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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Camilleri Grima, Antoinette – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2013
This article offers a review of some of the major issues of bilingualism in education in Malta. It starts by contextualising the current situation in a historical perspective. From the macro-perspective it then moves to a micro-perspective to illustrate how, in practice, Maltese and English are used as a bilingual medium of instruction across…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Foreign Countries, Educational History, English
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Camilleri Grima, Antoinette; Buttigieg, Linda; Xerri, Jessica – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2013
Linguistic evidence shows that the dialects of Maltese present on the islands of Malta and Gozo are distinct from Standard Maltese (SM) on all linguistic levels. This article describes the dialectal reality in Gozo and inside Gozitan classrooms on the basis of data collected through classroom observation and interviews. The emphasis on the use of…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Foreign Countries, Standard Spoken Usage, Observation
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Gauci, Hertian; Camilleri Grima, Antoinette – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2013
This article addresses the issue of teacher codeswitching in the teaching of Italian in Malta. The analysis of teacher codeswitching shows that the learners' first language (L1), Maltese, is used as a pedagogical tool to enhance language learning. Teachers frequently resort to Maltese to provide more learner-friendly explanations of…
Descriptors: Italian, Foreign Countries, Code Switching (Language), Interviews