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Mouni, Ram Bahadur – Online Submission, 2023
This article aims to identify the ideologies of school-head teachers towards a mother tongue-based multilingual education (MTB-MLE) policy and analyse how these ideologies influence the implementation of MTB-MLE policy in schools in the context of Nepal. Adopting qualitative ethnographic research, two school-level policy arbiters (head teachers)…
Descriptors: Ideology, Educational Policy, Language Planning, Multilingualism
Tavarez Dacosta, Pedro; Reyes Arias, Fransheska – Online Submission, 2021
The present work is a historical/linguistic account of an unprecedented fact regarding the existence of two English Speaking Communities [British English and American English], in a country like the Dominican Republic, where Spanish is the official and most used language, to the extent of being considered a monolingual nation or country. It is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, North American English, English, World History
Tavarez DaCosta, Pedro; Ventura, Geovanny – Online Submission, 2018
The goal of this research is to determine the effectiveness of Grammar-Translation Method on EFL adult learners. The sample of this investigation was based on 30 graduated students as a universe and a sample of 15 which represent the 50% in which 9 of them were female who represent the 60% and 6 male who represent the 40% from Impact Languages…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Bayat, Seher – Online Submission, 2017
This study aims to compare the reading comprehension skills of the bilingual students studying at the 4th Grade of the Primary School with the monolingual students studying at the 4th Grade. With this purpose, 303 students were included from the Black Sea Region, where mainly monolingual students studied and 247 students were included from the…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Skills, Bilingual Students, Elementary School Students
DeMott-Quigley, Megan – Online Submission, 2018
This paper documents a year in the life of an ESOL adult literacy teacher. It is a work of narrative inquiry, an examination of reflective teaching in action. As such, it includes commentary on the cycle of observation, reflection, research, and action. In particular, this narrative examines the relationship between literacy practice and…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Education, English (Second Language), Language Teachers
Atar, Cihat – Online Submission, 2014
This study aims at testing if Turkish L2 users of English process predictive conditionals different than Turkish monolingual speakers in accordance with Multi-competence Theory (Cook, 2003). For data collection grammaticality judgment tasks (GJTs) are used and unlike traditional GJTs, contexts are added to clarify the tasks. The participants…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingualism, Monolingualism, English (Second Language)
Hamilton, Harley – Online Submission, 2012
This paper describes a study investigating the use of three types of dictionaries by deaf (i.e., with severe to profound hearing loss) high school students while reading to determine the effectiveness of each type for acquiring the meanings of unknown vocabulary in text. The dictionary types used include an online bilingual multimedia English-ASL…
Descriptors: High School Students, Deafness, Dictionaries, Vocabulary Development
Seadatee-Shamir, Abootaleb; Soleimanian, AliAkbar; Zahmatkesh, Zeinab; Mahdian, Hossein – Online Submission, 2011
The relationship among WMC (working memory capacity), reading performance and academic achievement is both logically and theoretically undisputable. However, what may not be as obvious is that such capacity and performance, and as a result, achievement, could be higher among ECBL (early childhood bilingual) students. To reaffirm the obvious and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Short Term Memory, Reading Achievement, Bilingualism
Mushi, Selina Lesiaki Prosper – Online Submission, 2012
This is a research report on children's use of multiple languages and the school curriculum. The study explored factors that trigger use of, and fluency in, multiple languages; and how fluency in multiple languages relates to thought processes and school performance. Advantages and disadvantages of using only one of the languages spoken were…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Processes, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries
Kersten, Kristin, Ed.; Rohde, Andreas, Ed.; Schelletter, Christina, Ed.; Steinlen, Anja K., Ed. – Online Submission, 2010
Drawing on data from eleven preschools in four European countries (Germany, Belgium, Sweden, and the UK), this edited volume explores the progress of preschool children learning English over a period of two years. In the first volume, children's lexical and grammatical comprehension, the quality of L2 input, the effect of immersion on L1…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingual Education, Preschool Education, English (Second Language)
Wallstrum, Kiara – Online Submission, 2009
The focus of this paper examines how dual language education (DLE) programs are valuable. The literature shows that children do much more than just thrive in a dual language environment. According to research, children who are bilingual are cognitively, academically, intellectually, socially and verbally more advantaged than their monolingual…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Monolingualism, Educational Experience, Misconceptions
Lin, Grace Hui Chin – Online Submission, 2008
In our second millennium, oral translation has become very significant due to the speedy globalization phenomenon. However, many elders in Taiwan might not effortlessly integrate into this global village because they did not obtain their opportunity of learning English in their childhood. Therefore, some of the bosses of industries or…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Monolingualism, Chinese, English
Kersten, Kristin, Ed.; Rohde, Andreas, Ed.; Schelletter, Christina, Ed.; Steinlen, Anja K., Ed. – Online Submission, 2010
Drawing on data from eleven preschools in four European countries (Germany, Belgium, Sweden, and the UK), this edited volume explores the progress of preschool children learning English over a period of two years. This edited volume (Volume II) gives details on best practices in bilingual preschools as well as background and training on topics…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingual Education, Preschool Education, English (Second Language)
Karmellou, Christalla – Online Submission, 2008
The paper discusses educational and language policy issues within the context of the Greek Cypriot education as prescribed by the constitutional provisions of the 1960s settlement. In view of the prospect of unification in Cyprus, the author examines the role of language educational policy in future peace building. Key issues regarding ethnic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Public Policy, Sociolinguistics
Granado, Elvalicia – Online Submission, 2007
The study investigated the ability of 10-month-old infants, from monolingual English speaking environments, to categorize comforting and approving infant-directed speech (IDS) utterances across languages. Infants participated in an infant-controlled habituation procedure, in which they heard up to 12 different exemplars, in 12 different languages,…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Infants, Monolingualism, Habituation
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