Multilingual Education and Policy

ABSTRACT Focusing on Turkish as a second language (L2) education among migrant learners in Türkiye, this systematic review examines how empirical research has conceptualized the pedagogical, institutional, affective, and social conditions shaping Turkish language education between 2014 and 2025. Following the PRISMA 2…

Although centralized education systems mandate uniform curricula, the enactment of these policies varies across institutional contexts. Drawing on a sociocultural perspective of curriculum enactment and teacher cognition, this multiple-case study investigates how English language instruction is conceptualized and enac…

This ethnographic case study investigates the home–school transition of bilingual children from under-schooled multilingual households in Türkiye, with attention to families' and teachers' perspectives on literacy and schooling. Guided by ecological theory and a sociocritical literacy framework, the study examines the…

Bu çalışmanın amacı, yabancı dil olarak Türkçe ve İngilizce A1 düzeyi öğretim kitaplarında akrabalık adlarının sunumunu; kapsam, derinlik ve kültürel model boyutları üzerinden karşılaştırmalı olarak incelemektir. Çalışmada nitel araştırma yaklaşımları benimsenmiş ve doküman incelemesi modeli kullanılmıştır. Araştırman…

This study explores the multi-layered relationship between culture acquisition and language from a comprehensive theoretical perspective. Culture is conceptualized not as a static entity but as a dynamic and evolving process that shapes individuals’ social identities, value systems, and everyday practices. In this con…

Toplum çevirmenliği, farklı dil ve kültürlere sahip bireylerin kamu hizmetlerine erişimini kolaylaştıran önemli bir iletişim aracıdır. Özellikle sağlık, hukuk, eğitim ve sosyal hizmetler gibi alanlarda gerçekleştirilen toplum çevirmenliği faaliyetleri, yalnızca dilsel aktarımı değil aynı zamanda kültürel bağlamın doğr…

Translanguaging provides a multilingual and inclusive language learning environment that emphasizes the equal value of various languages by strategically and consciously using two or more languages. This state-of-the-art review study aims to examine Translanguaging pedagogy from the perspective of English language lea…

This chapter discusses how early childhood teacher identity is reconstructed in the context of changing educational landscapes, especially related to language education. It states that given the interplay of migration, multilingualism and inclusion in education as also neurodiversity, digital transformation or AI and…

In English language teaching (ELT), pedagogical evidence rarely transfers intact across educational systems, a challenge particularly salient in Turkish ELT. This perspective article introduces contextual validity as an analytical and evaluative framework for judging whether a research-supported pedagogy remains educa…

The present study explores the attitudes of monolingual and bilingual teachers towards Translanguaging Pedagogy (TP) in multilingual educational contexts. Following a qualitative case study design, the research collected data from four English Language Teachers currently working in MoNE Public schools in Hakkari provi…

Purpose Increasing global mobility has enabled language teachers to work across national, linguistic and cultural boundaries, leading to processes of professional identity construction and negotiation in transnational educational contexts. While previous studies on transnational language teachers’ identity development…

As global migration continues to reshape contemporary societies, destination language learning is central to newly arrived migrant children’s inclusion in mainstream education. This mixed methods, cross-cultural comparative study examined how migration-related characteristics and family environment are associated with…