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Download full textGonzalez, Roseann Duenas, Ed. – 2001
This collection of essays addresses the complicated and divisive issues at the heart of the debate over language diversity and the English Only movement in United States public education. Blending social, political, and legal analyses of the ideologies of language with perspectives on the impact of the English Only movement on education and in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Bilingual Education, Cultural Pluralism, Educational Legislation
Phillipson, Robert, Ed. – 2000
This collection of papers brings together scholarship on language, education, and society from all parts of the world, situating issues of minorities and bilingual education in broader perspectives of human rights, power, and the ecology of language. Part 1, "Language: Its Diversity, its Study, and Our Understandings of It," includes…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Civil Liberties, Cultural Differences, Diversity (Student)
Macdonald, C. A. – 1990
The Threshold Project focuses on the language and learning difficulties that children in Southern African schools experience when they change from their mother tongue to English as a medium of instruction in their fifth year of schooling. This report discusses Threshold Project research relating to the nature of pupils' cognitive capacities and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Curriculum Development
Peer reviewedVerbist, R., Ed.; And Others – Scientia Paedagogica Experimentalis, 1978
This journal of educational research contains five papers written by international authors. The initial paper presents the evaluation of a French immersion program for students from the second through the fourth grade in Toronto. The aim of the second paper, written in French with an English summary, was to find the attitude dimensions of French…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Bilingual Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Diabetes
Macdonald, C. A. – 1990
The Threshold Project examined the nature of the language and learning difficulties that black Standard Three (Std 3, or grade 5) children in South Africa experience when they change from their mother tongue to English as a medium of instruction and learning, a policy known as "delayed immersion." This report focuses on the first major…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Black Youth, Curriculum Development, Educational Policy
Macdonald, C. A. – 1990
The Threshold Project, a 3-year project that followed a 1985 pilot study, examined the nature of the language and learning difficulties that black Standard Three (Std 3, or grade 5) children in South Africa experience when they change from their mother tongue of Sepedi to English as a medium of instruction and learning, a policy known as…
Descriptors: African Languages, Bilingual Education, Black Youth, Change Strategies
Popov, Nikolay, Ed.; Wolhuter, Charl, Ed.; Ermenc, Klara Skubic, Ed.; Hilton, Gillian, Ed; Ogunleye, James, Ed.; Chigisheva, Oksana, Ed. – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2014
This volume contains papers submitted to the 12th Annual International Conference of the Bulgarian Comparative Education Society (BCES), held in Sofia and Nessebar, Bulgaria, in June 2014, and papers submitted to the 2nd International Partner Conference, organized by the International Research Centre 'Scientific Cooperation,' Rostov-on-Don,…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Global Approach, Competence, Comparative Education
