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Tannenbaum, Michal; Michalovich, Amir; Shohamy, Elana – Modern Language Journal, 2020
Israel's Education Ministry invited proposals for the development of a new multilingual policy for the country's education system. We submitted a proposal for an 'engaged language policy' approach, which helps schools to conceptualize and develop a policy that best fits them ideologically and demographically. This study aimed to map teachers' and…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Arabs, Jews, Language Planning
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Van Der Meij, Hans; Zhao, Xiaoguang – Modern Language Journal, 2010
This study examines the views of teachers and students on the frequency of teacher codeswitching in English major courses in Chinese universities. An important distinction made in the inquiry is the difference between "believed" and "desired" presence in short or long moments of codeswitching. Lessons were recorded to assess…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Code Switching (Language)
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Ellwood, Constance – Modern Language Journal, 2008
The article discusses relationships between codeswitching and identities in classroom peer group talk among students from a variety of Asian and European backgrounds who were studying English in Australia. The article focusses on talk that, in being concealed from the teacher through codeswitching, allows expression of identities that are not…
Descriptors: Peer Groups, Foreign Countries, Code Switching (Language), English (Second Language)