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Rufan Luo; Lulu Song; Aniyah Davis-Hilton; Sarah Surrain – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
Despite a rapid growth in the number of dual language learning children (DLLs) in the United States, there is a limited understanding of what parents of DLLs believe and know about dual language learning and education, and how parental beliefs and knowledge relate to children's dual language experiences at home. In the current study, 225 parents…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Spanish, English, Language Usage
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Stephanie Wessels; Guy Trainin – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
This study examined the home literacy practices of bilingual families. We were specifically interested in the literacy practices families developed to answer the challenge of biliteracy. Through the home visits and supplying high quality bilingual books, we listened, observed, and gained a deeper understanding of the children and their families…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Family Literacy, Children, Books
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Ysaaca Axelrod – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
This article examines young children's perceptions and ideas about their emergent bilingualism drawing on data from an ethnographic case study of the language development of a Head Start classroom. The purpose of this study was to examine the language practices of 4-year-olds in a bilingual (Spanish/English) classroom. The findings discussed in…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Language Attitudes, Self Concept, Young Children
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Amy C. Crosson; Michael J. Kieffer; Margaret G. McKeown; William Nagy – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2025
Purpose: Converging evidence demonstrates that robust academic vocabulary and morphology instruction improves literacy outcomes of multilingual adolescents. However, few interventions have focused on teaching word analysis using bound Latin roots, the major meaning-carrying constituents of academic words (e.g. voc meaning "speak" in…
Descriptors: Reading Research, Contrastive Linguistics, Multilingualism, Vocabulary Development
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J. Joy Esquierdo; Isela Almaguer – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2025
The U.S. population has become more racially and ethnically diverse over time. The Latinx population growth makes Spanish the most common language encountered in non-native English-speaking populations such as Texas. The research objective of this study was to examine if implementing a One-Way Dual Language Education (DLE) Program could result in…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Hispanic American Students, Bilingual Students, Standardized Tests
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Young-Suk Grace Kim – Reading Research Quarterly, 2025
We examined the relations of language skills (vocabulary, listening comprehension, and oral retell), transcription skills (spelling and handwriting fluency), and domain-general cognitions/executive functions (working memory and attentional control) to writing quality for English-Spanish emergent bilingual children in Grade 1. Data were from a…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, English (Second Language), Spanish, Language Skills