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Download full text?ynyshtyk Nurdauletovna Yermekova; Didar Ryskulbek; Gaini Azimova; Bizhomart Kapalbek; Talant Mawkanuli – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2024
The article examines the current situation of language instruction in higher educational institutions in the Republic of Kazakhstan. Higher educational institutions play a crucial role in providing professional training in the country. The official language strategy focuses on developing the Kazakh language as the language of science. The…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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This study examines how language ideologies are negotiated and navigated in a linguistically diverse kindergarten group in Germany, focusing on the multilingual language practices of teachers and children. Drawing on data generated during 3months of focused linguistic ethnographic fieldwork, I analyse situations in which children and teachers…
Descriptors: Polish, German, Kindergarten, Foreign Countries
Dupuy, Béatrice, Ed.; Grosbois, Muriel, Ed. – Research-publishing.net, 2020
In this volume, language learning and professionalization are explored by addressing the existing gap between pressing needs for enhanced soft skills in work environments wherein technology-mediated, multilingual communication is increasingly the norm, and current foreign language teaching and learning offerings in higher education. Considering…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Professionalism
Ülavere, Pärje; Tammik, Anu – Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability, 2017
For systematic implementation of value education in educational institutions, the national programme "Values Development in Estonian Society 2009-2013" (Ministry of Education and Research 2009) was prepared in Estonia. However, it was launched only in 2010, and the authors intended to ascertain the values of the heads of preschool child…
Descriptors: Values Education, Foreign Countries, Qualitative Research, Semi Structured Interviews
Leikin, Mark; Tovli, Esther – Creativity Research Journal, 2014
This study examined the possible effect of bilingualism on creativity in nonmathematical and mathematical problem solving among bilingual and monolingual preschoolers. Two groups of children (M age = 71.9 months, SD = 3.6) from the same monolingual kindergartens participated in this study: 15 Russian/Hebrew balanced bilinguals and 16 native…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Creativity, Kindergarten, Preschool Children
Schwartz, Mila; Wee Koh, Poh; Xi Chen, Becky; Sinke, Mark; Geva, Esther – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2016
Educators and researchers increasingly recognise the impact of language policies on bilingual education. The present study examined the similarities and differences in how the teachers and principals in two different contexts, a Mandarin-English bilingual programme in a Canadian kindergarten and elementary school and a Russian-Hebrew bilingual…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Teacher Attitudes, Mandarin Chinese, Semitic Languages
Moin, Victor; Breitkopf, Anna; Schwartz, Mila – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2011
The article focuses on bilingual kindergartens in Germany and Israel offering education in both host (German or Hebrew) and immigrant (Russian) languages. The main questions are how teachers of bilingual kindergartens understand and explain the organizational and pedagogical principles of the kindergartens and how they negotiate home and host…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Policy, Educational Principles
Schwartz, Mila; Moin, Victor; Leikin, Mark – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2011
The study focused on immigrant parents' discourses about strategies for their children's preschool bilingual development and education. The article investigated how immigrant parents described and explained these strategies. The study was based on semi-structured interviews with 4 families. The 8 parents were Russian-speaking immigrants to Israel…
Descriptors: Interviews, Monolingualism, Foreign Countries, Immigrants
Moin, Victor; Schwartz, Mila; Breitkopf, Anna – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2011
This study analyses Russian-speaking immigrant parents' beliefs and attitudes toward the education of their children in German and Israeli bilingual kindergartens. Why did the parents chose bilingual education? Which convergences and divergences exist in parents' beliefs, expectations and attitudes toward bilingual kindergartens in Germany and…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Speech Communication, Teaching Models, Parent Attitudes
Schwartz, Mila; Mor-Sommerfeld, Aura; Leikin, Mark – Language Awareness, 2010
This article examines how majority-language teachers coping with additive education view their roles in a bilingual framework, how they perceive issues of culture and language in young bilingual children, and how they understand the term "bilingual education" in an L2 non-additive context. The study has been conducted in the context of…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Bilingual Education, Foreign Countries, Kindergarten
Schwartz, Mila; Moin, Victor; Leikin, Mark; Breitkopf, Anna – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2010
This study investigated how immigrant parents describe and explain their family language policy concerning their child's preschool bilingual development, and also explored the factors linked to the parents' choice of bilingual or monolingual kindergarten for their child. The study design was based on a comparison of 2 groups of parents: those who…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Ideology, Monolingualism, Foreign Countries
Gullickson, Janice – Learning Languages, 2009
Six years ago Project Starship MIR, the Russian language "shuttle," launched at Turnagain Elementary, one of the Anchorage School District's 65 elementary schools. The MIR "peace" mission originated with encouragement from the local business community to prepare students for Alaska's future economic, social and political ties…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Business, Second Languages, Foreign Countries
Mehisto, Peeter; Asser, Hiie – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2007
In 2000, Estonia launched a voluntary Estonian language CLIL programme for seven year-olds in four Russian-medium schools. The programme has expanded rapidly to a total of 48 kindergartens and schools. This paper reports on research into stakeholder perspectives on programme management. In addition to surveying parents, teachers, vice-principals…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Russian
