Blar i Bergen Open Research Archive på forfatter "Calafato, Raees"
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Comics as a multimodal resource and students’ willingness to communicate in Russian
Calafato, Raees; Gudim, Freda (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The multimodal nature of daily interactions in the twenty-first century has led to growing calls for the inclusion of multimodal content like comics in foreign language classrooms. Such content, as opposed to traditional ... -
Evaluating teacher multilingualism across contexts and multiple languages: validation and insights
Calafato, Raees (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)In response to the need for quantitative instruments that can provide insights into language teacher multilingualism on a large scale, this article discusses the development of the MULTITEACH questionnaire via a five-stage ... -
“I feel like it’s giving me a lot as a language teacher to be a learner myself”: Factors affecting the implementation of a multilingual pedagogy as reported by teachers of diverse languages
Calafato, Raees (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)To boost the foreign language learning process, language teachers need to know how to implement a multilingual pedagogy, that is, they should be able to draw on their and their students’ knowledge of other languages during ... -
“I’m a salesman and my client is China”: Language learning motivation, multicultural attitudes, and multilingualism among university students in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan
Calafato, Raees (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The Central Asian republics represent an interesting yet little-studied space for researching the interplay between language learning motivation (LLM), multiculturalism, and multilingualism given their cultural and linguistic ... -
Language teacher multilingualism in Norway and Russia: Identity and beliefs
Calafato, Raees (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Multilingualism has witnessed growing interest as a subject of academic study and as a state to aspire to for many of the world's citizenry. In tandem with this growing interest, countries around the world have started to ... -
Learning Arabic in Scandinavia: Motivation, metacognition, and autonomy
Calafato, Raees (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Rising levels of immigration, especially from the Middle East and North Africa, have led to significant socio-demographic changes and increasing levels of linguistic diversity in Scandinavian countries. In parallel with ... -
Literature in contemporary foreign language school textbooks in Russia: Content, approaches, and readability
Calafato, Raees; Gudim, Freda (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-05-05)In light of the growing importance placed by states on the use of authentic materials in foreign language education programs, this study explored the literary content found in the 18 English, French, and German ministry-approved ... -
Multilingual, bilingual, and monolingual Arabic teachers’ development of learner self‐regulation and language awareness in the Emirates
Tang, Fei; Calafato, Raees (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Multilingual learning and teaching have been receiving growing attention of late as many cities and states undergo significant demographic changes brought about by increasing levels of human migration. The onset of ... -
Policies, textbooks, and curriculum constraints to integrating literature into language education: EFL teacher perspectives from Russia
Calafato, Raees (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)Employing a qualitative design, this exploratory study examined the challenges and constraints encountered by foreign language teachers in Russia when using literature in their lessons in primary, secondary and tertiary ... -
Teachers’ reported implementation of multilingual teaching practices in foreign language classrooms in Norway and Russia
Calafato, Raees (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This study investigated the extent to which 517 teachers of English, French, German, and Spanish in Norwegian and Russian schools reported drawing on their and their students' multilingualism as a resource and boosting ...