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Alejandro Granados Vargas; Elizabeth D. Peña; Lisa M. Bedore – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Aims: We investigate the relationship between narrative macrostructure, current language exposure, and microstructure in second-grade Spanish-English bilingual children in the United States. Macrostructure knowledge has been claimed to be shared across languages in multilingual individuals. We examine the role of current language exposure and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Grade 2, English, Spanish
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Meredith McConnochie – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2024
This article presents an ethnographic case study of how deficit beliefs shape the ways teachers call upon Latinx emergent bilinguals and families to engage in the schooling process. Informed by theories of language socialization, this study examines how one second-grade bilingual teacher called upon students and families of Mexican origin to…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Grade 2, Bilingual Teachers, Bilingualism
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Angela Johnson – Teachers College Record, 2024
Background or Context: Dual language education aims to foster the development of bilingualism, biliteracy, sociocultural competence, and academic skills in all school subjects. Early correlational research suggests that participation in dual language education is associated with higher achievement. Recent studies leveraged more comprehensive sets…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Hispanic American Students, Grade 2, Grade 3
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Doré R. LaForett; Ximena Franco-Jenkins; Adam Winsler; M. Taylor Eron; Kaitlyn Mumma; My V. H. Nguyen – NABE Journal of Research and Practice, 2023
This study examined teachers' adherence to the language of instruction in dual language education (DLE) programs among teachers in 19 kindergarten through 3rd grade Spanish-English two-way DLE immersion classrooms (n = 5, 90/10 model; n = 14, 50/50 model). Teachers were observed toward the beginning and end of the school year to determine…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Elementary School Teachers, Kindergarten, Grade 1
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Pratt, Amy S.; Adams, Ashley M.; Peña, Elizabeth D.; Bedore, Lisa M. – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2022
We explore the classification accuracy of a parent and teacher report measure, the Inventory to Assess Language Knowledge (ITALK), to screen for developmental language disorder (DLD) in bilingual children. Participants were 120 Spanish-English bilingual children with typical development (TD) and 19 bilingual children with DLD, ranging in age from…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Screening Tests, Developmental Delays, Language Impairments
Berndt, Esther Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Oral language is foundational to literacy. Because their language is under construction, emergent bilingual students have unique needs related to literacy development regardless of the language of instruction. Knowledge teachers gain through formative assessment of student oral language can guide decisions about literacy instruction. The purpose…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Knowledge Level, Formative Evaluation, Literacy Education
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Grace Jue Yeon Kim – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
After the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, the disruption of in-person schooling has significantly affected many students including emergent bilingual students. Designed as an ethnographic study, this research study examines two Spanish-English dual language bilingual education teachers' implementation of translanguaging pedagogies and language…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Translation, Socialization, COVID-19
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Hyun, Jungwon; Heidt, Esther Bettney; Prasad, Gail – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 2022
Language separation policies in two-way bilingual education (TWBE) reflect ideologies of double monolingualism (Heller, 1995) and ignore the sociolinguistic realities of bi/multilingual students (García & Lin, 2017). This case study investigates the design and implementation of collaborative multilingual identity text projects (Prasad, 2018)…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Immersion Programs, Multilingualism, Spanish
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Petersen, Douglas B.; Spencer, Trina D.; Konishi, Alisa; Sellars, Tiffany P.; Foster, Matthew E.; Robertson, Dana – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this pilot study was to determine whether parallel measures of narrative-based listening comprehension and reading comprehension reflected the same construct and yielded comparable scores from a diverse sample of second- and third-grade students. One hundred ten students participated in this study. Method: Three listening…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Reading Comprehension, Grade 2, Grade 3
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Manyak, Patrick C.; Kappus, Ellen M. – Journal of Educational Research, 2021
This article reports on a formative experiment involving the implementation of long-term multifaceted vocabulary instruction in second-grade Spanish-English dual-immersion classes. The findings indicate that students in the second year of the project showed accelerated growth in English vocabulary knowledge in comparison to the norming sample of a…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Grade 2, Elementary School Students, Immersion Programs
Alissa Patricia Wolters – ProQuest LLC, 2023
We examined spelling errors patterns, cohesive ties, and syntax features in English and Spanish essays written by Spanish-English emergent bilinguals in Grades 1, 2, and 3 (N = 278; 51% female) enrolled in either English immersion or English-Spanish dual immersion programs. In Study 1, we addressed whether students made consistent spelling errors…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Elementary School Students
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Cross, Nina – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2020
This paper examines two language practices of students in a predominantly African American bilingual second grade class: language play and identity formation. Prevalent notions about legitimate language knowledge are visible in the school's curriculum, language goals, and assessment requirements. Additionally, discussions about bilingual…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 2, Bilingual Students, Bilingual Education
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McMillen, Stephanie; Anaya, Jissel B.; Peña, Elizabeth D.; Bedore, Lisa M.; Barquin, Elisa – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
Research has investigated how lexical-semantic and participant factors impact word learning in young children and adults. However, limited information pertaining to expressive vocabulary development exists for school-aged bilinguals--particularly those with developmental language disorder (DLD). Cross-linguistic differences in the semantic…
Descriptors: Spanish, English, Semantics, Vocabulary Development
Ximena Franco-Jenkins; Doré R. LaForett; Adam Winsler; Diego Ordoñez Rojas – Grantee Submission, 2023
The present study examined parents' and teachers' perceptions of student learning in Spanish-English Dual Language Education (DLE) programs during the COVID-19 pandemic. The participants included 72 parents of students from kindergarten to second grade and eight teachers in two schools in the southeastern U.S. Parents retrospectively reported…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Bilingual Education, Spanish, English
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Hamman-Ortiz, Laura – Bilingual Research Journal, 2019
There is ongoing debate within the field of bilingual education concerning the extent to which instructional languages should be separated. However, neither side has sufficiently addressed how language practices and policies shape the ideological space of the classroom, and the concomitant implications for student learning and sense-making around…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Language of Instruction, Ideology, Grade 2
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