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Landes-Lee, Jill; Watzinger-Tharp, Johanna – Foreign Language Annals, 2023
Students who participate in advanced coursework in high school are more likely to enroll and persist in college. This study measured college readiness indicators of high school seniors enrolled in the Utah Spanish Bridge Program and analyzed whether performance differed based on race/ethnicity or on parent college completion. Findings show that…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Advanced Courses
Enriquez, Jose E. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Hispanic students make up 12% of the enrollment in Utah elementary and secondary schools but only 3.4% of the enrollment at Utah's colleges and universities, according to Aleman and Rorrer (2006). The intervention Latinos in Action (LIA) seeks to increase high school completion and college graduation rates among emergent bilingual Latinos by…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, High School Students, Student Journals, Learner Engagement
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Coles-Ritchie, Marilee; Lugo, Jennifer – Educational Action Research, 2010
This paper explores how critical teacher action research (CTAR) supported the process of developing and implementing a Spanish for Heritage Speakers (SHS) course in a high school, notwithstanding a low percentage of heritage language learners. The purpose of the paper was to explore how a teacher was able to navigate the secondary school…
Descriptors: Action Research, Educational Change, Spanish Speaking, Heritage Education