Search results for "bilingual education."
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Faces in the looking glass: EFL and CLIL-students as English speakers
2008
Tämän laadullisen proseminaari-tutkielman tarkoituksena oli tutkia ja vertailla lukion kolmasluokkalaisten, englantia vieraana kielenä opiskelevien (EFL) sekä vieraskielistä opetusta (CLIL) saavien opiskelijoiden, kokemuksia ja näkemyksiä itsestään englannin kielen puhujina. Tutkimukseen osallistui kaksi EFL-opiskelijaa ja kaksi CLIL-opiskelijaa, joita kutakin haastateltiin avoimien, opiskelijoiden käsityksiä kartoittavien kysymysten avulla. Haastattelut toteutettiin suomen kielellä ja nauhoitettiin analyysia varten. Analyysi- ja käsittelyosuudessa tarkasteltiin vastauksissa esille nousseita teemoja, joita olivat yleiskäsitys omasta suullisesta englannin kielen taidosta, kyky ilmaista itseä…
EDUCATIONAL IMPLICATIONS OF CONTACT BETWEEN CULTURES
2010
Monográfico con el título: 'Perspectiva educativa y cultural de 'juego de rol'. Resumen basado en el de la publicación La presencia de alumnado extranjero constituye un hecho evidente en los centros escolares en España y se debe tener en cuenta al planificar cualquier intervención educativa. Ante esta situación, hay que replantearse la estructuración y organización escolar de cara a dar respuestas adecuadas a la diversidad cultural y lingüística. A partir de una investigación llevada a cabo sobre la educación bilingüe en California, se plantean algunas reflexiones que conviene tener en consideración a la hora de trabajar en contextos escolares de diversidad cultural y lingüística. Recurrien…
Reforming the national core curriculum for bilingual education in Finland
2016
This article explores the discourses surrounding the act of writing Section 10 Bilingual education in the new Finnish national core curriculum, which will be implemented in 2016. This section will set the parameters for programs that integrate language and content learning, where a minimum of two languages are used for instruction in content subjects. The main research questions discussed in this article are how and why certain discourses are expressed, or left unexpressed, in the final draft version of the curriculum. The data for qualitative analysis consists of participatory observations and minutes of meetings in the working group assembled for writing the draft.
“You Can Stand Under My Umbrella”: Immersion, CLIL and Bilingual Education. A Response to Cenoz, Genesee & Gorter (2013)
2014
Classrooms the world over are full of people who, for different reasons, are learning additional languages and/or are studying through languages that are not their first. Gaining insight into such contexts is complicated for researchers and practitioners alike by the myriad of contextual variables that come with different implementations and make comparison and generalization a tricky business. We welcome Cenoz et al.’s (2013) article as an important contribution to the debate on how best to tackle this problem. In this Forum piece we would like to, however, redress the balance on two issues: the fact that terminologies have histories and the emphases on the research agenda suggested for fu…
A language socialisation perspective on Swedish immersion in Finland : Students, teachers, and parents as key actors
2022
Abstract This retrospective review applies a language socialisation perspective in examining the findings of a four-year research project on Swedish immersion in Finland. Findings from nine sub-studies within the project are reported with a point-of-view from three key actors’ (teachers, students, and parents) language socialisation processes. Results show that a special feature of immersion teacher socialisation is its continuous attention toward the additive multilingual nature of immersion education, which requires sustained attention to multilingual language use and development. Students in Swedish immersion are socialised into the use of multiple languages in school and act as socialis…
The environment of a bilingual classroom as an interactional resource
2018
Both schoolscape studies and recent conversation analytic (CA) research on classroom interaction have demonstrated that material artefacts such as images, texts and different kinds of objects found in classrooms have a significant role in educational practice. This article turns the spotlight on social action within a bilingual classroom, exploring how participants visibly orient to the surrounding material environment during instructional interaction. The data consist of video-recorded lessons from secondary-level education. A multimodal conversation analytic investigation focuses on interactions during which participants attend to classroom texts and semiotic objects in ways that foregrou…
Two languages in the air : a cross-cultural comparison of preschool teachers’ reflections on their flexible bilingual practices
2016
Bilingual preschool education is under researched compared with bilingual school education. There is also a lack of research on bilingual preschool teachers’ agency and how they negotiate between two languages in the classroom. We examined the language practices of five bilingual preschool teachers working within three different socio-linguistic settings, in Finland (Finnish–Swedish and Russian–Finnish contexts) and Israel (an Arabic–Hebrew context) and interviewed the teachers about their use of languages in the classroom. We found that in each context the teachers reported modifications to an initial bilingual education model over time: from a strict separation of languages, to flexible b…
Thinking and Content Learning of Mathematics and Science as Cognitional Development in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL): Teaching Thro…
2005
This paper presents a study on thinking and learning processes of mathematics and science in teaching through a foreign language, in Finland. The entity of thinking and content learning processes is, in this study, considered as cognitional development. Teaching through a foreign language is here called Content and Language Integrated Learning or CLIL. CLIL refers to all those diverse programmes, including some forms of immersion and bilingual education, where a foreign language is a medium of instruction, affecting the entire learning process of the learner. Thinking and content learning in CLIL manifests itself as analogical CLIL reasoning systems, based on two languages, and is assumed t…
Skolotāju pedagoģiskās darbības salīdzinoša analīze latviešu un mazākumtautību sākumskolu klasēs: sociālā pedagoģija
2006
English-bilingual biology for standard classes development, implementation and evaluation of an English-bilingual teaching unit in standard German hi…
2019
English connects all areas of science around the world. Productive and receptive English-language skills are thus a crucial tool that schools must provide their students with in order to prepare th...