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Syntactic awareness matters: uncovering reading comprehension difficulties in Hong Kong Chinese-English bilingual children
This study examined whether syntactic awareness was related to reading comprehension difficulties in either first language (L1) Chinese or second...
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Levels of skills and predictive patterns of reading comprehension in bilingual children with an early age of acquisition
Bilingualism appears to be related to poor language and reading comprehension in the instructional language (L2). However, in the long term, an early...
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“We live in the age of choice”: school administrators, school choice policies, and the sha** of dual language bilingual education
In the past 20 years, both school choice policies and dual language bilingual education (DLBE) programs have proliferated across the US. This project...
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‘I Could Still Be Myself as a Warlpiri Person’: How Bilingual Education Achieves Community Development Aims
Three Warlpiri educators provide insightful reflections on their experiences in a bilingual education programme in a remote community in Australia,...
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Methodological Proposal for the Teaching, Learning and Evaluation of Syntax in Secondary School in Bilingual Contexts
The teaching of syntax is typically a complex and controversial issue in secondary school classrooms. Moreover, in schools in bilingual areas, the...
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Orthographic knowledge: a predictor or an outcome of word reading and spelling in bilingual children?
Orthographic knowledge is predicted to be central in the process of children’s reading development. We examined both the temporal order between...
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How do Hong Kong bilingual children with Chinese dyslexia perceive dyslexia and academic learning? An interview study of metaphor analysis
While extensive quantitative research has shed light on the cognitive mechanisms of dyslexia, few mixed-methods studies have been conducted to...
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Tertiary Bilingual Education: The Iberian Spanish Case Versus Other Multilingual Contexts
One of the main goals of this book, and especially of section one, is to discuss the importance of English in mediating knowledge in tertiary...
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Transformative Mentoring in a Pre-school Bilingual Context in Turkey
Mentoring bilingual teachers is receiving increasing attention worldwide. In the context of a private Turkish pre-school, this chapter focuses on...
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Has language as resource been the basis for mother-tongue instruction in Sweden? On the evolution of policy orientations towards a uniquely enduring bilingual policy
This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the motivations that key policy documents have put forward as justifications for Sweden’s...
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Establishing a Conversational Corpus of Bilingual Speakers Living with DAT and the Ethno-Social Approach
This chapter details the research methods and ethical considerations before, during, and after data gathering and gives a description of the data...
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Multilingual Education and Teaching
In this chapter, we discuss the contexts in which the offer of multilingual education is enabled, encouraged, or prevented. We start with defining...
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Multilingual Teaching of English Language in Higher Education in Bangladesh: A Critical Perspective
Drawing on Teng's model of agency (in Autonomy, agency, and identity in teaching and learning English as a foreign language, Springer, Teng,...
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A raciolinguistic perspective on career readiness standards in career and technical education: Professionalism and communication skills as white linguistic practices
In this paper, we draw on raciolinguistic ideologies and chronotopes to critique career readiness, a race-evasive educational policy discourse that...
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Heritage Language Education and Ethnolinguistic Vitality: Community Initiatives to Support Greek Learners in Canada
Heritage Language Education (HLE) is a distinct field of bilingual education that focuses on minority languages. In Canada, despite a strong...