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Subgroups within a Heterogeneous Population: Considering Contextual Factors That Influence the Formation of Dual Language Learner Profiles in Head Start
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Lisa M. Lopez; Matthew E. Foster; Shaunacy Sutter; Karen Nylund-Gibson; Dina A. N. Arch – Grantee Submission, 2024
Emerging research suggests English and Spanish proficiencies of young Latine dual language learners (DLLs) are heterogeneous, including subgroups characterized by varying levels of English and Spanish dominance and proficiencies. However, there is limited understanding of contextual factors associated with the formation of DLL profiles. This study…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Low Income Students, Social Services, Preschool Children
Subgroups within a Heterogeneous Population: Considering Contextual Factors That Influence the Formation of Dual Language Learner Profiles in Head Start
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Lisa M. López; Matthew E. Foster; Shaunacy Sutter; Karen Nylund-Gibson; Dina A. N. Arch – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
Emerging research suggests English and Spanish proficiencies of young Latine dual language learners (DLLs) are heterogeneous, including subgroups characterized by varying levels of English and Spanish dominance and proficiencies. However, there is limited understanding of contextual factors associated with the formation of DLL profiles. This study…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Low Income Students, Social Services, Preschool Children
Innovative Solutions to Support Spanish-Speaking Early Educators: Examples from Briya Public Charter School in Washington, DC
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Kushner, Beth; Castro-Trujillo, Mau – COABE Journal: The Resource for Adult Education, 2021
As a reaction to new citywide regulations requiring Child Development Associate (CDA) credentials and associate's degrees in early childhood education for those working in childcare facilities and home daycares in Washington, DC, Briya Public Charter School (Briya) created pathways to further the education for their largest population, Spanish…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Public Schools, Spanish Speaking, Early Childhood Education
Partners in Resettlement and Adult Education: Former Refugees and Host Communities
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Jenny Field; Celine Kearney – Educational Linguistics, 2021
New Zealand has expanded its refugee resettlement programme. Government policy changes, announced in 2018, meant the refugee quota which has been 750 for about 30 years would increase to 1500 people (Immigration New Zealand, Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment, New Zealand immigration. Immigration Factsheets: Refugees and Asylum…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Land Settlement, Refugees, Adult Literacy
Building Bridges and Strengthening Positions: Exploring the Identity Construction of Immigrant Bilingual Teachers
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Colliander, Helena – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2020
This study explores how bilingual teachers with an immigrant background construct professional identity in the context of initial literacy and second language teaching of adults. Specifically, the study seeks to understand what the teachers' membership of different work-related communities means for their professional identity and what capital the…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Immigrants, Bilingual Teachers, Professional Identity
Examining the Functions of L1 Use through Teacher and Student Interactions in an Adult Migrant English Classroom
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Ma, Lai Ping Florence – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2019
The first language (L1) of language learners is a rich source of language knowledge that bilingual teachers and learners can bring to classrooms to facilitate second-language (L2) acquisition. While previous research suggests that L1 can provide learners with cognitive, pedagogical, and psychological benefits, what functions that it performs and…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Role, Second Language Learning, Immigrants
Theorizing and Analyzing Language Teacher Agency. New Perspectives on Language and Education
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Kayi-Aydar, Hayriye, Ed.; Gao, Xuesong, Ed.; Miller, Elizabeth R., Ed.; Varghese, Manka, Ed.; Vitanova, Gergana, Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2019
This volume examines the agency of second/foreign language teachers in diverse geographical contexts and in both K-12 and adult education. It offers new understandings and conceptualizations of second/foreign language teacher agency through a variety of types of empirical data. It also demonstrates the use of different methodologies or analytic…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education, Adult Education