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Kuchah Kuchah; Laela Adamson; Aline Dorimana; Aloysie Uwizeyemariya; Alphonse Uworwabayeho; Lizzi O. Milligan – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This paper develops the notion of epistemic exclusion as a way of exploring the different types of silence and silencing that happen in English medium Rwandan classrooms. By focusing on classroom observations of teachers' pedagogic practices and the ways in which girls interact in the classrooms, we demonstrate how experiences of epistemic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction, English, Teaching Methods
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Mowlaei Aghblagh, Mahdi; Alempour Rajabi, Saba – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
This study examines identity construction and conflict in the case of a woman whose parents replaced the local language with the official language at the home in the city of Tabriz in northwestern Iran, where the local language, Azerbaijani, is overshadowed by Persian as the official language of the state. In such contexts, Shifting away from the…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Language Usage, Ethnography, Socialization
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Stell, Gerald – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
This study sheds light on the socio-economic factors determining the (re)location of sociolinguistic prestige in postcolonial environments. It uses the case of Namibia, an ethnolinguistically diverse African country that replaced Afrikaans -- an established lingua franca -- with English as its official language to weaken the hold of the formerly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Official Languages, Language Attitudes, Socioeconomic Influences
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Adamuti-Trache, Maria; Anisef, Paul; Sweet, Robert – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2018
Immigrant women to Canada face unique challenges in gaining mastery of English or French, the country's two official languages. The study focuses on differences "among women" with respect to pre-migration and post-migration characteristics that position them differently with respect to language learning in the social contexts where they…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Learning Strategies, Immigrants, Longitudinal Studies
Canestrari, Alan S., Ed.; Marlowe, Bruce A., Ed. – John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2018
"The Wiley International Handbook of Educational Foundations" features international scholars uniquely qualified to examine issues specific to their regions of the world. The Handbook provides readers with an alternative to the traditional texts in the foundations of education by taking aim at the status quo, and by offering frameworks…
Descriptors: Foundations of Education, Educational Change, Teaching (Occupation), Curriculum
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Heugh, Kathleen – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2011
Discourses of development, education, gender, feminism and critical linguistics arrive in Africa from usually well-meaning but often opportunistic agents from other contemporary socio-political and economic contexts. Each of these forms a new layer that veils the earlier discourses and practices. Simultaneously, people in Africa are…
Descriptors: Official Languages, Language Planning, Feminism, Females
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Norton, Bonny; Jones, Shelley; Ahimbisibwe, Daniel – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2011
While the HIV/AIDS epidemic has wrought havoc in the lives of millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa, access to information about the causes, symptoms, and treatment of the disease remains a challenge for many, and particularly for young people. This article reports on an action research study undertaken in a rural Ugandan village in 2006.…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Action Research, Official Languages, Access to Information
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Vaish, Viniti – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2008
This paper qualitatively documents and analyses the attitudes and identities of female students from the urban disadvantaged social class towards English and Hindi in the city of New Delhi. These attitudes include not only instrumental views of English but also the impression that it creates a new personality for an individual. English is part of…
Descriptors: Social Class, Language Attitudes, Official Languages, Ideology
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Iqbal, Isabeau – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2005
This qualitative study explores how francophone mothers describe barriers to and supports for maintaining their mother tongue. It focuses on the experiences of women who have the primary responsibility for teaching French to their pre-school-aged children. The findings, based on data collected in semi-structured interviews with women residing in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Official Languages, Mothers, Language Skill Attrition
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Tannenbaum, Michal; Abugov, Netta; Ravid, Dorit – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2006
This paper reports on a study conducted with children belonging to a rarely studied minority group, the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Israel, an extremely religious group that endorses patterns of voluntary segregation. The research population also demonstrates linguistic segregation, as they use only Yiddish for daily communication with…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, German, Religious Cultural Groups, Females
Chen, Fred, Ed.; And Others – Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, 1992
Papers in this volume include the following: "Addressing Contextual Issues Relevant to Language Teaching in South Africa": Implications for Policy and Practice" (J. Keith Chick); "A Comparative Study of Compliment Responses: Korean Females in Korean Interactions and in English Interactions" (Chung-hye Han); "Can You…
Descriptors: Clergy, Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)