A Study on the Growing Tendency of Students Involved in the Submersion Program in Georgian Schools and the Effectiveness of Its Implementation

  • Author : "Elene (Lena) Jajanidze"
  • Topic : "submersion education, affirmative action policy, bilingual education, teachers, minority students."
  • Issue : 53
  • DOI : 10.22333/ijme.2021.17001
  • received : 12.05.2021
  • revised: 03.06.2021
  • accepted : 29.06.2021
  • Pages : 1-24
  • Abstract : The article presents a brief overview of the introduction of bilingual education in Georgian schools. The main focus of the paper is to study the issue of implementation and effectiveness of submersion classrooms. As a result of the qualitative research
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Pluricentrity, Multilingualism and Heterogeneity of the Learners’ Groups

  • Author : "Ekaterina Protassova"
  • Topic : "language learning in higher education, heterogeneous classroom, heritage language speaker, Russian as a pluricentric language, Russian language learners"
  • Issue : 53
  • DOI : 10.22333/ijme.2021.17002
  • received : 11.05.2021
  • revised: 13.06.2021
  • accepted : 29.06.2021
  • Pages : 25-46
  • Abstract : Multilingualism, superdiversity, and the abundance of language contacts place new demands on language teachers, who must consider each student’s linguistic biography, family language policies, and cultural practices in order to keep up with their growth i
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Reconsidering Monolingual Strategies of Bilingual Education through Translanguaging and Plurilingual Educational Approaches. Are We Moving Back or Forward?

  • Author : "Shalva Tabatadze"
  • Topic : "Translanguaging, Bilingual Education, Georgia, Monolingual and Multilingual Approaches"
  • Issue : 53
  • DOI : 10.22333/ijme.2021.17003
  • received : 04.05,2021
  • revised: 04.06.2021
  • accepted : 29.06.2021
  • Pages : 47-63
  • Abstract : This study explores monolingual and multilingual strategies in bilingual education by investigating translanguaging practices in the Georgian monolingual Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL). Two research questions guided this research: (1) Wha
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Pseudo incorrect use of “singulare tantum” forms in social media Georgian

  • Author : "Zakharia Pourtskhvanidze"
  • Topic : "Standard Language, Social Media Language, “singulare tantum”, Superlative, Second Language learning."
  • Issue : 53
  • DOI : 10.22333/ijme.2021.17004
  • received : 02.05.2021
  • revised: 03.06.2021
  • accepted : 29.06.2021
  • Pages : 64-70
  • Abstract : In language teaching, the standard language is the basis of the teaching content and offers learners a limited perspective of use in communication. The semi-spontaneous use of language in the web, on the other hand, generates grammatically unconventional
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Implications on applying the Web 2.0 software to teach a Chinese L2 learner online

  • Author : "Qiao-Yu Cai"
  • Topic : "Distance Chinese learning, digital tools, E-learning, modular teaching"
  • Issue : 53
  • DOI : 10.22333/ijme.2021.17005
  • received : 07.05.2021
  • revised: 03.06.2021
  • accepted : 29.06.2021
  • Pages : 71-82
  • Abstract : The rise of information and communication technologies has increased people’s access to educational resources and stormed the process of E-learners in the past decades. Recently, the COVID-19 pandemic forced more people to stay at home to do things via on
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On the Issue of Reading Multimodal Texts

  • Author : "Roma Kriau?i?nien? & Paul? Papaur?lyt?"
  • Topic : "print, online, multimodal texts, reading, lexical density."
  • Issue : 53
  • DOI : 10.22333/ijme.2021.17006
  • received : 11.05.2021
  • revised: 13.06.2021
  • accepted : 29.06.2021
  • Pages : 83-104
  • Abstract : Most of our reading practices have moved from print-based to online texts, which integrate not only linguistic expression but various images, sounds, other meaning making elements, therefore the reader's engagement with the text has changed as well. Whi
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