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"You Don't Speak Spanish in the Cafeteria": An Intersectional Analysis of Language and Social Constructions in a Kindergarten Dual Language Immersion Class
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Martinez Negrette, Giselle – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
Dual language immersion (DLI) programs have emerged in the U.S. as effective ways to bring together language minority and language majority speakers in school settings with the goal of bilingualism and bi-literacy for all. However, the proliferation of these programs has raised concerns regarding issues of inequity and dissimilar power dynamics in…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Bilingual Education, Language Usage, Race
"Bilingual Ways with Words": Children's Identity Enactment and Negotiation in a Dual Language Immersion Class
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Giselle Martinez Negrette – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2024
This qualitative study examines strategies used by children in a kindergarten dual language immersion (DLI) class, when enacting and negotiating intersecting social constructions such as ethnicity, social class, and bilingualism. Drawing on data collected during the 2017-2018 academic year, this paper uses an intersectional lens to describe the…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Immersion Programs, Native Language, Second Language Learning
New Directions in Latino/a/x Histories of Education: Comparative Studies in Race, Language, Law, and Higher Education
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Lozano, Rosina – History of Education Quarterly, 2020
The twenty-first century has seen a surge in scholarship on Latino educational history and a new nonbinary umbrella term, Latinx, that a younger generation prefers. Many of historian Victoria-María MacDonald's astute observations in 2001 presaged the growth of the field. Focus has increased on Spanish-surnamed teachers and discussions have grown…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Educational History, Spanish Speaking, Educational Experience
Austin Independent School District Human Resources Exit Survey: Interim Human Resources Report. DRE Publication #14.28 RBa
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Hutchins, Shaun D. – Online Submission, 2014
In 2013, the Austin Independent School District began administering a voluntary online exit survey to all professional and administrative employees leaving the district. Responses and respondent characteristics are described for 2014. This is a research brief of a full report (published separately). [For the full report, see ED626497.]
Descriptors: School Districts, Surveys, Occupational Mobility, Gender Differences
Dual-Language Education for Low-Income Children: Preliminary Evidence of Benefits for Executive Function
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Esposito, Alena G.; Baker-Ward, Lynne – Bilingual Research Journal, 2013
This investigation is an initial examination of possible enhancement of executive function through a dual-language (50:50) education model. The ethnically diverse, low-income sample of 120 children from Grades K, 2, and 4 consisted of approximately equal numbers of children enrolled in dual-language and traditional classrooms. Dual-language…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Low Income, Executive Function, Elementary School Students
The Influence of Dual Language Education upon the Development of English Reading Skills of Kindergarten through Grade Two Students
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Reynolds, Corey W. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this inductive and quantitative research study is to examine the influence of dual language education upon the development of literacy skills in English proficient kindergarten through grade 2 students. Secondly, this research is purposed to aid in filling the void in the limited way in which educational researchers have examined…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2, Reading Skills