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Kavita Fongsataporn; Ruedeerath Chusanachoti; Voravudhi Chirasombutti – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2024
Language reflects how people think and behave in their culture. To have successful conversations, both language use and cultural awareness should be taken into consideration. Undeniably, Japanese grammar is different from Thai making it even harder for Thai learners to have fluent and appropriate conversations in the Japanese language. In the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Japanese, Theater Arts, Oral Language
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Buser, Melanie; Melfi, Giuseppe – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
The "Filière Bilingue" (FiBi) is a Swiss public two-way immersion program integrating French-speaking, German-speaking and allophone learners (having neither French nor German as an L1) in each class. Located in the bilingual city of Biel/ Bienne, the "diglossic" situation represented by the use of Swiss German and standard…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, French, German, Immersion Programs
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Krenca, Klaudia; Cain, Kate; Marinova-Todd, Stefka; Chen, Xi – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2023
Purpose: This study investigated the extent to which comprehension monitoring in children's first and second language predicts reading comprehension. Method: Children's ability to detect inconsistencies in orally presented stories was measured by response to a judgment question about whether the story made sense and by the identification of the…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Progress Monitoring, French, Second Language Learning
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Faidra Faitaki; Victoria A. Murphy – Second Language Research, 2024
Languages differ in their realization of the subject argument: non-null-subject languages, like English, require subjects to be phonologically overt; rather, null-subject languages, like Greek, allow the subject to be overt or null. This cross-linguistic difference can lead to the transfer of grammatical properties across languages during…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Amy Smith; Melissa Derby – Kairaranga, 2023
This paper examines how kaiako (teachers) view professional learning and development training (PLD) in structured literacy (SL) in a Maori-medium immersion context. Through interviews with kaiako in a kura kaupapa Maori (Maori-medium educational setting) who teach students in Years 1-6, and images of the literacy environment to capture some of the…
Descriptors: Pacific Islanders, Faculty Development, Malayo Polynesian Languages, Language of Instruction
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Reuter, Kathryn – BU Journal of Graduate Studies in Education, 2022
French Immersion instruction has often focused on the development of oral language as the primary method of early literacy learning. Manitoba Education endorses this focus with its curricular emphasis on oral language acquisition before formal reading and writing instruction. This article examines the role of early years French immersion teachers…
Descriptors: French, Literacy Education, Immersion Programs, Grade 1
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Xu, Chang; Di Lonardo Burr, Sabrina; Skwarchuk, Sheri-Lynn; Douglas, Heather; Lafay, Anne; Osana, Helena P.; Simms, Victoria; Wylie, Judith; Maloney, Erin A.; LeFevre, Jo-Anne – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2022
Canadian students enrolled in either French-immersion or English-instruction programs were followed from Grades 2 to 3 (M[subscript age] = 7.8 years to 8.9 years; N = 244; 55% girls). In each grade, students completed two mathematical tasks that required oral language processing (i.e., word-problem solving and number transcoding from dictation)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immersion Programs, French, English
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Aldekoa, Ana; Manterola, Ibon; Idiazabal, Itziar – Language Learning Journal, 2020
This paper sets out to show how a trilingual teaching sequence delivered primarily in minority L2 Basque can foster not just development of oral presentation skills in Basque, but also in L1 Spanish and L3 English. We set out to show that such a trilingual teaching intervention, based on the principles of integrated teaching of languages and…
Descriptors: Languages, Spanish, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Burchell, Diana; Hipfner-Boucher, Kathleen; Selvachandran, Janani; Cleave, Patricia; Chen, Xi – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 2020
This study examined the oral language skills of grade-two anglophone children enrolled in French Immersion and English-stream programs. The study had two objectives: (1) to compare performance between the groups on measures of receptive vocabulary, narrative comprehension, and narrative production (i.e., structure and language) in English; and (2)…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Grade 2, Elementary School Students, French
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Kassim, Samar; Witkin, Neil; Stone, Adam – Research-publishing.net, 2019
The aim of this study was to discover what potential benefits of Virtual Reality (VR) use students perceived in comparison to smartphone use in an English-speaking activity. Two surveys were conducted over three interventions in order to ascertain these student perceptions. Ten students enrolled in an elective English class at a Japanese…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Goetz, Lily Anne; Holliday, William – NECTFL Review, 2017
This article presents a model for a short-term interdisciplinary study abroad program designed specifically to foster intercultural competence. It provides a description of a one-month interdisciplinary General Education Summer Abroad Program in Valencia, Spain, that attempts to sensitize students to cultural differences, to engage students to a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Awareness, Competence, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Almgren, Margareta; Manterola, Ibon – Education Inquiry, 2016
The aim of this paper is to analyse some aspects of development of Basque as a second language (L2) in children for whom Spanish is their first language (L1) who attended immersion school in Basque in a Spanish-speaking sociolinguistic context. Data consist of oral story retellings produced in a classroom setting where the same children…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Languages, Spanish
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Bérubé, Daniel; Marinova-Todd, Stefka H. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2014
The classroom demographics in French immersion (FI) programs across Canada are changing: There are a growing number of multilingual students who are learning English as a second language (L2) and French as a third language (L3). However, little is known about the development of French language proficiency and reading skills of multilingual…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Multiple Regression Analysis, Reading Comprehension, French
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Czerwionka, Lori; Cuza, Alejandro – Hispania, 2017
The current study examines English-speaking learners of Spanish and their pragmatic development of request forms during a six-week immersion program in Madrid, Spain. Elicited production and intuition data were analyzed, focusing on personal deictic orientation, directness evidenced by clause type, and the use of "por favor"…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Pragmatics
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van Wyk, Jacolynn; Mostert, Maria Louise – Cogent Education, 2016
This study investigated the effect of mother tongue instruction and gender on second language acquisition using a causal-comparative quantitative research design. The two distinguishing groups compared were (i) learners that were taught in their mother tongue (Afrikaans) and (ii) learners that were not taught in their mother tongue but in English,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction, Gender Differences, Second Language Learning
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