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Integrating Translanguaging Pedagogy into Italian Primary Schools: Implications for Language Practices and Children's Empowerment
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Carbonara, Valentina; Scibetta, Andrea – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
The present contribution aims at describing the main phases of implementation of a Transformative Action-Research project named 'L'AltRoparlante'. This project began in school year 2016/2017 and is still being implemented in five Italian multilingual schools. Its main purpose is to acknowledge students' individual and collective multilingual…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Native Language, Multilingualism, Action Research
The Effects of Multilingual Teaching Materials on Pupils' Understanding of Geographical Content in the Classroom
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Repplinger, Nikolaus Paul; Budke, Alexandra – Journal of Curriculum and Teaching, 2022
The article sounds the potentials of multilingualism as a resource for geography lessons. In detail, it examines the use of multilingual teaching media and their effect on the comprehension of the content. First, the potentials of multilingualism for geography lessons are theoretically developed. After the development and adaption of the material,…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Geography Instruction, Instructional Materials, German
Italian in the Mainstream Schools of the Bilingual Border Area of the Slovenian Coast: Language Policy, Teachers' Perspectives and a Vision for the Future
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Cavaion, Irina M. – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2020
The Italian language in the ethnically mixed coastal area of Slovenia is an official language, regulated by the principle of ethnic autochthony, which recognizes the rights of linguistic minorities regardless of their number of speakers. Slovenia has been always very sensitive toward its two national minorities (Italian and Hungarian) and set up…
Descriptors: Italian, Ethnic Groups, Diversity, Official Languages
Narrative Skills in Written Texts by Deaf and Hearing Bilingual Adolescents
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Teruggi, Lilia A.; Gutiérrez-Cáceres, Rafaela – Reading Psychology, 2015
Most studies on narrative competence have focused on monolingual subjects, and there are very few studies which address this issue in bilingual subjects dealing with two language systems. In the present case study we analyzed and compared the textual and narrative written skills of three deaf and three hearing adolescents attending eighth grade at…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Deafness, Comparative Analysis, Bilingualism