Cultural Awareness on A Bilingual Education: A Mixed Method Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Burhan Ozfidan ◽  
Mustafa Toprak
Keyword(s):  
Bilingual Education ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
Linguistic Knowledge ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
Educational Rights ◽  
Two Phases

AbstractThe purpose of this study is to investigate how a bilingual education program would protect the cultural inheritance, linguistic knowledge, ethnic and religious identity of minority peoples. This study utilized an explanatory sequential mixed method, conducted in two phases: a quantitative phase followed by a qualitative phase. Both quantitative and qualitative data reflected that a bilingual education program could increase the educational success of students and contribute to social justice including equal educational rights. Such as system might also increase brotherhood between different ethnic groups in society and perhaps resolve the conflicts among them. A bilingual education program for minority people is essential for equal access to education. It solves conflicts between different ethnic groups and brings happiness to the society.

scholarly journals A Framework for Understanding of Bilingual Education in Turkey: A Mixed Method Approach

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (10) ◽  
pp. 188
Author(s):  
Burhan Ozfidan ◽  
Lynn M. Burlbaw
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Bilingual Education ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
School Level ◽  
Linguistic Knowledge ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Qualitative Data Collection

This study seeks to identify the obstacles and opportunities involved in setting up a bilingual education system and to identify the challenges and benefits associated with the daily experience of maintaining a bilingual education model. This study discusses the benefits of developing a bilingual education program and what these programs can offer regarding concerns related to the lives of minority people in Turkey. Explanatory sequential mixed method was used for this study. The first phase of this study was a survey that measured the perspectives of educators regarding potential bilingual education curricula in Turkey. The second phase comprised a qualitative data collection process to expand on the findings of quantitative results. For quantitative data collection, 140 participants responded the survey instrument. Participants included 96 males and 44 females. For qualitative data collection, eight participants were interviewed. Both quantitative and qualitative data reflected the benefits of a bilingual education program. First, minority students who are taught by means of a bilingual education program can protect their linguistic knowledge, cultural heritage, ethnic, and religious identity. Second, they can increase their understanding of linguistic and cultural diversity. Third, school attendance at the primary school level could be increased. Fourth, a bilingual program could contribute to the reduction of inequalities.

scholarly journals Prospects for Bilingual Education Curriculum in Turkey: A Mainstream Issue

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Burhan Ozfidan ◽  
Hasan Aydin
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Bilingual Education ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
National Language ◽  
Education Curriculum ◽  
Language Resources ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
New Community

The goal of bilingual education is fostering academic achievement, assisting immigrant acculturation to a new community, enabling native speakers to learn a second language, conserving linguistic and cultural heritage of minority groups, and advancing national language resources. This study investigated how certain parameters such as the views and attitudes towards bilingual education and curriculum development may affect the development of a bilingual education curriculum in Turkey. This study is significant because it could pave the way for developing a bilingual education program in Turkey. This study used an explanatory sequential mixed method, conducted in two phases: a quantitative phase followed by a qualitative phase. For quantitative data collection, 140 participants responded the survey instrument. For qualitative data collection, 4 participants were interviewed. The results indicated that a bilingual education curriculum is necessary for the education system in Turkey because the population of minority peoples is quite large. Results also reflected that a bilingual education program in Turkey should focus on speaking, listening, writing, reading, and on the development of vocabulary. Universities should open language teacher training departments for teachers who are going to teach in two languages. Examining and implementing elements of bilingual education models from other countries could prove helpful in establishing an efficient bilingual education program in Turkey.

scholarly journals Politeness of Vietnamese Students in Writing Request Email in English: a Course-based and Socio-pragmatic Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-128
Author(s):  
Thi Minh Trang Pham ◽  
Aiden Yeh
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Linguistic Knowledge ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Politeness Strategies ◽  
High Level ◽  
Pragmatic Knowledge ◽  
Determining Factor

This exploratory study investigates politeness strategies employed by Vietnamese EFL learners when writing English request emails sent to foreign and Vietnamese professors and school staff. A corpus-based critical discourse analysis is used to analyze sub-elements of politeness including the degree of imposition, terms of address, request-giving strategy and lexicon-syntactic modifier. The results support the assumption that Vietnamese language pragmatic knowledge is deeply ingrained and has tremendous influence on students’ L2 email writing skills. The study also reveals that Vietnamese students applied a high level of imposition with formal term of address and salutation, directness strategies with the overuse of “please” and other hedges. While gender is not a determining factor, the inflexible adoption of fixed phrases and syntactic-lexical devices were attributed to the lack of sociopragmatic competence. Thus, apart from linguistic knowledge, the role of cultural awareness and socio-pragmatic knowledge should be highlighted in communicative English learning and teaching.

scholarly journals Inclusão, educação superior e educação do/no campo: o PRONERA no contexto do capital

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (esp. 2) ◽  
pp. 1068-1092
Author(s):  
Carina Elisabeth Maciel ◽  
Celia Beatriz Piatti ◽  
Gisele da Rocha Souza
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Rural Education ◽  
Education Program ◽  
State Policy ◽  
Agrarian Reform ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
National Education ◽  
Land Struggle

This article aims to analyze the National Education Program on Agrarian Reform - PRONERA - as a higher education program that aims at inclusion at this level of education, but that finds resistance in the characteristics of a system that does not allow everyone access to education. This program is identified as State policy that has been maintained for 21 years, through clashes, struggles and demands, in opposition to the logic of plastered rural education, and proposes an emancipating, decolonizing education. The research is of bibliographic and documentary nature and, to subsidize the analyzes made, we resort to authors who reflect on the land struggle and agrarian reform, Rural Education, Alternation Pedagogy, Higher Education, in order to dialogue with Mészaros and Demir on the structural crisis of capital and its implications for rural education, with a focus on PRONERA. It is concluded that the inclusion policies made possible the development of PRONERA, but they maintain the neoliberal logic as structuring of this Program that, having as mentor an ultra-neoliberal government, has its principles shaken by the lack of resources and the prioritization of a privatized and meritocratic.

scholarly journals Studi Hubungan Ruralisasi Dengan Penduduk Lokal: Pola Kerukunan Hidup Umat Beragama Di Daerah Pinggiran Jakarta

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-106
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ridwan Lubis ◽  
Bambang Wirawan ◽  
Amirsyah Tambunan
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Work Ethic ◽  
Standard Of Living ◽  
Pull Factor ◽  
Permanent Migration ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Push Factor ◽  
Area Of Origin

There are four types patterns of shifting population due to the influence of modernity, namely ruralization, urbanization, transmigration and circulation. Ruralization is the movement from city to village while urbanization is moving from village to city. Migration is a permanent migration of people from one area to another. Finally, circulation is the movement of people to fulfill certain interests such as work and living in two different places, so they must move every day from village to city. This research focuses on the Study of the Relationship between Ruralization and Local Residents: The Pattern of Religious Harmony in the Suburbs of Jakarta. The overflow of Jakarta's population is accommodated by new growth areas which are then concluded to be Jakarta, Bogor, Depok, Tangerang, Bekasi. The occurrence of this displacement is due to a push factor from the area of origin, a pull factor from the destination. Attractor factor is the hope of getting opportunity to improve their standard of living and religious, political, and ethnic considerations in the area of origin. Eventhough religion is another factor but residents of villages as rural targets have religious affinity that is inherent in religious identity with ethnic groups, especially Betawi ethnic groups as local residents with migrants residents. Religious factors as a basis for determining the work ethic of social cohesiveness in this case religious harmony. Therefore, a strategy is needed to build social cohesiveness due to culture and diversity to avoid social tensions.

scholarly journals BILINGUALISM IN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE ENTITLED 25 BEAUTIFUL FRIENDSHIP

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Adek ◽  
Lilia Zahra Asifa
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Bilingual Education ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Verbal Communication ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Data Description ◽  
Entry Level ◽  
Food Items ◽  
Basic Level ◽  
The Way

Indonesia is one of the countries that has implemented a bilingual education program through English lessons since entry level. Therefore, this study aims to describe the effect of bilingual education on children’s language used. The object of research is a novel entitled 25 Beautiful Friendship by Annisa Zhahrotushama Balqis. Data description is managed by showing facts related to the influence of bilingualism (foreign language) on the language used by the author in her novel, such as giving names of titles, characters, places, food items, events and others. Based on the findings and results of the analysis above, it can be concluded that the massive teaching of foreign languages such as English into basic-level education has a significant impact on the way children convey their feelings and experiences in verbal communication.

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