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Shi, Lijuan – Journal of Career Development, 2022
Paraeducators play a marginal yet essential role in fulfilling teaching-related tasks in many international classrooms in China. In order to meet high standards of education, schools often provide professional training to paraeducators. However, in the training process, schools primarily focus on their own needs and rarely consider the personal…
Descriptors: Paraprofessional School Personnel, Bilingual Teacher Aides, Foreign Countries, Educational Needs
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Dan Liu; Yi Deng; Katherine Wimpenny – Teaching in Higher Education, 2024
Despite translanguaging pedagogy gaining increasing popularity among researchers, studies on students' perceptions and experiences of translanguaging pedagogy in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) settings in China remain limited. This mixed methods research bridges this gap by shareing the findings of both questionnaires (1008) and follow-up…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English for Academic Purposes, College Students, Student Attitudes
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Han, Jinghe – SpringerBriefs in Education, 2022
From the perspective of translanguaging and instruction theories, this Open Access book examines Chinese English Medium Instruction (EMI) lecturers' linguistic and pedagogical characteristics. This book demonstrate that 'English' in EMI is not a monolingual issue and EMI lecturers have applied their bilingual advantages to systematically and…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Bilingual Teachers, Cultural Influences
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Liu, Qian; Colak, Fatma Zehra; Agirdag, Orhan – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
The study of multilingualism has gained prominence due to increases in linguistically diverse student populations. This paper aims to contribute to research on multilingualism by addressing schoolteachers' beliefs and practices related to linguistic diversity. A unique sample of 606 teachers across ten minority-dominant schools from Southwest…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Culturally Relevant Education, Teaching Methods, Language Minorities
Kayi-Aydar, Hayriye, Ed.; Gao, Xuesong, Ed.; Miller, Elizabeth R., Ed.; Varghese, Manka, Ed.; Vitanova, Gergana, Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2019
This volume examines the agency of second/foreign language teachers in diverse geographical contexts and in both K-12 and adult education. It offers new understandings and conceptualizations of second/foreign language teacher agency through a variety of types of empirical data. It also demonstrates the use of different methodologies or analytic…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education, Adult Education
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Ye, Zhou – English Language Teaching, 2016
In present China, bilingual teaching, as an education model, can meet an urgent demand for increasing interdisciplinary talents who have high levels of professional knowledge as well as competent foreign language abilities to deal with the ever-increasing global social, economic, scientific and technological exchanges, and international…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Learning Motivation, Instructional Materials, Bilingual Teachers