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Mother Tongue Instruction: Between Assimilation and Multicultural Incorporation
Education Sciences, 2022 For many students with migrant backgrounds and newly arrived students, their mother tongue is not only a knowledge and a school grade issue, but also a reflection of their identity and a sense of belonging, which are shaped by political structures.
Didem Oral, Anna Lund
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Is mother tongue instruction culturally empowering?
EducareIn this paper, I formulate a position on the dissemination of ‘cultural empowerment’ in schools through a critical discussion of its relation to my research field, mother tongue instruction (MTI) in Sweden.
Scarlett Mannish
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Mother tongue instruction in Sweden and Denmark [PDF]
Language Policy, 2018 This article investigates mother tongue instruction (MTI) in Sweden and Denmark in a historical, comparative perspective, with a view to accounting for key differences in language policy enacted in educational fields. Whereas in Sweden, MTI is offered to linguistic minority children irrespective of their linguistic and ethnic backgrounds, in Denmark ...
Martha Karrebæk +2 more
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Mother-tongue instruction: imperatives in overall academic performance [PDF]
EUREKA: Social and HumanitiesThere has been some cumulative attention within the educational environment about the use of mother-tongue instruction, raising alarm bells within the society of scholars who had generated interest in investigating and understanding the impact on overall academic performance.
Bulelwa Makena, Zimasa Nzabe
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Turkish Mother Tongue Instruction in Sweden
Dilbilim Dergisi / The Journal of Linguistics, 2022 Home language education has a long tradition in Sweden and includes the teaching of Turkish to children who grow up bilingually with Swedish as their societal language and Turkish as their home and heritage language. The present paper characterises Turkish mother tongue instruction (MTI) and discusses its current status in the light of Swedish language
U. Bohnacker
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Language Policy, 2023 This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the motivations that key policy documents have put forward as justifications for Sweden’s mother-tongue instruction in immigrant and historical minority languages as a multicultural policy that has endured ...
Memet Aktürk-Drake
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Curriculum Perspectives, 2023 This paper focuses on the dynamics of decolonising the curriculum by adopting mother tongue language as a medium for instruction in South African universities.
Phefumula Nyaningwe Nyoni
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Challenges of the Sudden Switch from Mother Tongue Instruction to English as a Medium of Instruction
International Journal of English Linguistics, 2021 The present study explored the challenges encountered through the transition from using the mother tongue as a medium of instruction at schools to using English as a medium of instruction at universities. Two focus groups were conducted with Saudi undergraduates and faculty members from different Saudi universities.
Shahinaz Abdullah Bukhari
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Impromptu vocabulary work in English mother tongue instruction [PDF]
Classroom Discourse, 2018 This paper examines how unplanned vocabulary work arises out of students’ talk. Furthermore, we show how the teacher and students jointly contribute towards the ensuing teaching trajectories, where ...
Kirsten Stoewer, Nigel Musk
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South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2021 Background: Over the years, the majority of the Basotho nation and many countries have known Lesotho as a country which has Sesotho and English as the only spoken languages and as medium of instruction in schools.
Arone C. Koloti, Thuthukile Jita
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