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Toledo, Gloria; Lizasoain, Andrea; Cerda-Oñate, Karina – Journal of Teacher Education and Educators, 2022
This paper describes a study exploring in-service (IS) and pre-service (PS) teachers' language ideologies about non-Spanish-speaking students' multilingualism in Chilean classrooms. A survey was answered by 69 IS teachers and 34 PS teachers in the Chilean school system. Both groups were asked about two dimensions: (a) teachers' knowledge and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Teachers, Student Attitudes
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Prendes-Espinosa, María-Paz; García-Tudela, Pedro-Antonio; Solano-Fernández, Isabel-María – Comunicar: Media Education Research Journal, 2020
This article focuses on gender equality as one of the most relevant objectives of the educational system to alleviate gender violence and combat stereotypes. At the same time, ICTs have become a very important educational tool in a digital society like the one where we live. Around these two topics we conducted this research whose purpose is, from…
Descriptors: Sex Fairness, Sex Stereotypes, Information Technology, Educational Practices
Holmes, Venita R. – Houston Independent School District, 2018
This study hypothesized that HISD prekindergarten participation consistently correlated with better educational outcomes for students. Taking into account students' age differences through kindergarten enrollment, propensity score matching controlled for students' background characteristics. Three cohorts of students in this study were eligible or…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Mathematics Achievement, Reading Achievement, Language Arts
Severns, Maggie – New America Foundation, 2012
In recent years, a boom in immigration and high birth rates among the foreign-born population has led to significant growth in the number of children in the United States who speak a language other than English at home. This demographic change presents a challenge to the public school system, where English proficiency is central to a child's…
Descriptors: Demography, Immigrants, Children, Spanish
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Dhonau, Stephanie, Ed. – Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, 2014
The 2014 Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages took place in St. Louis, Missouri with the cooperation of the Foreign Language Association of Missouri. The 2014 conference focused on ways in which foreign language teachers, "unlock" or help to open up lines of communication between their students and people who…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Cultural Awareness
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Cohen, Lynn E.; Kramer-Vida, Louisa; Frye, Nancy – NHSA Dialog, 2012
Professional development was conducted to assess the effects of dialogic reading (DR) on child outcomes related to vocabulary development in English and Spanish. Six teachers and 72 children enrolled in a state-funded public universal prekindergarten program, partnering with higher education, participated in the study. The content of the…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Higher Education, Preschool Education, Vocabulary Development
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Pareja-Lora, Antonio, Ed.; Calle-Martínez, Cristina, Ed.; Rodríguez-Arancón, Pilar, Ed. – Research-publishing.net, 2016
This volume offers a comprehensive, up-to-date, empirical and methodological view over the new scenarios and environments for language teaching and learning recently emerged (e.g. blended learning, e-learning, ubiquitous learning, social learning, autonomous learning or lifelong learning), and also over some of the new approaches to language…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Telecommunications