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González-Calero, José Antonio; Berciano, Ainhoa; Arnau, David – Mathematical Thinking and Learning: An International Journal, 2020
The reversal error is a prevalent phenomenon that consists of reversing the relationship between two variables when writing equations from comparison in verbal language. A study with 169 Basque/Spanish bilingual pre-service teachers examined whether this error is mainly due to the students' tendency to employ a direct-translation strategy based on…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Language Processing, Language Role, Equations (Mathematics)
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Corcoll, Cristina – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2013
This article examines how learning an additional language can positively affect children's opinions and feelings about languages and how this process can be enriched when different languages--namely, the additional language and the children's L1s--are present and used in the classroom in an informed way. It is hypothesised that this will benefit…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning, Romance Languages