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Immigrant Minority Languages and Multilingual Education in Europe: A Literature Review
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Elizabeth Pérez-Izaguirre; Gorka Roman; María Orcasitas-Vicandi – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
Immigrant minority (IM) languages have a significant presence in certain European regions. Nonetheless, these languages are not usually included in the school curriculum. This paper aims to analyse the studies published between 2010 and 2020 considering IM languages in multilingual European education contexts. The method included a search of…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Language Minorities, Multilingualism, Foreign Countries
Struggling to Teach "Those Who Struggle". The Education of Newly Arrived Students with Limited Schooling in Two Swedish Compulsory Schools
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Malin Brännström; Andreas Ottemo – Education Inquiry, 2024
This study examines the teaching of a student group that is often overlooked in research and policy: newly arrived adolescent students with limited previousexperience of formal schooling (NALS). Drawing on ethnographic data produced at two junior high schools with different reception models for newly arrived students, we asked how NALS were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Prior Learning, Junior High Schools, Second Language Learning
Has Language as Resource Been the Basis for Mother-Tongue Instruction in Sweden? On the Evolution of Policy Orientations towards a Uniquely Enduring Bilingual Policy
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Memet Aktürk-Drake – Language Policy, 2024
This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the motivations that key policy documents have put forward as justifications for Sweden's mother-tongue instruction in immigrant and historical minority languages as a multicultural policy that has endured for nearly half a century. The diachronic development of these motivations is analysed in four…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Native Language, Native Language Instruction
Students' Reasons for Community Language Schooling: Links to a Heritage or Capital for the Future?
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Nordstrom, Janica – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
Community language schools have grown to become significant educational language providers worldwide. Schools operate as global grassroot initiatives (Liddicoat and Taylor-Leech [2014]. "Micro Language Planning for Multilingual Education: Agency in Local Contexts." "Current Issues in Language Planning" 15 (3): 237-244.), and…
Descriptors: Community Schools, Native Language Instruction, Bilingual Education, Immigrants
Developing and Evaluating Quality Bilingual Practices in Higher Education
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Rubio-Alcalá, Fernando D., Ed.; Coyle, Do, Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2021
This book provides an overview and evaluation of the quality of bilingual education found in internationalised higher education institutions. Its authors focus on the multifaceted roles that language(s) play in these growing multilingual spaces and analyse and identify the many factors that account for quality multilingual degree programmes. The…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Bilingual Education, Educational Quality, International Education
Policy and Practice for Multilingual Educational Settings: Comparisons across Contexts. Bilingual Education & Bilingualism
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Björklund, Siv, Ed.; Björklund, Mikaela, Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2023
Exploring multilingualism as a complex, context-related, societal and individual phenomenon, this book centres around perspectives on how multiple languages are made (in)visible within educational settings in the Global North. The authors of each chapter compare and contrast findings across geographical contexts with the goal of understanding the…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Educational Policy, Educational Practices, Interdisciplinary Approach