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Harju-Autti, Raisa; Mäkinen, Marita; Rättyä, Kaisu – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
This article explores the language learning experiences of four recently arrived adolescent plurilingual immigrant students who participated in additional structured linguistic support (SLS) in lower secondary education. The SLS was targeted at creating scaffolding for students who were learning both the language of schooling and the…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Student Attitudes, Finno Ugric Languages, Second Language Learning
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Yuen Yi Lo; Daniel Fung; Xuyan Qiu – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
As the content knowledge of English language learners and immigrant students is assessed in their less proficient language, the validity and fairness of assessments related to those students have been widely discussed. However, such assessment issues have not received much attention in rapidly expanding bilingual education programmes, where…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries, Student Evaluation
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Alvarez, Laura; De Loney, Marguerite; Capitelli, Sarah; Valdés, Guadalupe; Julia Biernacki, Paulina – Language and Education, 2023
In teaching newcomer students, educators must envision how to provide opportunities for language use and development through age-appropriate content instruction. This article describes a design research study, in which we developed and piloted 5th grade science units and studied the participation of two newcomer students in sense-making…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Language Usage, Grade 5, Elementary School Students