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Haibo Shen; Michael Singh – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The monolingual English norm in current education and academic discourse has continuously marginalised the linguistic and theoretical resources in languages other than English. Drawing upon evidence from Chinese bilingual postgraduate researchers and their supervisors, this paper reconsiders their potentials for bilingual theorising with their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingual Students, Graduate Students, Researchers
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Jennifer Alford – English in Education, 2023
This paper reports on an instrumental case study exploring what migrant and refugee-background youth in Australia make of the critical media literacy they learn in school, and what critical media practices they use out of school. It addresses the perennial question of the relationship between school literacy learning and everyday literate lives,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Media Literacy, Diversity, Youth
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Cox, Robyn – English in Australia, 2015
The first paper in this collection refers to recent theorising about Globalisation and the resultant outcomes for educational contexts specifically in relation to English language learning in Australia. Much has been written about the importance of the global economy, its influence on education and mounting commentary that the English language is…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Global Approach, Foreign Countries, Sociolinguistics
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Fielding, Ruth – Babel, 2011
For young bilingual students a feeling of connection to their background languages and cultures forms one important aspect of their developing identities. This paper addresses some of the findings from a larger study examining students' understandings of their identities as bilingual. The study involved students who are part of a bilingual program…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Foreign Countries, French, Bilingualism
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Lewis, Ramon; And Others – Australian Journal of Education, 1982
A study investigating secondary students' receptiveness to bilingual education in Melbourne, Australia examined general student perceptions of (1) bilingual and monolingual students' attitudes and (2) bilingual students' own perceptions of their parents' and teachers' attitudes. Strong bilingual student support was found despite their own…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Educational Attitudes, Foreign Countries
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Oliver, Rhonda; Purdie, Nola – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1998
Examined bilingual Australian elementary students' attitudes toward their first and second languages, noting attitudes they attributed to significant others in various contexts and investigating the impact of demographic and educational factors. Interviews indicated that children held significantly different attitudes toward first and second…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Bilingual Students, Demography, Elementary Education