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Jie Zhang; Zhenjie Hou; Lana Kharabi-Yamato; Stephen Winton; Azizah Curry Iluore; Grace Lee; Huan Zhang; Rosa Nam – Journal of Research in Reading, 2024
Background: Upper elementary grade students encounter increasingly complex texts with abundant morphologically complex words. Despite the positive effects of morphology-based vocabulary instruction, emergent bilinguals with limited word reading skills may need additional support. Methods: This study investigated the effects of morphological…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Elementary School Students, Morphology (Languages), Vocabulary
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Klauda, Susan Lutz; Taboada Barber, Ana; McAllen, Elizabeth B. – Reading Psychology, 2020
Employing a mixed methods approach, this study examined the reading motivations of dual language learners (DLLs) in Grades 3-5 in a suburban Title I school in which the student population was predominantly Hispanic. Twenty-one students completed self-report surveys and participated in interviews focused on two intrinsic motivations (involvement…
Descriptors: Reading Motivation, Bilingual Students, Elementary School Students, Hispanic American Students
Klauda, Susan Lutz; Taboada Barber, Ana; McAllen, Elizabeth B. – Grantee Submission, 2020
Employing a mixed methods approach, this study examined the reading motivations of dual language learners (DLLs) in Grades 3-5 in a suburban Title I school in which the student population was predominantly Hispanic. Twenty-one students completed self-report surveys and participated in interviews focused on two intrinsic motivations (involvement…
Descriptors: Reading Motivation, Bilingual Students, Elementary School Students, Hispanic American Students
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Salmerón, Cori – Bilingual Research Journal, 2022
While scholars across a range of disciplines challenge the idea that bi/multilinguals have separate linguistic repertoires, monolingual expectations are common in bilingual education. Using elements of case study design and discourse analysis, I explore translanguaging as both a dynamic linguistic practice and a linguistically sustaining pedagogy…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Writing Teachers, Writing Instruction, Writing Workshops
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La Serna, Jillian – Foreign Language Annals, 2022
This paper draws from a broader research project and reports on literacy program supports and instructional strategies in two-way immersion (TWI) classrooms (Grades 3-5) where the partner language is Spanish. The study examined TWI classrooms in which students from multiple demographics were performing at or above the state average on reading…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Teaching Methods, Immersion Programs, Grade 3
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Taboada Barber, Ana; Klauda, Susan Lutz; Wang, Weimeng – Reading Research Quarterly, 2022
Socioemotional constructs have been receiving increased attention as contributors to individuals' literacy development. However, in comparison with positive socioemotional constructs, negative socioemotional constructs have been understudied with respect to their role in reading achievement in both emergent bilinguals (EBs) and English…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Reading, Reading Achievement, English Language Learners
Taboada Barber, Ana; Klauda, Susan Lutz; Wang, Weimeng – Grantee Submission, 2022
Socio-emotional constructs have been receiving increased attention as contributors to children's literacy development. However, in comparison to positive socio-emotional constructs, negative socio-emotional constructs have been understudied with respect to their role in reading achievement in both dual language learners (DLLs) and English speakers…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Reading, Reading Achievement, English Language Learners
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Doris Ann Villarreal – Bilingual Research Journal, 2024
This qualitative case study examines how one bilingual teacher draws on their critical consciousness to support immigrant students and their families. Drawing on the construct of conscientization, I argue praxis is the embodiment of critical consciousness through acts of responsiveness and actions educators enact to rewrite unjust spaces and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Teachers, Activism, Bilingual Education, Spanish
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Relyea, Jackie Eunjung; Amendum, Steven J. – Child Development, 2020
This study examined the extent to which kindergarten Spanish reading affected English reading growth trajectories through fourth grade among nationally representative Spanish-speaking bilingual students (N = 312) in the United States and whether the association varied by students' English oral proficiency. Multilevel growth curve analyses revealed…
Descriptors: Spanish Speaking, Bilingual Students, Language Proficiency, Kindergarten
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Lisa M. Domke; María A. Cerrato; Elizabeth H. Sanders; Michael Vo – Language and Education, 2025
Because word problems present mathematical information through a scenario, they are language-intensive and require mathematical and reading comprehension skills to solve them. In addition, they are linguistically complex, which makes them challenging for all learners, especially multilingual learners. Given the rising number of dual-language…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Word Problems (Mathematics), Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Skills
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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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Daly, Nicola; Kleker, Dorea; Short, Kathy G. – Language and Education, 2022
Children continuously engage in developing theories about how the world works as they inquire through play and interactions with others. In this study, we investigated children's in-process thinking in the form of working theories about language as they participated in engagements around dual language picturebooks in an afterschool club. Our…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Multilingual Materials, Bilingualism, Inquiry
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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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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
Jessica Somerville-Braun – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This study contributes to the paucity of research on transformative approaches to civic education in elementary school classrooms. In this dissertation, I explore how culturally and linguistically diverse fourth graders and their teacher in a Spanish-English two-way bilingual education (TWBE) classroom engaged in transformative civic education.…
Descriptors: Civics, Elementary School Students, Student Diversity, Bilingual Education
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