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Students' Attitudinal Development in a Dual Language Bilingual Education Program from Grade 1 to Grade 5
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Block, Nicholas C. – Bilingual Research Journal, 2023
Measures of 31 Latinx students' attitudes in a Grade 5 Spanish dual language bilingual education (DLBE) program were compared with those of the same students four years prior. Twenty-one mainstream English students comprised a comparison group for the same time period. Some statistically significant changes occurred for students in DLBE related to…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Bilingual Education, Elementary School Students, English Language Learners
Centering the Fourth Pillar in Times of TWBE Gentrification: "Spanish, Love, Content, Not in That Order"
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Heiman, Daniel; Yanes, Michelle – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2018
The growth of TWBE programs--mainly due to the surging interest of White English-speaking families--presents the field with myriad challenges and hopeful possibilities. Critical scholars in bilingual education point to an urgency to reissue Guadalupe Valdés's "cautionary note" due to a neoliberal path targeting TWBE programs, posing a…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Bilingual Education Programs, Ethnography, Difficulty Level
Violence on the US-Mexico Border and the Capital Students Use in Response
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Araujo, Blanca; de la Piedra, Maria Teresa – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2013
Recent studies have identified multiple forms of capital that Latino students acquire in their homes and communities. Influenced by these studies, this article examines how transnational students of Mexican origin use various forms of their community's cultural wealth as tools to survive situations of violence in Mexico. In this article, we…
Descriptors: Violence, Hispanic American Students, Drug Abuse, Crime
Perceived Impact of Two-Way Dual Immersion Programs on Latino Students' Relationships in Their Families and Communities
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Block, Nicholas C. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2012
This study examined how participation of Latino students in two-way dual immersion versus mainstream programs might have impacted students' relationships with Spanish-speaking adults, thus affecting contexts for students to develop resiliency. Participants were parents of 90 fifth- and sixth-grade students (initially English proficient [EP] as…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Second Language Learning, Statistical Analysis, Spanish Speaking
Exploring Student Integration Patterns in Two-Way Immersion Schools
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Martinez, Martha I. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Two-way immersion (TWI) programs teach English Learners (ELs) and native English speakers in the same classroom using both languages in an immersion approach. Studies suggest that TWI programs result in greater student integration, thus providing a promising alternative for Spanish speaking ELs, who are frequently concentrated in high poverty,…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Focus Groups, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Students with Visual Impairments in a Dual-Language Program: A Case Study
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Milian, Madeline; Pearson, Vicki – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2005
Dual-language education, or dual immersion, is an educational model that is used in public school districts in the United States to provide education to English-speaking and non-English-speaking children with the goal of having each group of students learn a second language. Over the past 30 years, there has been a dramatic increase in the number…
Descriptors: Visual Impairments, Immersion Programs, Second Language Instruction, Public Schools