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"This Is a Very Sensitive Point": Bilingual Teachers' Interactions with Neo-Nationalism in a Two-Way Immersion Program in the United States
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Lima Becker, Mariana; Oliveira, Gabrielle – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2023
Concurrent with the rise in U.S. neo-nationalism is the growing influx of im/migrant children in the nation's schools. This article explores how a group of eight K-3 Brazilian bilingual teachers in a Portuguese-English Two-Way Immersion (TWI) program in the United States interact with neo-nationalist discourses pertaining to the theme of…
Descriptors: Bilingual Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Primary Education, Foreign Countries
Unilateral Translanguaging: Teachers' Language Use, Perceptions, and Experience in a Portuguese-English Two-Way Immersion Program
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Lima Becker, Mariana; Chang-Bacon, Chris K.; Oliveira, Gabrielle – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
This study documents the notion of unilateral translanguaging--the configuration of translanguaging spaces to disproportionately privilege a dominant language or its speakers. We analyze four teachers' translanguaging practices in a Portuguese-English two-way immersion (TWI) program in the United States. Rather than focusing on whether and how…
Descriptors: Portuguese, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction