The purpose of the report is:(1) to inform policy-makers of existing research and practices in
mother-tongue instruction in early childhood and early primary school years; and (2) to raise …

Following a review of current scholarship on identity and integration patterns of Russian
speakers in the Baltic states, this article proposes an analytical framework to help …

A survey of 724 families of dual language enrichment students in the South-west USA
explored what kinds of families had chosen dual language education for their children and …

The study examined differences in reading achievement and mastery skill development
among Grade‐6 students with different language background profiles, using cognitive …

In this study, language views and home language practice of sixteen immigrant parents
were documented and related to the dual language behaviors of their young children (ages …

This study builds on previous work to examine parent reasons for enrolling their children in a
two-way immersion (TWI) charter school. This work goes beyond ethno linguistic …

Political debates on the Baltics, and in particular Estonia, have often pointed to
“nationalisting” and exclusive narratives constructed at the institutional level. Accordingly …

This study investigates how local identities of Taiwan are discursively constructed and how
language ideologies concerning Chinese and English are manifested in the process in …

This paper primarily focuses on the family language policy of bilingual Russian-Estonian
and Russian-Spanish families in relation to the maintenance of Russian as a heritage …

This thesis investigates attitudes expressed by UK primary school educators towards
children institutionally classified as English as an Additional Language ('EAL') in mainstream …