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Glocalization in CLIL: Analyzing the Training Needs of In-Service CLIL Teachers in Taiwan and Spain
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Inmaculada Pineda; Wenli Tsou; Fay Chen – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Glocalization is the local adaptation of global trends, and though it has been extensively studied in other fields, there has been a lower emphasis on it in pedagogy. Glocalization is especially relevant in education given that pedagogical approaches to language learning such as Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) and English as a…
Descriptors: Inservice Teacher Education, Bilingual Education, Content and Language Integrated Learning, Faculty Development
Moments of Metalinguistic Awareness in a Kindergarten Class: Translanguaging for Simultaneous Biliterate Development
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Velasco, Patricia; Fialais, Valérie – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2018
This aim of this article is to contribute to the development of a socio-cultural model of emergent biliteracy that recognizes the dynamic interactions amongst two languages. The present field study took place in a French-German public Kindergarten class in Alsace, France, where students are in the initial process of learning to read in both…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Phonology, Code Switching (Language), Literacy
Task-Based Learning and Content and Language Integrated Learning Materials Design: Process and Product
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Moore, Pat; Lorenzo, Francisco – Language Learning Journal, 2015
Content and language integrated learning (CLIL) represents an increasingly popular approach to bilingual education in Europe. In this article, we describe and discuss a project which, in response to teachers' pleas for materials, led to the production of a significant bank of task-based primary and secondary CLIL units for three L2s (English,…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Units of Study, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
A Literature-Based Approach on International Perspectives of Bilingual Education
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Ozfidan, Burhan; Burlbaw, Lynn M. – Journal of Educational Issues, 2017
This study examines the bilingual education in Spain and in Canada, and discusses their historical backgrounds, current bilingual education programs in use, and teacher proficiency within their bilingual education programs. The purpose of this study is to examine these two countries' bilingual education programs and find a way to implement a…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Bilingual Education Programs, Foreign Countries, Program Implementation
Codeswitching and Stance: Issues in Interpretation
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Jaffe, Alexandra – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2007
This article explores the long-standing problem of ascribing meaning to individual acts of codeswitching. Drawing on ethnographic data from bilingual classrooms in Corsica, I situate the analysis of codeswitching within the more general question of the interpretation of speaker stance, which is defined as speakers' positioning with regard to both…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Bilingual Education, Classroom Communication, Code Switching (Language)
Teaching in French in the Primary Schools of the Valle D'Aosta, Italy.
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Street, Jack D. – French Review, 1992
Recent activation of a 1940 Italian law allowing equal amounts of elementary school subject area instruction in French and Italian in the Valle D'Aosta (Italy) are described. The plan uses paired bilingual teachers who alternate both languages and grades during the school day. Extension of the program to higher grades is discussed. (six…
Descriptors: Bilingual Schools, Bilingual Teachers, Curriculum Design, Elementary Education