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Amanda K. Kibler; April S. Salerno; Elena Andrei – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2024
Several language dichotomies -- particularly the pervasive idea that "academic" language distinctly contrasts with "social" language -- have dominated teachers' thinking and discourse about language-related instructional practices in recent decades. Many researchers now question ramifications that binary thinking about language…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Native Language, Academic Language
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Bernstein, Katie A.; Anderson, Kate T.; Close, Kevin; Rodriguez Martinez, Sara – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2023
Teachers' language ideologies shape their classroom language policy-making, which in turn shapes students' opportunities to learn. Attention to language ideologies is therefore critical for teacher educators who seek to support pre- and in-service teachers in becoming pro-multilingual policymakers. This mixed methods, survey-based study explores…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Dobbs, Christina L.; Leider, Christine Montecillo; Tigert, Johanna – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2022
When considering access to broader learning opportunities beyond the core curriculum for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners (CLDLs), the world language classroom is rarely a space that offers such access, despite the fact that CLDLs should have as much access to the development of multilingualism through school curricula as dominant…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teacher Education Programs
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Smith, Patriann; Warrican, S. Joel; Alleyne, Melissa L. – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2020
Increasingly, teacher educators are required to prepare teachers for students in mainstream classrooms who are more culturally and linguistically diverse than ever before. Yet, calls for teacher educators to model enactments of curriculum and instruction concerning diversity expected of prospective teachers in U.S. K-12 classrooms have resulted in…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Teacher Education Programs, Student Diversity, Preservice Teachers
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Ferrada, Donatila; Del Pino, Miguel – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2020
The main objective of this research was to explore communication competence traits deemed as essential for initial teacher training of schoolteachers of language -- in both the Spanish and "Mapuzugun" -- by primary school teachers and university teachers who are familiar with linguistic diversity in the southern-central area of Chile in…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Spanish, Biculturalism, Preservice Teacher Education
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Newcomer, Sarah N.; Collier, Lizabeth C. – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2015
Sharing the findings from two qualitative case studies, analyzed together, this article examines various ways educators, both elementary teachers and teacher educators, exercise agency in their interpretation and implementation of Arizona's model of Structured English Immersion (SEI), a 4-hour English Language Development (ELD) block, which…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Qualitative Research