Multilingual Education
2191-5059
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Globalization, localization and language attitudes: the case of “foreign workers” in Singapore
Tập 3 Số 1 - 2013
Dialogic meaning construction and emergent reading domains among four young English language learners in second-language reading
Tập 1 Số 1 - 2011
The quality of Second-Language Writing (Hebrew) among Arab students in Israel
Tập 6 - Trang 1-16 - 2016
The paper deals with the level of syntactic complexity of subordinate clauses in
argument texts spontaneously produced in hebrew by Arab female freshmen
specializing in the teaching of Hebrew at Academic College of Education in
Israel. Syntactic complexity is examined by means of the relationships between
main clauses and various types of subordinate clauses; by categorizing types of
logical conne...
Multilingualism, language policy and creative writing in Kenya
Tập 4 - Trang 1-9 - 2014
Language use and creative writing go hand in hand. In the process of exploring
language, we also engage in the study of literature. An engagement with
literature is, indeed, a continuing process of improving our capacity to use
language and refining our sensibility to good language use. In Kenya, there are
clearly discernible patterns of creative writing which may be linked to language
policies. I...
‘Language is only a tool’: Japanese expatriates working in China and implications for language teaching
Tập 3 - Trang 1-20 - 2013
Drawing on a qualitative case study, this article questions two prevailing
assumptions: that English is a universal lingua franca and that English
proficiency is indispensable for transcultural work. The study involved Japanese
manufacturing companies with subsidiaries in China and investigated the language
use of Japanese expatriates and Chinese office workers as well as the views of
participants...
Addressing the challenges of language choice in the implementation of mother-tongue based bilingual education in South Sudan
Tập 4 - Trang 1-10 - 2014
Since the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in 2005, the
Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (South Sudan) has been working
towards the implementation of a Language and Education Policy in which the
mother tongue of the learner is to be used as a medium of instruction for the
first three years of primary education. However, with over 63 Southern Sudanese
indigenous commu...
Systematic use of mother tongue as learning/teaching resources in target language instruction
Tập 2 - Trang 1-15 - 2012
This paper reports the results of a study which explored systematic use of L1
for the benefit of L2 development. Students of a comparative linguistic course
in a teacher education program were asked to design a series of tasks for
Chinese learners of English in local schools. Three different ways of using L1
were discerned from their design and rationale: 1) taking advantage of
similarities betwee...
Spelling improvement through letter-sound and whole-word training in two multilingual Greek- and English- speaking children
Tập 4 - Trang 1-23 - 2014
Case studies of two children with spelling difficulty are reported. LK was
multilingual and ED bilingual. A training programme that targeted phonic
decoding (or sublexical) spelling processes was conducted with both children.
Immediate and delayed post-training assessments showed improvement in spelling
nonwords for LK but not for ED. Training that targeted whole word (or lexical)
spelling process...