in a Misak school of Guambía

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Centrum för tvåspråkighetsforskning

   Author : Nina Riedel; [2021]
   Keywords : ;

   Abstract : This study aims to shed more light on the role indigenous languages have in bilingual education by focusing on the language use of Namui Wam in a Misak school of the territory of Guambía in Cauca, Colombia. Based on a critical linguistic ethnographical approach, this study investigates language ideologies and linguistic practices among teachers and students. READ MORE

3. 2. Latvian Language Policy : Unifying or Polarizing? Reconstructing the Political Debate on Language Reform in the Latvian Education System

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för ekonomisk och industriell utveckling

   Author : Samuel Holm; [2020]
   Keywords : Latvia; language policy; nationalism; imagined community; national unity;

   Abstract : Languages are not just systems for communication, they are also often a marker of ethnic and/or national identity and sometimes a politically contentious issue. A country where this is the case is Latvia, which has a large Russian-speaking population. During the Soviet occupation of Latvia, Russian became the dominant language in public life. READ MORE

4. 3. Lived Experiences of a High-Status Language in a Low-Status Medium : Swedish Bilingual Students’ Investment in English Mother Tongue Instruction

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för språkdidaktik

   Author : Scarlett Mannish; [2019]
   Keywords : Cultural Capita; Language Hegemony; Investment; Lived Experiences; Monoglossic Practices; Mother Tongue Instruction; Third Space;

   Abstract : Sweden is one of few countries offering mother tongue instruction (MTI) to students in compulsory education with a native language other than Swedish. Traditionally research has focussed on the benefits of MTI as a space for the development of minority languages despite the logistical and ideological hindrances in execution that have resulted in the subject’s low status. READ MORE

5. 4. Young bilingual Swedish learners in the English classroom : A study comparing the learners and teachers language use

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för språkdidaktik

   Author : Rebecca Lakey; [2017]
   Keywords : Bilingualism; multilingualism; mother tongue; scaffolding; translanguaging;

   Abstract : This paper investigates and identifies patterns of classroom languages use by both learners and teachers in the English learning classroom. In order to answer the research questions guiding the present study, data were collected both from learners (n= 36) and their teachers (n= 3). READ MORE

6. 5. First Language Use in Second and Foreign Language Teaching

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation

   Author : Andreas Berlin; Kajsa Hammarström; [2016]
   Keywords : First language; second language; foreign language; code-switching; medium of instruction; second language acquisition; Förstaspråk; andraspråk; främmandespråk; code-switching; undervisningsspråk; andraspråksinlärning;

   Abstract : The Swedish curriculum for the subject English in upper secondary school clearly states the English should be used“as far as possible” in the classroom. However, the possible amount of first language usage is never mentioned. READ MORE