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Download full textMelissa van der Elst-Koeiman; Eliane Segers; Ronald Severing; Ludo Verhoeven – Journal of Multilingual Education Research, 2025
This study examined how Papiamento and Dutch attitude and home literacy environment of 168 children in fourth grade of the post-colonial Dutch Caribbean, predicted L1 and L2 reading literacy in sixth grade. Overall, children had higher scores for reading literacy in L1 Papiamento as compared with L2 Dutch. They showed more positive attitudes…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Indo European Languages, Literacy, Native Language
Direct linkRajendram, Shakina – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
Translanguaging offers a new perspective on language learning by affirming and leveraging the diverse language practices that make up learners' unitary language repertoire as resources for their learning. Despite the potential pedagogical benefits of translanguaging, English-only policies are still prevalent in many language classrooms. Even when…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Language of Instruction
Kiramba, Lydiah Kananu – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2019
This paper uses sociocultural theories of language learning to investigate how teachers and students navigate between monolingual institutional policies and the multilingual realities encountered in a rural Kenyan fourth-grade classroom. The paper addresses not only how learners' communicative repertoires are deployed to make meaning in a…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Elementary School Students, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning
Boyd, Maureen; Kong, Yiren – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2017
Reasoning words are linguistic features associated with classroom exploratory talk as students talk-to-learn, explore ideas, and probe each other's thinking. This study extends established research on use of reasoning words to a fourth- to fifth-grade literature-based English language learning context. We examined frequency and patterning of…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Grade 4, Grade 5, Elementary School Students
Fernández, Manual; Wegerif, Rupert; Mercer, Neil; Rojas-Drummond, Sylvia – Journal of Classroom Interaction, 2015
The linked concepts of "scaffolding" and the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) were originally applied to the context of asymmetrical teaching and learning with a teacher or adult explicitly supporting a learner, usually a child, to achieve tasks beyond their ability when working alone. In this paper we investigate how these concepts…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Comparative Analysis, Intervention
Maganda, Dainess – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2016
Drawing from a sociocultural perspective of literacy, with the goal to promote the use of African Native Languages (ANL) in schools, I conducted a Participatory Action Research in one multilingual primary school community in North West Tanzania. For three weeks, 19 teachers, 19 parents and 119 6th grade students collaborated with each other in a…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Action Research, Participatory Research, African Languages
