This paper builds on a collaborative pilot project Critical Multilingual Language Awareness (CMLA) in linguistically diverse Preparatory Class with migrant adolescents Sweden. Importantly, the approach involved Study Mentors (MSMs), whose role normally is to provide scaffolding strongest language of recently arrived students facilitate learning instruction. Previous research has shown that MSMs...

Our starting point is the growing concern around role of Facebook in spreading (dis)information and polarising political opinion, subsequent debates need for enhanced critical digital literacies. The article reports on a study which drew elicited data from users to explore their awareness communicative norms social networks shaping use site. analysis makes two key contributions. Firstly, we the...

This critical review investigates differences in phonological awareness abilities of monolingual and bilingual children. Study designs included 6 cohort studies describing and comparing two distinct linguistic groups. Overall the evidence is inconclusive, with some studies supporting, and others refuting, a bilingual advantage to phonological awareness. Although no generalized understanding of ...

This paper draws from a collaborative project in which we piloted Critical Multilingual Language Awareness approach (CMLA) preparatory class for recently arrived secondary school students Sweden. We adapted material on Are (https://www.wamcam.org). followed the five principles of educational design multilingual learners, also relate to cognitive, performative, affective, social and power domain...

the purpose of this study was to probe the effect of metacognitive strategy instruction through dialogic interaction on the reading comprehension performance and metacognitive awareness of iranian efl learners. the data were collected through the survey of reading strategies (sors) and a reading test to examine changes in metacognitive awareness and reading performance before and after the inte...

the present study was conducted to investigate how efl learners with distinct levels of emotional intelligence might benefit from critical thinking-based instruction and use different language learning strategies. a further concern of this study was to investigate the relationship among critical thinking, language learning strategy, and emotional intelligence of efl learners. to this end, 88 ef...