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Yan Zhu; Bo Peng; Dingfang Shu; Jonathan Newton – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2025
This paper reports on the implementation of a 6-month collaborative teacher education project (CTEP) in China, designed to help teachers adopt CLIL in response to new primary school curriculum requirements. A multi-site case study was conducted to track two focal teachers' changes in CLIL implementation and its sustainability. Adopting ecological…
Descriptors: Content and Language Integrated Learning, Elementary School Teachers, Curriculum Implementation, Elementary School Curriculum
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Lisa M. Domke; Laura A. May; Melody Kung; Lauren Coleman; Michael Vo; Gary E. Bingham – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Having a dual focus on teaching content information and language is important in language-learning contexts and is a defining feature of dual language bilingual education (DLBE). However, systematically teaching both language and content is challenging for DLBE teachers. This exploratory mixed methods study of nine Spanish-English bilingual Latinx…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Teacher Education Programs, Spanish, English (Second Language)
Nerea Villabona; Mikel Gartziarena – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2025
This paper analyzes how future educators would design their ideal school in the context of the Basque Country, with particular attention put on language planning and language teaching aspects. More specifically, we focus on the ideas about the languages to be included in the curriculum, the modes of inclusion of students' home languages and the…
Descriptors: Second Languages, Language of Instruction, Preservice Teachers, Immersion Programs
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Delicado-Puerto, Gemma; Alonso-Díaz, Laura; Fielden Burns, Laura V. – TESL-EJ, 2022
How to better prepare future bilingual teachers for foreign language learning classrooms and their challenges is a key consideration in education, a concern echoed across the world as such programmes, where curricular content is taught in a foreign language, grow in popularity. This article presents student profiles and satisfaction for the first…
Descriptors: Bilingual Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Student Attitudes, Preservice Teachers
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Kydyrbayeva, Gulnaz; Stambekova, Assel; Svetlana, Urazgaliyeva; Gulsim, Nurekeshova; Gulvira, Matzhanova – World Journal on Educational Technology: Current Issues, 2021
The purpose of this research is to evaluate the readiness of future primary school teachers for trilingual teaching with CLIL technology. Qualitative research method was used in the study. A semi-structured interview form prepared by the researchers was used to collect the data. 160 teacher candidates studying at various universities in Kazakhstan…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Multilingualism, Teacher Education Programs, Teaching Methods
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van der Walt, Christa – ELT Journal, 2022
In South Africa, English is used as a language of learning and teaching for most students from Grade 4 onwards. National policies have requirements for all teachers regarding language proficiency in English, and they also require all teachers from Grades R (pre-school) to 6 to be English language teachers. Because most teachers are not English…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Language Teachers
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Song, SunYung – TESL-EJ, 2022
Although the number of emergent bilinguals (EBs), also known as English language learners (ELLs) in U.S. K-12 schools is growing at an increasing rate, K-12 mainstream teachers remain predominantly white and monolingual and receive little training for working with such learners. In addition, many states mandate "English-only" policies…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Elementary School Students