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Palviainen, Åsa; Protassova, Ekaterina; Mård-Miettinen, Karita; Schwartz, Mila – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2016
Bilingual preschool education is under researched compared with bilingual school education. There is also a lack of research on bilingual preschool teachers' agency and how they negotiate between two languages in the classroom. We examined the language practices of five bilingual preschool teachers working within three different socio-linguistic…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Bilingualism, Teaching Methods, Classroom Techniques
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Orusbaev, Abdykadyr; Mustajoki, Arto; Protassova, Ekaterina – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2008
The study provides an overview of the sociolinguistic situation in Kyrgyzstan and the current role of Russian and Kyrgyz in the republic. We present initial results of a mass survey of language use that show that the efforts to introduce the Kyrgyz language on all levels of societal use had some effect. At the same time, Kyrgyzstan is a…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Official Languages, Multilingualism, Foreign Countries