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Ballinger, Susan – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2017
Previous studies have shown that immersion students tend to speak the majority language during peer interactions, regardless of the language of instruction or their dominant language. Researchers have argued that the societal status of the majority language presents an obstacle to providing equitable support for both languages of instruction. To…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Language Usage, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Martinez-Roldan, Carmen; Sayer, Peter – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2006
This study examines the biliteracy development of a group of bilingual Latino third graders in an elementary school in the south-west USA. It focuses on the role of language in children's reading comprehension of narrative texts in Spanish and English in a school context. The authors frame their analysis within the "Continua of Biliteracy" model…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Grade 3, Reading Comprehension, Second Language Learning
Bougie, Evelyne; Wright, Stephen C.; Taylor, Donald M. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2003
This research explored the impact of the abrupt shift from heritage-language to dominant-language education on Inuit children's personal and collective self-esteem. Specifically, the following question was addressed: will early heritage-language education serve as an inoculation against the potential negative impact of being submerged in a…
Descriptors: Language Dominance, Bilingual Education, Eskimos, Foreign Countries