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Developing sociolinguistic awareness through Japanese virtual linguistic landscapes in Sakubun classroom International Journal of Multilingualism (IF 2.26) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Lisda Nurjaleka, Rina Supriatnaningsih, Yuyun Rosliyah, Muthi Afifah, Tommi Yuniawan
Sociolinguistic awareness is crucial for L2 learners because language is not just a set of grammatical rules and vocabulary; it is deeply intertwined with social and cultural context. The linguisti...
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Navigating linguistic diversity toward ELF-informed pedagogy: Filipino teachers’ perceptions of their accent International Journal of Multilingualism (IF 2.26) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Mark Bedoya Ulla, Ethel Jovy Wacas, Wendy Eustaquio, Geraldine S. Wakat
Teachers’ accents have become important in World Englishes (WE) and English as a lingua franca (ELF) studies. However, limited studies investigate how English teachers view their accents and how su...
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Distributed liderazgo: the making of spaces and leadership structures for a multilingual school ecology International Journal of Multilingualism (IF 2.26) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Alissa Blair
This qualitative study conducted at a Midwestern U.S. elementary school with a ‘strand’ bilingual programme examines the ways that administrators, teachers, and parents create learning environments...
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Authorised voices: literacy practices of language revitalisation through education International Journal of Multilingualism (IF 2.26) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Csanád Bodó, Noémi Fazakas
Current research on language revitalisation through education has highlighted the impact of the standard language ideology on minoritised language practices. This ideology is intertwined with emerg...
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Metalinguistic awareness in the multilingual EFL classroom: a study of grade 5–7 students in Norway International Journal of Multilingualism (IF 2.26) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Dianna Walla
This article compares metalinguistic awareness among emerging bilingual and multilingual learners of English in Norwegian primary school. Participants were 120 students in grades 5–7 (aged 10–13) a...
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Unveiling gender differences: a semantic differential approach to studying mindsets in language learning International Journal of Multilingualism (IF 2.26) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Antonina Rafikova, Anatoly Voronin
Studying language learning beliefs plays an important role in language learning research. The aim of our study was to reconstruct the system of meanings that underlie the gender differences in the ...
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Student exchange in primary and secondary education and its effect on language gains, intercultural competence and language learning motivation: a systematic review of research in the European context International Journal of Multilingualism (IF 2.26) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Sybille Heinzmann, Catherine Ferris, Thomas Roderer, Kristina Ehrsam
While internationally there is long-standing research activity on the effectiveness of language contacts (especially in the form of mobility stays) at tertiary level and a number of literature synt...
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Linguodidactic aspects of intercultural communication in the multilingual space of Kazakhstan International Journal of Multilingualism (IF 2.26) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Zhanna K. Makhanova, Natalya V. Dmitryuk, Gulbanu B. Makhanova
The importance of addressing the linguodidactic problems of intercultural communication in the multilingual educational space of the Republic of Kazakhstan lies in the fact that by 2021, the Progra...
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Strategies employed in learning English and other foreign languages: a case study of Indonesian polyglots International Journal of Multilingualism (IF 2.26) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Noprival Noprival, Alfian Alfian, Iswandany Kaslan, Dion Ginanto
Despite the existence of many studies on language learning strategies (LLS), little scholarly work reports the LLS used by multilingual foreign language learners. To fill this empirical gap, the pr...
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Resilience through language? A case study of three minority communities in Georgia International Journal of Multilingualism (IF 2.26) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Diana Forker, Natia Botkoveli
The concept of resilience has been employed as an analytical tool in a wide range of scientific disciplines and fields from the natural sciences to social sciences and humanities, but within lingui...
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A bibliometric analysis of research trends in multilingualism in English medium instruction: towards translanguaging turn International Journal of Multilingualism (IF 2.26) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Danya Zhu, Ping Wang
This study aims to provide a bibliometric analysis of the status of multilingualism in EMI research, research topics on multilingualism in EMI and future research directions. Based on a sample of 1...
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Analysing the factor structure of the plurilingual and pluricultural competence scale: dimensionality, reliability, and validity of the adapted Russian version International Journal of Multilingualism (IF 2.26) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Sofya S. Belova, Anatoliy V. Kharkhurin
This study aimed to adapt the Plurilingual and Pluricultural Competence scale (PPC) to the Russian-speaking population and to assess its psychometric properties. Five hundred and sixty-four undergr...
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‘I came to the Basque Country, and now I have to learn their language’. Migrant students’ attitudes towards the use of a minority language International Journal of Multilingualism (IF 2.26) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Gorka Roman Etxebarrieta, Naiara Berasategi Sancho, Idoia Legorburu Fernandez, Nahia Idoiaga Mondragon
This study analyzes the attitudes of migrant children towards the Basque language within the context of varying linguistic models and the dichotomy between public and private educational institutio...
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Supporting multilingual children with language impairment in a multilingual environment: experience and perspectives from speech and language therapists in Switzerland International Journal of Multilingualism (IF 2.26) Pub Date : 2024-03-09 Emily Stanford, Maren Eikerling, Olivia Hadjadj, Hélène Delage
This work reports the results of a survey study conducted with French-, German-, and Italian-speaking speech and language therapists (SLTs) in Switzerland. In this survey we asked respondents about...
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Are yes-or-no questions really unhelpful? A reflection from the perspective of decolonizing methodology in researching multilingualism International Journal of Multilingualism (IF 2.26) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Sixuan Wang, Yongyan Zheng
Drawing on the perspective of decolonizing methodology, this paper problematises the conventional interview technique of avoiding yes-or-no questions introduced by handbooks of research methods in ...
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Reconceptualising multilingualism on African radio: a multilingual accommodation theory International Journal of Multilingualism (IF 2.26) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Limukani Mathe, Gilbert Motsaathebe
Media organisations in radio broadcasting are gradually fine-tuning to accommodate multilingual socio-cultural identities. Africa presents unique challenges of lingual diversity which some of the m...
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Multilingual interventions in feedback: communication strategy in teacher professional development training International Journal of Multilingualism (IF 2.26) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Rida Afrilyasanti, Yazid Basthomi
In Indonesia, most recent studies about teacher professional development have commonly focused on the programme’s employment, effectiveness, problems, and the skills teachers gained due to the prog...
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Language, migration and multilingualism in the age of digital humanities International Journal of Multilingualism (IF 2.26) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Yule Peng, Ziman Liu, Shifa Chen
Published in International Journal of Multilingualism (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The impact of multilingualism and proficiency on L2 vocabulary knowledge: contrasting high and low multilinguals International Journal of Multilingualism (IF 2.26) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Marjana Šifrar Kalan, Javier Muñoz-Basols, Pablo Robles-García, Tripp Strawbridge, Claudia Sánchez-Gutiérrez
This study investigates the effects of multilingualism and the degree of proficiency in different languages on vocabulary knowledge among Spanish language learners. Participants completed a 160-wor...
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Building participatory video projects for multilingual schoolscapes International Journal of Multilingualism (IF 2.26) Pub Date : 2024-02-11 Tamás Péter Szabó, Petteri Laihonen
Educational actions that establish connections between language, culture, and power construct ideologies of languages and their speakers. The study of linguistic landscapes in education (i.e. schoo...
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EFL learners’ short-term and long-term memory: does learning additional languages matter? International Journal of Multilingualism (IF 2.26) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Rana Zeynali Hamied, Sima Modirkhamene
Learning a language is one typical and common cognitive phenomenon among human beings. What matters even most, is the additional language learning and advantages it may confer; an issue which canno...
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Perspectives and practices on using Swahili to teach and learn English in Tanzania’s secondary schools International Journal of Multilingualism (IF 2.26) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Jafari Abdala
This study explored perspectives on using Swahili in English language classes and describe how teachers utilise this language in English language classes. It was a qualitative approach. Data were c...
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Analysing persuasion strategies in online advertising for third-hand cars in Tanzania: translanguaging in the virtual linguistic landscape International Journal of Multilingualism (IF 2.26) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Gerald Eliniongoze Kimambo
The main argument of this paper is that the Virtual Linguistic Landscape (VLL) of advertising allows the utilisation of persuasion strategies that transcend the traditional separation of named lang...
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Asturian cider in Madrid? Linguistic identity and the multilingual signage of Asturian restaurants in Madrid, Spain International Journal of Multilingualism (IF 2.26) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Alba Arias Álvarez
Migrant communities settle and appropriate spaces in their new home through deterritorialisation and reterritorialisation processes, which involve the reconceptualisation of the language and symbol...
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Trilingual families’ language strategies: potential predictors and effect on trilingual exposure International Journal of Multilingualism (IF 2.26) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Erin Quirk, Natasha Hadeed, Krista Byers-Heinlein
Family language strategies are approaches that parents adopt for language use with their multilingual children. In bilingual contexts, these strategies influence children’s language exposure and de...
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Young learners’ academic self-concepts for L2/L3 French and English International Journal of Multilingualism (IF 2.26) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Isabelle Udry, Raphael Berthele
Academic self-concept (ASC) is a student’s self-perceived level of ability in an academic domain and a major factor involved in academic performance. We examined the importance of internal/external...
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Achieving representativity in opportunity sampling: the ‘Bradford effect’ in the multilingual families Covid-19 survey International Journal of Multilingualism (IF 2.26) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Megan L. Wood, Lydia Gunning, Cecile De Cat
Typically, families from ethnic minority backgrounds and socioeconomic disadvantage are underrepresented in research. Using secondary data from a survey of the language practices of multilingual fa...
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Learning additional language(s) in collegiate multilingual education programmes: how learners perceive and utilise institutional affordance International Journal of Multilingualism (IF 2.26) Pub Date : 2023-11-19 Yuanyuan Liu, Chenxin Wang, Hui Jin
Previous studies of affordance have not explored in detail how a special type of affordance – institutional affordance – worked in multilingualism. By drawing empirical voices of students, this stu...
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Language policies and practices in early childhood education: perspectives across European migration societies. Introduction to the special issue International Journal of Multilingualism (IF 2.26) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Verena Platzgummer, Nadja Thoma
This paper will introduce the subject of language policies and practices in early childhood education across European migration societies and formulate theoretical and methodological questions. It ...
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The mosaic of language and identity: territorial identification, linguistic attitudes, and proficiency in young immigrants of Catalonia International Journal of Multilingualism (IF 2.26) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Fernando Senar, Judit Janés, Àngel Huguet, Josep Ubalde
This study investigates the relationship between identification with the local territory, language attitudes and language proficiency in young immigrants in Catalonia, a region in Spain. The aims o...
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Forbidding and valuing home languages – divergent practices and policies in a German nursery school International Journal of Multilingualism (IF 2.26) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Evamaria Zettl
This study analyses practices regarding home languages in a nursery school from a multilingual district in Germany, and the language policies and discourses that become visible in these. First, the...
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Commentary on the special issue “Language policies and practices in early childhood education: perspectives across European Migration Societies”. Agency in language policies and practices: a response to multilingual early childhood education and care International Journal of Multilingualism (IF 2.26) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Edina Krompák
This commentary discusses the theoretical and methodological issues highlighted by the special issue ‘Language Policies and Practices in Early Childhood Education: Perspectives across European Migr...
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The longitudinal development of language attitudes towards Spanish and Catalan during the transition from primary to secondary school International Journal of Multilingualism (IF 2.26) Pub Date : 2023-10-17 Llorenç Comajoan-Colomé, Cristina Illamola, Montserrat Sendra, F. Xavier Vila i Moreno
This study investigates the longitudinal development of language attitudes towards Catalan and Spanish over a five-year period in the transition from primary to secondary education of a sample of s...
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Navigating the potentials and barriers to EMI in the post-Soviet region: insights from Kazakhstani university students and instructors International Journal of Multilingualism (IF 2.26) Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Mir Afzal Tajik, Gulnara Namyssova, Duishon Shamatov, Syed Abdul Manan, Gulnissa Zhunussova, Seth Kwadwo Antwi
Kazakhstan has made remarkable strides forward in internationalisation of its higher education by adopting a trilingual education policy, joining the Bologna Process, cooperation with foreign unive...
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Morphological diversity and linguistic cognition International Journal of Multilingualism (IF 2.26) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Yule Peng, Shifa Chen, Yue Lang
Published in International Journal of Multilingualism (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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A systematic review of research on translanguaging in EMI and CLIL classrooms International Journal of Multilingualism (IF 2.26) Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Chaoqun Lu, Michelle Mingyue Gu, John Chi-Kin Lee
The past decade witnesses a surge of empirical research on translanguaging in educational contexts of English medium instruction (EMI) and content and language integrated learning (CLIL). This syst...
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Comparative analysis of morphosyntactic rule learning among monolingual, bilingual, and trilingual speakers: a study on Spanish preterite forms International Journal of Multilingualism (IF 2.26) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Roha M. Kaipa, Sarah Wendelbo
The research on language acquisition and retention has primarily focused on monolinguals and bilinguals, with comparatively few studies including trilinguals. To address this gap, the current study...
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Celebrating local heritage while marginalizing local language: the multilingual linguistic landscapes of Seongsu-dong in Seoul International Journal of Multilingualism (IF 2.26) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Tae-Sik Kim, Jong-Soo Ahn
This study analyses the multilingual linguistic landscapes made up of languages, visual materials, and built environments in Seongsu-dong, where old industrial sites and new commercial places are i...
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Linguistic landscape in a rural Basque area: a case study in Ondarroa International Journal of Multilingualism (IF 2.26) Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Gorka Basterretxea Santiso
ABSTRACT Basque is one of the official languages spoken in the Basque Country and although it is usually considered the minoritised language, its situation might be different in rural areas. The presence of Basque and Spanish has been previously reported in urban areas [Cenoz, J., & Gorter, D. (2006). Linguistic landscape and minority languages. International Journal of Multilingualism, 3(1), 67–80
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‘It’s a bit contradictory’: teachers’ stances to (practiced) language policies in German-language ECEC in Italy International Journal of Multilingualism (IF 2.26) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Nadja Thoma, Verena Platzgummer
Linguistic minority spaces tend to have a long history of language-ideological struggles that are often fought on the terrain of education, which is further complexified in the light of more recent...
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More cues or more languages? word segmentation using statistical learning in multilinguals, bilinguals, and monolinguals International Journal of Multilingualism (IF 2.26) Pub Date : 2023-08-16 Yasmine Tachakourt, Outhmane Rassili
ABSTRACT This study aims to extend statistical learning (SL) research to multilinguals and provide an insight into what could facilitate word segmentation. We studied how the number of cues available in the input as well as the number of languages spoken influence SL and word segmentation. We used two SL tasks: one involving the tracking of transitional probabilities (TPs) between syllables of words
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Effects of plurilingualism and pluriculturalism on creativity: testing the mediating role of tolerance and intolerance of ambiguity International Journal of Multilingualism (IF 2.26) Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Anatoliy V. Kharkhurin, Valeriya Koncha, Morteza Charkhabi
ABSTRACT This study continued a project aiming at empirically investigating the Plurilingual Creativity paradigm. It looked at the mediating role of tolerance and intolerance of ambiguity in the relation between plurilingualism/pluriculturalism and creativity. To test the research hypotheses, we recruited 261 participants using a simple random sampling technique. Participants were invited to respond
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The language learning strategies of multilinguals: the influence of age of acquisition in early bilingualism International Journal of Multilingualism (IF 2.26) Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Sara Saez-Fajardo
ABSTRACT This project studies how Spanish-Catalan early bilinguals use language learning strategies (LLS) differently depending on their order of language acquisition when they are learning French as an L4. Considering that the use of LLS has been pointed out as a sign of successful language learning, the study inquires whether being a simultaneous bilingual constitutes an advantage over being a sequential
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Book Review: The Politics of Researching Multilingually International Journal of Multilingualism (IF 2.26) Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Lanyu Wen, Fan Fang
Published in International Journal of Multilingualism (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Dynamic multilingualism of refugee families meets monolingual language policy in German ECE institutions International Journal of Multilingualism (IF 2.26) Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Julie A. Panagiotopoulou, Yasemin Uçan
Studies on Family Language Policy state that the shape of family multilingualism is embedded in diverse conditions within and outside the family, like historical, social and political factors, whic...
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Evaluating linguistic comprehensibility of Persian healthcare translations in multilingual contexts: a case study of health translations website from the Victorian Government of Australia International Journal of Multilingualism (IF 2.26) Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Marziyeh Khalilizadeh Ganjalikhani, Akbar Hesabi, Saeed Ketabi
ABSTRACT Health translation has gotten considerable attention recently because language diversity in multilingual societies often leads to language barriers. The present study evaluates the linguistic comprehensibility of translations in the “Health Translations Website” from the Victorian Government of Australia using the patient-oriented and culturally-appropriate health translation model (POCA)
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How frequency and intensity of exposure to a foreign language boosts its emotional resonance International Journal of Multilingualism (IF 2.26) Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Jean-Marc Dewaele, Yasser Alsuhaibani, Sultan Altalhab, Wejdan Alghamdi
ABSTRACT This cross-sectional study seeks to compare levels of emotional resonance in Arabic and English and identify the effects of sociobiographical factors, the history of English language learning and the current use of English on the development of emotional resonance of English among 141 bi- and multilingual Arab pupils and students in Saudi Arabia. Arabic was found to have a significantly stronger
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Multilingual children living in multilingual families: investigating factors impacting children’s happiness International Journal of Multilingualism (IF 2.26) Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Graziela N. M. Dekeyser, Calvin G. Swicegood, Orhan Agirdag
ABSTRACT Due to successive immigration waves, many European countries are experiencing a rise in ethnic minoritized families. In this study, we investigate how risks and resources associated with multilingualism at the individual and the family level shape minoritized children’s reported happiness and whether these effects are independent of children’s ethnic and national identification and perceived
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Trilingual children’s narratives: a longitudinal study of lexical development International Journal of Multilingualism (IF 2.26) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Elisabeth Reiser-Bello Zago, Raphael Berthele
ABSTRACT This paper focuses on vocabulary development in oral language productions of three elementary school-age sibling pairs growing up in a trilingual setting. This longitudinal study describes the development of the children's narrative competence over three years. The corpus analysed consists of retellings of animated films. The contribution deals with the lexical development in the three languages
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Multilingualism and language endangerment flame via COVID-19-crisis communication International Journal of Multilingualism (IF 2.26) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Mustapha Bala Tsakuwa, Xu Wen, Abdulkadir Adamu
ABSTRACT Drawing from health-crisis communication literature and anchoring the study on what we have coined as Dressler-Schmidt’s endangered language model, we aim to explore the extent to which COVID-19 pandemic has become a language endangerment window for users of English as a second language (ESL) in Nigeria. To achieve this, data was collected from respondents via online questionnaires and follow-up
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Are bilingual teachers more liberal than monolingual teachers? Differences between the language attitudes of Hungarian teachers in multilingual and monolingual environment International Journal of Multilingualism (IF 2.26) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 István Jánk
ABSTRACT Teachers’ language attitudes play a key role in their decision-making, evaluation, and behaviour in the classroom. This is as true in a monolingual environment as it is in a bilingual or multilingual linguistic situation, but it is fair to assume that the two different linguistic environments are associated with the dominance of different attitudes and ideologies. Among the related research
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Developing language awareness activities in the context of plurilingual education: two didactic models for language teaching practice International Journal of Multilingualism (IF 2.26) Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Natascha Drachmann
ABSTRACT Within educational research, there has been an increased interest in recent years to develop learners’ language awareness (LA) in the context of plurilingual education. Recommendations and intentions are given pointing to the benefits, but there are few concrete tools for how it can be carried out in practice. The article seeks to contribute to this field by presenting two theoretically and
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Teaching and learning third languages International Journal of Multilingualism (IF 2.26) Pub Date : 2023-07-03 Muhammet Yaşar Yüzlü
Published in International Journal of Multilingualism (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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The impact of heritage language proficiency on English as an additional language: disentangling language and cognition International Journal of Multilingualism (IF 2.26) Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Peter Siemund, Eliane Lorenz, Tugba Elif Toprak-Yildiz
ABSTRACT Since the earliest studies on multilingual advantages, it has proved difficult to disentangle language development from general cognition. It remains unclear whether language interdependence is an independent variable or whether observable effects are mediated by cognitive ability. Measurable effects of one language on another typically go hand in hand with differences in cognitive ability
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Code-switching input for machine translation: a case study of Vietnamese–English data International Journal of Multilingualism (IF 2.26) Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Li Nguyen, Oliver Mayeux, Zheng Yuan
ABSTRACT Multilingualism presents both a challenge and an opportunity for Natural Language Processing, with code-switching representing a particularly interesting problem for computational models trained on monolingual datasets. In this paper, we explore how code-switched data affects the task of Machine Translation, a task which only recently has started to tackle the challenge of multilingual data
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The use of Basque as a language for scientific dissemination: scholars’ practices and beliefs International Journal of Multilingualism (IF 2.26) Pub Date : 2023-06-25 Garbiñe Bereziartua, Maria del Mar Boillos, Nahia Idoiaga
ABSTRACT English has become the main lingua franca for scientific dissemination. Its hegemony contrasts with the scarce presence of minority languages such as Basque in academic publications. Its presence, in addition to having a short trajectory, has not yet been studied. This paper aims to identify the reasons for publishing or not publishing in the Basque language. We carried out a study of the
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Children’s agency in interactions: how children use language(s) and contribute to the language ecology in Swiss bilingual German-English daycare centres International Journal of Multilingualism (IF 2.26) Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Alex Knoll, Anna Becker
Although Switzerland is a plurilingual country, most early education and care (ECEC) institutions are monolingual. Yet, new institutions have recently established English as a second language of in...
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Intellectual humility and language attitudes: the case of Hebrew speakers’ views towards Arabic and multilingualism International Journal of Multilingualism (IF 2.26) Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Sharona Moskowitz, Jean–Marc Dewaele
ABSTRACT Intellectual humility (IH) remains a relatively novel concept, though past research indicates a relationship to open-mindedness, lower propensity towards political bias and amenability to engage with opposing viewpoints. Intellectual humility has shown mixed effects on foreign language learning (Moskowitz & Dewaele [2020]. The role of intellectual humility in foreign language enjoyment and
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The case of a pedagogical translanguaging intervention in a trilingual primary school: the students’ voice International Journal of Multilingualism (IF 2.26) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Oihana Leonet, Eider Saragueta
ABSTRACT Although translanguaging has become a central issue in the multilingual education literature, research on pedagogical translanguaging practices remains underdeveloped. This article describes a study of 72 primary school students (age = 10.68) who participated in an intervention based on translanguaging pedagogies. During the intervention, the boundaries between Basque, Spanish, and English
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Tense and aspect in the interlanguage of Slavic speakers learning Romance languages International Journal of Multilingualism (IF 2.26) Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Zuzana Toth, Tomáš Hlava, Beatriz Gómez-Pablos
ABSTRACT The study addresses the research gap of how being a speaker of a Slavic language influences the ability to convey tempo-aspectual meanings in Romance languages by examining personal and impersonal narratives delivered in written and spoken mode by learners of L3 Spanish and L3 Italian with L1 Slovak and L2 English. Narratives are analysed following the methods of interlanguage analysis proposed