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Peer reviewedEdwards, Viv; Walker, Sue – Language and Education, 1994
Responds to Grace Feuerverger's article on literacy intervention. The authors argue that uncritical use of multilingual resources is unlikely to result in significant improvement in students' literacy. They outline problems inherent in the use of multilingual materials and reasons for international cooperation in this area. (14 references)…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Instructional Materials
Peer reviewedBourne, Jill – Language and Education, 2001
Argues that to understand why bilingual support operates as it does in classrooms in the United Kingdom, it has to be seen in the context of the parameters it is allowed by institutionally constructed discourses and classroom routines of mainstream teachers' practice. Suggests that to design effective forms of bilingual support, there is a need to…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Direct linkWiese, Ann-Marie – Language and Education, 2004
This study unpacks the inherent tension that arises when any school adopts a particular model for reform--how to mesh a model with the reality of daily life in the classroom. In the field of bilingual education, programme models abound, and the literature reflects a great diversity among them, as well as efforts to evaluate their relative…
Descriptors: Student Placement, Educational Change, Ethnography, Bilingual Education
Probyn, Margie – Language and Education, 2006
South Africa is a multilingual country with 11 official languages. However, English dominates as the language of access and power and although the Language-in-Education Policy (1997) recommends school language policies that will promote additive bilingualism and the use of learners' home languages as languages of learning and teaching, there has…
Descriptors: Science Education, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Educational Policy
Peer reviewedGfeller, Elisabeth; Robinson, Clinton – Language and Education, 1998
Addresses the question of mother-tongue education of children, especially in francophone countries of Africa. It seeks to contribute to the debate on the integration of local languages into educational systems in multilingual settings by stressing the opposing cultural messages carried by official and indigenous languages. (Author/JL)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Cultural Differences, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedBallenger, Cynthia – Language and Education, 1997
Explores a discussion in a bilingual education class of Haitian students where a non-teacher-directed discussion format and an emphasis on the students' own questions encourage the use of the students' everyday ways of talking and exploring ideas. The article's analysis of a discussion shows what and how the students are learning in this context.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Discourse Analysis, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
