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Nathalie Auger; Jérémi Sauvage; Emmanuelle Le Pichon-Vorstman; Carole Fleuret; Leanne Adegbonmire; Laurine Dalle – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2024
For many years, French and Canadian schools have welcomed students from around the world. This article presents the Binogi/ESCAPE project, which supports the integration of a multilingual digital resource in the classroom that presents STEM content through a multilingual lens with associated animated videos and quizzes. The study aims to encourage…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Teaching Methods, Teacher Attitudes, Cross Cultural Studies
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Bonacina-Pugh, Florence – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2020
This paper revisits the notion of 'legitimate language' [e.g. Bourdieu 1977. "The Economics of Linguistic Exchange." "Social Science Information" 16 (6): 645-668] as it relates to multilingualism in educational contexts. Since Heller [1996. "Legitimate Language in a Multilingual School." "Linguistics and…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Classroom Communication, Discourse Analysis, Language Usage
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Velasco, Patricia; Fialais, Valérie – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2018
This aim of this article is to contribute to the development of a socio-cultural model of emergent biliteracy that recognizes the dynamic interactions amongst two languages. The present field study took place in a French-German public Kindergarten class in Alsace, France, where students are in the initial process of learning to read in both…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Phonology, Code Switching (Language), Literacy
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Mary, Latisha; Young, Andrea S. – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2017
This article presents data from a longitudinal study undertaken in a pre-primary classroom of 3-4-year-old emergent bi/plurilingual children during their first year of formal schooling in France. It focuses on how the teacher's intercultural competence facilitated the emergent bilingual children's transition from home to school and fostered…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Bilingualism, Cultural Awareness