Examines literacy practices in a Corsican bilingual classroom--where both Corsican and French are used--and focuses on the way that pedagogical practices attribute authentic and powerful identities to both the minority language and to learners. (Author/VWL)

Examines the construction of two bilingual English as an additional language teachers' positionings during a 2-day student staged protest against a perceived racist incident in a London secondary school. Examines how these bilingual teachers' ethnicity and language resources in Turkish and English are employed by the school to reproduce a…

Addresses the following question: How are young bilingual informants positioned and how do they position themselves and others through discursive strategies within structures of languages, gender, and schooling. Draws on two theoretical approaches to understand the nature of language and power relations in a specific historical location in a…

Reports on an ethnographic research project in Liverpool, England. Aimed to build an understanding of the communicative and symbolic roles of languages and literacies in the Liverpool Somali community, which forms part of the Somali diaspora within Britain. The role of literacy is of particular interest in the context of a vigorous oral tradition…

Reports on an ethnographic study carried out in primary classrooms in the North West of England. Focused on ways in which the roles of new bilingual classroom assistants were being defined through organizational practices and communicative routines of daily life in these classrooms. Reports bilingual teaching/learning events in which the bilingual…

Reports results of a series of modified matched-guise tests measuring the attitudes of school principals, pupils, and other judges in Sweden towards foreign-born teachers' language proficiency and suitability to teach in a Swedish school. Results indicate that all groups of judges are accurate in judgments regarding accentedness. Judgments of…

Provides an afterword to this special issue of the journal on multilingual classroom ideologies, which focuses on interrelationships, interaction, and ideology. (Author/VWL)

Examines the relationships between the first (L1), second (L2), and third (L3) language in immersion programs for Russian-speaking students in Israel. Two parallel and similar immersion programs, which were carried out for the same population, but with different target languages (L2 Hebrew and L3 English), are described. Presents tentative…

Addresses the issue of code switching in the classroom and analyzes the roles and functions of the first language in the second language class. The observation of intra-sentential code switching shows complex learning ad communicative strategies and emphasizes the need to better understand these strategies and their role in the learning process.…

Examines the language attitudes of parents and secondary school students who are participating in programs where both official languages of Paraguay--Spanish and Guarani--are taught. Studies the relationship between linguistic attitudes and usage. (Author/VWL)

Discusses major conceptual and methodological issues surrounding language fossilization. Shows that fossilization is related to various manifestations of failure in second language learning. Argues that in constructing theories of second language acquisition, fossilization remains a central issue to be confronted and explained and suggests the…

This research review traces the current discussion on models of bilingualism to the contributions of Vygotsky and Luria. Proposes that a modular approach to studying the different aspects of bilingual development promises to chart a course toward finding a broader common ground around research findings and interpretations that appear to be…

Explores the process of language recovery in an English-Spanish bilingual 6-year-old child. Documents the rapid process of recovery that took place and, based on these results, considers the value of maintaining "passive bilingualism" in children. Examines the strategy employed by the family to achieve this. (Author/VWL)

Examines the relationship between languages in long-term memory in bilingual English-Greek 6-, 8-, and 10-year-olds. Children heard stories consisting of two events, each in a different language, over 2 days and were asked to recall information from the stories on the third day. Results are discussed within a developmental framework of bilingual…

Examines how much heritage language material is available for language minority students in the libraries of a large elementary school district in Phoenix, Arizona. Determines whether there is any relationship between a school's instructional approach for its English language learners and the quantity of heritage language reading material offered.…