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Kilinc, Sultan; Alvarado, Sarah – Bilingual Research Journal, 2021
This paper explores how two dual language preschool teachers demonstrated critical consciousness in their dual language education (DLE) classroom in Arizona. DLE has historically been grounded in equity for language minoritized students and promises to support students' bilingualism, biliteracy, sociocultural competence, and academic achievement.…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Teacher Role, Grounded Theory, Social Justice
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Adair, Jennifer Keys – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2014
This article examines whiteness at the intersection of immigration and early childhood education as it was made visible during interviews with 50 preschool teachers in five US cities as part of the Children Crossing Borders (CCB) study. Findings show whiteness acting not only as a construct of privilege but also as an idea that manifests itself in…
Descriptors: Whites, Immigration, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers
Lawton, Stephen B. – Online Submission, 2009
The Arizona English-Language Learner Assessment (AZELLA) is the backbone of Arizona's new English-language learner (ELL) policy in that it is used to assess students' English-language proficiency in order to place them into groups for English-language instruction and to determine when they have become proficient in English. This paper evaluates a…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Item Response Theory, Language Proficiency, Scaling