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Catherine Lemmi; Greses Pérez – International Journal of Science Education, 2024
In a phenomenon known as translanguaging, multilingual learners draw freely from their repertoires without regard for language boundaries. Although multilingual learners live their lives between languages in their communities, science education is just beginning to acknowledge the important role of their hybrid language practices for learning.…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Public Schools, Bilingual Teachers, Bilingual Students
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Hongye Zeng – Reading Teacher, 2024
Writing in school has long been disconnected and inauthentic to multilingual learners due to its monolingual, language-focused, and standardized features. Although more and more researchers have called for and explored newer asset-based writing pedagogies, such as digital multimodal writing, to support diverse learners in response to emerging…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Bilingual Students, Multiple Literacies, Learning Modalities
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Yalda M. Kaveh; Ashley Lenz – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The purpose of this sociolinguistic study is to examine language beliefs, emotions, and practices of twenty bi/multilingual fourth-grade children of immigrants in monolingual U.S. schools in relation to societal language ideologies. This qualitative multiple case study included individual semi-structured interviews with bi/multilingual children…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Bilingual Students, Immigrants, Monolingualism
Martin, Alisha – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Purpose: The overarching purpose of this journal-ready dissertation was to determine the degree to which differences existed in Grade 4 STAAR Writing performance by student economic status, gender, and language status. In the first article, the purpose was to investigate the extent to which student economic status (i.e., Not Poor, Moderately Poor,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Writing Achievement, Socioeconomic Status, Gender Differences
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Costanza Ruffini; Eva Bei; Chiara Pecini – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2024
Socio-emotional school behavior and learning are both fundamental aspects of children's development influenced by cognitive control processes named Executive Functions (EF). Yet, research on school-age children has often focused on the relationship between EF and learning skills overlooking that of EF and school behavior, which has usually been…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Child Development, Grade 3, Grade 4
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Hamman-Ortiz, Laura; Santiago Schwarz, Vanessa; Hamm-Rodríguez, Molly; Gort, Mileidis – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2023
This article reports on findings from the first year of a professional learning partnership aimed at supporting elementary teachers in improving their writing instruction for emergent bilingual students. Specifically, we present a case study of one fourth grade teacher's writing instruction, exploring how an introduction to a functional approach…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Writing Instruction, Bilingual Students, Faculty Development
Colleen Annie Mitchell – ProQuest LLC, 2024
There is lack of inclusive diversity within gifted and talented education programs, which has been a persistently clear problem since their inauguration in 1962. Existing data shows there are more girls than boys identified as gifted and talented, yet a disparaging difference continues where girls identified for English as a second language…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Grade 4, Teacher Attitudes, Instructional Effectiveness
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Dong, Yixiao; Dumas, Denis; Clements, Douglas H.; Sarama, Julie – Journal of Experimental Education, 2023
Dynamic Measurement Modeling (DMM) is a recently-developed measurement framework for gauging developing constructs (e.g., learning capacity) that conventional single-timepoint tests cannot assess. The current project developed a person-specific DMM Trajectory Deviance Index (TDI) that captures the aberrance of an individual's growth from the…
Descriptors: Measurement Techniques, Simulation, Student Development, Educational Research
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Tong, Xiuhong; Kwan, Joyce Lok Yin; Xiuli Tong, Shelley; Deacon, S. Hélène – Reading Research Quarterly, 2022
Syntax, or sentence structure, plays a role in reading comprehension, but how students draw on their awareness of syntax in their reading remains unclear; the mechanism is even more ambiguous in bilingual students. In this study, we evaluated the direct and indirect contributions of syntactic awareness on first-language Chinese and second-language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Native Language, Chinese, English (Second Language)
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Farrugia, Marie Thérèse – Teachers College Record, 2022
Context: The island of Malta is a former British colony, and to this day, education continues to be accessed bilingually. For mathematics education, Maltese and English are used for verbal interaction, with subject-specific words tending to be retained in English. Written mathematics texts are in English, including textbooks, worksheets, digital…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingual Education, Language of Instruction, Semitic Languages
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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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Gort, Mileidis; Hamm-Rodríguez, Molly – Reading Teacher, 2022
This article illustrates how two fourth-grade bilingual teachers transformed their writing instruction for bi/multilingual learners by integrating a functional approach to language and literacy teaching and learning. The authors use a systemic functional linguistics genre pedagogy to explore and elucidate the teachers' innovative instructional…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Bilingual Students, Multilingualism, Bilingualism
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Almaguer, Isela; Esquierdo, J. Joy – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2022
This study aimed to compare the performance on the state assessment STAAR Reading between BLs in a one-way dual language program compared to the average scale scores of ELs in the state of Texas. The results of these data points taken in three different grade levels from the same group of bilingual learners demonstrate the beginning of positive…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Achievement Tests, Bilingual Students, Elementary School Students
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Camping, April; Graham, Steve; Harris, Karen R. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2023
This study examined the intrinsic, extrinsic, and self-regulatory motives for writing and writing achievement of three groups of third- to fifth-grade students in an urban school district: (a) 189 emergent bilingual students receiving services for English language development (ELD); (b) 374 reclassified bilingual students who had exited ELD…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Writing Achievement, Elementary School Students, English Language Learners
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