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Download full textSammons, Pamela; Davis, Susila; Bakkum, Linda; Hessel, Gianna – CfBT Education Trust, 2014
During 2012/13, academics from the Department of Education, University of Oxford were commissioned by CfBT to conduct an independent evaluation of the CfBT Brunei English teaching programme. This report describes the main findings from a research project that studied the role of CfBT Education Trust in supporting improved English language teaching…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingual Education, Case Studies, Partnerships in Education
Saxena, Mukul – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2009
The socio-cultural settings of English-language and English-medium classrooms are intrinsically bi/multilingual and bi/multicultural as both learners and teachers bring their multiple identities and home-community languages and sociolinguistic practices into the classroom. However, more often than not in such contexts, monolingual ideologies are…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Conflict, Multilingualism, Ethnography
Peer reviewedMartin, Peter W. – Language and Education, 1999
Part of a larger study that focuses on the interactional practices in a number of primary classrooms in several different sociolinguistic areas of Brunei Darussalam, this study looks at how teachers and learners in two classrooms accomplish lessons through the use of two languages--Malay and English--in order to unpack the meaning of the written…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Classroom Communication, Code Switching (Language), Elementary Education
Peer reviewedLiew, Elizabeth M.; Saravanan, Vanithamani – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1996
Focuses on the importance of developing the native language (L1), i.e., "Bahasa Melayu," as a firm foundation for the learning of a second language (L2) in Brunei and analyzes problems facing learners of "Bahasa Melayu" and English in Brunei classrooms. Saravanan's response focuses on the structure of the Brunesian bilingual…
Descriptors: Chinese, Classroom Techniques, Code Switching (Language), Cultural Exchange
Peer reviewedMartin, Peter W.; Espiritu, Clemencia C – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1996
Examines how the teacher incorporates elements of both "Bahasa Melayu" and Brunei Malay into content lessons and views code switching in the primary classroom within the wider framework of community language norms and the linguistic pressures on students and teachers. Espiritu shares Martin's concern regarding the quantity and quality of…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Code Switching (Language), Context Effect, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedBeardsmore, Hugo Baetens; McLellan, James – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1996
Analyzes classroom practice in Brunei and suggests alternative teaching strategies to enable teachers to more easily manipulate the classroom culture to achieve the objectives of the bilingual education system while maintaining class control. McLellan argues that in a multilingual situation, the lines between languages are fuzzy so extent that…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Case Studies, Classroom Techniques, Code Switching (Language)
