Abstract Language development is both remarkable and unremarkable. It is remarkable
because children learn the language (s) around them, signed or spoken, without explicit …

England has had a schools inspectorate since 1839, first in the form of Her Majesty's
Inspectorate (HMI), and since 1992, in the form of the Office for Standards in Education …

Early childhood education in grades preK–3 continues to contribute to future school
success. Discrimination, however, can still be an obstacle for many children of Latinx …

Educational linguists across England and the USA have long critiqued deficit-based
language ideologies in schools, yet since the early 2010s, these have enjoyed a marked …

Most US educational reforms have narrowly focused on how to improve the ways in which
students use language, and most specifically English. But in the last two decades, it is …

From the “verbal deprivation” and “restricted codes” of the 1960s to contemporary “language
gap” discourses, deficit models of children's language have been posited to explain social …

The author presents a critique of the deconstructivist perspective on translanguaging, which
doubts the ontology of discrete speech communities. This paper argues that such a position …

Abstract Most countries in Latin America are extending English language education in their
public school curricula by beginning earlier and increasing hours of L2 instruction. The …

Characteristics of the home language environment, independent of socioeconomic
background, may account for disparities in early language abilities. Past studies have …

ABSTRACT Both Sweden and Finland have education systems promoting equity and
equality. However, recent societal and political changes linked to increased immigration …