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Eliane Lorenz; Tugba Elif Toprak-Yildiz; Peter Siemund – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2025
A multilingual experience can be considered a significant asset. However, since the earliest studies in the field, research has reported mixed results regarding potential advantages such as increased cognitive ability and metalinguistic awareness. Moreover, studies investigating the influence of bilingualism/multilingualism on the acquisition of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Multilingualism, Bilingualism
Peter Siemund; Eliane Lorenz; Tugba Elif Toprak-Yildiz – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
Since the earliest studies on multilingual advantages, it has proved difficult to disentangle language development from general cognition. It remains unclear whether language interdependence is an independent variable or whether observable effects are mediated by cognitive ability. Measurable effects of one language on another typically go hand in…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Proficiency, Bilingualism, Foreign Countries
Usanova, Irina; Schnoor, Birger – Bilingual Research Journal, 2021
This study investigated students' multilingual writing skills in three different languages: the majority language (German), heritage languages (Russian or Turkish), and a foreign language (English). The aim was to empirically explore the Focus on Multilingualism Approach, tracing different profiles of the multiliteracies that exist in multilingual…
Descriptors: Multiple Literacies, Multilingualism, Writing Skills, Foreign Countries
Usanova, Irina; Schnoor, Birger – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 2022
In linguistically diverse contexts, language repertoires include various literacy skills in multiple languages across different modes of representation (multiliteracies), where multilingual writing can be conceptualized as a synthesized competence that includes all languages in a person's repertoire and is continuously evolving. We respond to the…
Descriptors: Multiple Literacies, Multilingualism, Writing Skills, Factor Analysis
Tobias Schroedler; Judith Purkarthofer; Katja F. Cantone – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This paper reports findings from an exploratory study on multilingual speakers conducted in Germany. Data were collected using a questionnaire instrument launched in 2021. To our knowledge, this is the first enquiry into multilinguals' own perception of their spoken languages in Germany. The core research questions addressed in this paper are (1)…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Multilingualism, Language Attitudes
Gabriel, Christoph; Klinger, Thorsten; Usanova, Irina – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2021
We investigate the interrelations between pronunciation and writing skills in French as a foreign language produced by two groups of bilingual learners (German-Russian; German-Turkish) and a monolingually raised German control group (each n = 10). As an indicator of the learners' pronunciation skills, we refer to a perceptually relevant acoustic…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Spelling, Pronunciation, Correlation
Schnoor, Birger; Usanova, Irina – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2023
Writing, as a highly complex strategic literacy skill alongside reading, is an essential prerequisite for learning and determines a student's educational success. In diverse contexts, a student's linguistic repertoire may involve multiple languages, which may serve as mutual resources in his or her multilingual writing skill development. Drawing…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Academic Achievement, Writing Skills, Skill Development
Schnoor, Birger; Hartig, Johannes; Klinger, Thorsten; Naumann, Alexander; Usanova, Irina – Language Testing, 2023
Research on assessing English as a foreign language (EFL) development has been growing recently. However, empirical evidence from longitudinal analyses based on substantial samples is still needed. In such settings, tests for measuring language development must meet high standards of test quality such as validity, reliability, and objectivity, as…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Longitudinal Studies
Willard, Jessica A.; Kohl, Katharina; Bihler, Lilly-Marlen; Agache, Alexandru; Leyendecker, Birgit – Early Education and Development, 2021
Research Findings: Are family literacy activities linked to gains in preschool-aged dual language learners' (DLLs') societal language vocabulary? To understand connections between literacy activities and vocabulary, we separately considered literacy activities in the respective heritage language and in the societal language, German, and accounted…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Family Environment, Native Language, Turkish
Lorenz, Eliane; Hasai, Yevheniia; Siemund, Peter – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2021
Foreign language learners frequently use words from their previously acquired language(s) in the target language, especially if these languages are related (Ringbom, Håkan. 2001. Lexical transfer in L3 production. In Jasone Cenoz, Britta Hufeisen & Ulrike Jessner (eds.), "Cross-linguistic influence in third language acquisition:…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Transfer of Training, Psycholinguistics
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
Schröder, Konrad – Language Learning Journal, 2018
The paper gives an overview of FLT in the German-speaking regions of Europe from medieval times to the present day, within a framework of language politics, communicative needs and educational ideologies. The languages addressed are French, Italian, Spanish, English, Russian and Turkish. Basic social and professional data of the various groups of…
Descriptors: Modern Languages, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Educational History
Belenkova, Nataliya M.; Kruse, Irina I.; Vydra, Doris – Journal of Social Studies Education Research, 2018
The contemporary international situation is characterized by the humanitarian crisis and a great wave of refugees. The border crossing point of a host country separates the refugees` former life full of suffering and pain and the expectations of a new peaceful life. Here a language mediator is considered like a person who can show the refugee the…
Descriptors: Refugees, Civil Rights, Peace, Land Settlement
Gogolin, Ingrid – European Educational Research Journal, 2021
Public education systems in Europe were created in the course of the foundation of the 'classical' nation state in the 18th and 19th centuries. Historical analyses show that it was part of their destiny to contribute to the consolidation of the respective states' national self-design. In the 19th century, the myth developed that a nation state is…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Immigration, Monolingualism
Edele, Aileen; Stanat, Petra – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2016
Although the simple view of reading and other theories suggest that listening comprehension is an important determinant of reading comprehension, previous research on linguistic transfer has mainly focused on the role of first language (L1) decoding skills in second language (L2) reading. The present study tested the assumption that listening…
Descriptors: Native Language, Listening Comprehension, Second Language Learning, Turkish