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Khalid Laanani; Said Fathi – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2024
Today, the power of discourse is incontestable. Within the field of language policy and planning (LPP), language policy (LP) has been conceptualized in various ways. One paradigmshifting conceptualization is viewing LP as "discourse." The discursive power of language policies is quite real as it can be contested in official state…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Policy, Second Language Instruction, Official Languages
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Hamza R'boul; Hassan Belhiah; Anissa Elhaffari – Language and Education, 2024
The mainstream colonial lenses that have been used to understand multilingualism in the peripheries may not account for the realities of Southern multilingualisms. This article takes up these epistemic challenges in navigating EMI through alternative lenses, aiming to complexify the discussion of EMI among young individuals who are engaged in…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Multilingualism, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Carol A. Ready – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2025
In my research I examine the linguistic practices of Moroccans in Spain, many of whom speak Moroccan Arabic as well as Modern Standard Arabic, Tamazight, French, English and Spanish at varying levels of proficiency. As part of my research, I conducted a 10-month linguistic ethnography. I was able to rely on my native English and near-native…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Arabic, Language Variation, Immigrants
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Hinostroza-Castillo, Ursula; Ianos, Maria-Adelina; Petreñas, Cristina; Lapresta-Rey, Cecilio – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2023
As a response to the migratory movements initiated at the end of the past century in Catalonia (Spain), its educational system aims to promote interculturality and multilingualism as a way to achieve social cohesion. For this purpose, it is important to improve our understanding of the linguistic acculturation preferences endorsed by local…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Acculturation, Social Integration, Cultural Pluralism
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Sílvia Perpiñán; Anna Cardinaletti – Second Language Research, 2024
This study attempts to explain a systematic phenomenon that has been described in interlanguage grammars crosslinguistically: Null-Prep, which consists of omitting the obligatory preposition in certain movement constructions. We propose that Null-Prep is not related to lack of knowledge of "wh"-movement, as previously assumed, but to…
Descriptors: Interlanguage, Grammar, Phrase Structure, Linguistic Theory
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Salah Ben Hammou; Abdelaziz Kesbi – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
The Moroccan Ministry of Education has recently implemented a multilingual programme, called 'language alternation' (LA). The programme aims at improving students' foreign language (FL) proficiency level and promoting plurilingualism by using French, English, and Spanish, for the teaching of math, physics and life and earth sciences at the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Boueddine, Myriam; Boulahna, Najat – Arab Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2022
The Speech therapy practice in Morocco faces many challenges related to the standardization of practice, quality training for the students, and accessibility for all citizens. This emerging profession has to deal with issues such as multilingualism (various Arabic dialects, Amazigh, French, English, and Spanish) and a lack of funds for research.…
Descriptors: Speech Therapy, Allied Health Personnel, Foreign Countries, Multilingualism
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Lapresta-Rey, Cecilio; Huguet-Canalís, Ángel; Janés-Carulla, Judit – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2018
There is a theoretical and empirical tradition demonstrating the influence of the place of birth and self-identification in the shaping of language attitudes. But very few works analyse their joint effects. The main aim of this study is to analyse both the disaggregated and joint impact of these variables on the shaping of attitudes towards…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Self Concept, Spanish
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Kostadinov Koroutchev, Rossen – European Journal of Educational Research, 2018
In the present paper we analyse the school performance of the Moroccan secondary students in the municipality of Collado Villalba (Northern Madrid region). For this aim we discuss several socio-economic parameters such as the evolution of unemployment, vegetative growth or immigration rate, etc., that are related to school performance and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Secondary School Students, Municipalities, Socioeconomic Influences
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Caglitutuncigil, Tulay – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2018
It is generally taken for granted that teaching the language of the region to newcomers will prevent social stratification and will enable them to participate in the society and economy. Nevertheless, there are significant drawbacks with regard to the coordination of these language classrooms. This article will problematise the fact that these…
Descriptors: Romance Languages, Social Integration, Qualitative Research, Foreign Countries
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Moustaoui Srhir, Adil – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2020
The main aim of this paper is to analyse the role of family micro-Language Policies (LP's) in the context of the Moroccan Diaspora in urban and semi-urban areas in Spain by examining and contrasting different cases of language transmission within transnational migrant families of Moroccan origin. The paper answers the following questions: How are…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Family Relationship, Language Usage, Immigrants
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Jaurena, Ines Gil – Intercultural Education, 2010
This paper examines educational practices in Spain and in particular Madrid. With this contextual frame as the starting point the following issues are discussed: the "official" conceptualization of cultural diversity, educational policies and resolutions related to cultural diversity, and school programs and resources facilitated by…
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Educational Practices, Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries
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Daniel, Mayra C.; Ball, Alexis – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2009
This article discusses the educational system of Morocco and the ways the country's multilingual history has influenced and continues to direct the choice of the languages used in schools. Suggestions that will eliminate cultural mismatch and thus facilitate interactions with Moroccan students and their families are included. The research focuses…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingualism, Bilingual Education, Language of Instruction
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Nunes, Miguel Baptista, Ed.; Isaias, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2019
These proceedings contain the papers and posters of the International Conference on e-Learning (EL) 2019, which was organised by the International Association for Development of the Information Society and co-organised by the Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, in Porto, Portugal, July 17-19, 2019. The EL 2019 conference aims to address the…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Mathematics Instruction, Cooperation
Taib, Saab Eddin – Federal Linguist, 1972
Address delivered at the Society of Federal Linguistics, Washington, D.C., April 29, 1972. (VM)
Descriptors: Arabic, Bilingualism, Culture Conflict, Developing Nations
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