Learning and Teaching of English in the Multilingual Classroom: English Teachers’ Perspectives, Practices, and Purposes

Abstract

In many educational settings, the number of multilingual students is currently rising (Singleton and Aronin 2018) [...]

Assessing knowledge of English verb placement and subject-verb agreement among multilingual students in grades 5–7 in Norway

“…Additionally, English instruction in Norway has largely been rooted within a monolingual framework (Brevik, Rindal, & Beiler, 2020;, meaning that the default assumption is that students' first language is Norwegian, and multilingual students are treated as an exception. While teachers may be aware that some of their students have a different L1, they are often unsure of how to use multilingualism as a resource in the classroom or they lack the more general linguistic competence that would enable them to better support minority language students Krulatz & Torgersen, 2016;Šurkalović, 2014).…”