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Cross, Tracy L. – Gifted Child Today, 2023
Using examples of gifted students in specialized programs, the author discusses the phenomenon called "code switching." Code switching is the name given to the process of alternating between one linguistic code and another. The author learned early on that most gifted students feel different from their nongifted peers, mostly about being…
Descriptors: Gifted, Code Switching (Language), Adjustment (to Environment), Classroom Environment
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Paul J. Meighan – Modern Language Journal, 2025
Languages shape worldviews, inform teacher values and behaviors, and are not disconnected from local political, sociocultural, and ecological contexts. For Indigenous peoples, language, land, and culture are inseparable. In contrast, English carries a human-centered, colonial, imperialist, and assimilationist legacy that persists in language…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Multilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Colonialism
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Beatty, Lindsay; Acar, Serra; Cheatham, Gregory A. – Young Exceptional Children, 2021
Meeting the strengths and needs of young children and families from diverse linguistic backgrounds is increasingly critical within early childhood programs. Research suggests that implementing culturally and linguistically sustaining practices can result in positive outcomes for young children and their families. In this article, the authors…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Translation, Bilingualism, Language Usage
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Corcoll López, Cristina; González-Davies, Maria – ELT Journal, 2016
The English as a foreign language classroom is a plurilingual setting par excellence since it involves at least two languages. However, plurilingual practices such as code-switching and translation have been consistently discouraged in formal learning contexts, based on the belief that keeping languages compartmentalized helps learning, and…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Multilingualism, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques
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Dubiner, Deborah – TESOL Journal, 2019
Over the past several decades, applied linguistics and second language (L2) acquisition and teaching have been areas of prolific research and have undergone continual development. The purpose of this article is to identify essential themes in the field of applied linguistics, focusing more intensely on teaching and learning second languages in a…
Descriptors: Check Lists, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Lewis, Gwyn; Jones, Bryn; Baker, Colin – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2012
Following from Lewis, Jones, and Baker (this issue), this article analyses the relationship between the new concept of "translanguaging" particularly in the classroom context and more historic terms such as code-switching and translation, indicating differences in (socio)linguistic and ideological understandings as well as in classroom…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Translation, Bilingualism, Bilingual Education