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Rutgers, Dieuwerke; Evans, Michael – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2017
Metalinguistic skills are highlighted in the literature as providing bilinguals with an advantage in additional language (L3) learning. The extent to which this may apply to bilingual education and content-and-language-integrated-learning settings, however, is as yet little understood. This article reports on a study exploring and comparing the…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Second Language Learning, Indo European Languages, English (Second Language)
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Chen, Jen Jun; Yang, Shu Ching – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2016
This case study investigated the effectiveness of the United Beyond Our Diversity (UBOD) project for the development of language skills and intercultural communicative competence (including attitudes, knowledge, skills, and critical intercultural awareness) in Taiwanese seventh grade learners. The learners' attitudes and evaluations of UBOD were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Internet, Multicultural Education
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van Steensel, Roel; Oostdam, Ron; van Gelderen, Amos; van Schooten, Erik – Journal of Research in Reading, 2016
In this study, we analysed the relationships between word decoding, vocabulary knowledge, meta-cognitive knowledge and reading comprehension in low-achieving adolescents and examined whether the strength of these relationships differed between Grade 7 and 9 students and between monolingual and bilingual students. Tests were administered to 328…
Descriptors: Reading, Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Grade 7