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Supporting Literacy Development in Two-Way Immersion Classrooms (Grades 3-5)
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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
The Development of Oral Ability in L2 Spanish by English-Home Language Learners in a TWI Program
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Ruiz-Funes, Marcela T. – Foreign Language Annals, 2020
This study reports on a small-scale, longitudinal investigation on L2 Spanish oral development by English-home language (EHL) learners in an English/Spanish Two-Way Immersion (TWI) program in rural, eastern United States. It examined EHL learners' oral ability in L2 Spanish based on longitudinal assessment data from Kindergarten, Grade 2, and…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Spanish, Native Language, Second Language Learning
Learning to Mean in Spanish Writing: A Case Study of a Genre-Based Pedagogy for Standards-Based Writing Instruction
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Troyan, Francis J. – Foreign Language Annals, 2016
This case study reports the results of a genre-based approach, which was used to explicitly teach the touristic landmark description to fourth-grade students of Spanish as a foreign language. The instructional model and unit of instruction were informed by the pedagogies of the Sydney School of Linguistics and an instructional model for…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Case Studies, Spanish, Grade 4