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Download full textCoulehan, Marissa – Learning Languages, 2020
On day one the author sets up the expectation that her kindergarten Spanish language immersion classroom will be a 100% target language environment. To accomplish this, the author implements several structures, routines, and expectations to maintain the immersion environment. Getting to know the students, modeling appropriate behavior, promoting…
Descriptors: Spanish, Kindergarten, Immersion Programs, Second Language Learning
Direct linkBuckley, Laura; Mancilla-Martinez, Jeannette; Ozdemir, Merve – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2023
Purpose: Emergent bilinguals (EBs) from Spanish-speaking households are a sizable and quickly growing segment of the preschool population in the United States. However, there is limited research on the provision of opportunities for EBs to engage in language-rich classroom discussion, particularly in English-dominant contexts where most EBs attend…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Questioning Techniques, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Sembiante, Sabrina F.; Yeomans-Maldonado, Gloria; Johanson, Megan; Justice, Laura – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: We examined the amount of preschool lead/assistant teachers' English/Spanish language use and relations between quality of teacher-child interactions, and Dual Language Learners' (DLLs) English/Spanish bilingual vocabulary in 31 English-medium Head Start classrooms. Measures in this study included (a) children's conceptual…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Bilingualism, Bilingual Teachers, Teacher Student Relationship
Garrity, Sarah; Guerra, Alison Wishard – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2015
The school-readiness gap for Latino dual language learners in the United States has been well documented, despite a strong research base highlighting effective strategies and practices for supporting their academic success. However, current educational practices reflect the hegemonic discourse that, because the United States is an English-speaking…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Role, Interviews, Experimental Groups
Howes, Carollee, Ed.; Downer, Jason T., Ed.; Pianta, Robert C., Ed. – Brookes Publishing Company, 2011
The school readiness of young dual language learners depends on high-quality preschool programs that meet their needs--but how should schools promote and measure the progress of children learning two languages? Find out what the research says in this authoritative resource, which investigates the experiences of dual language learners in preschool…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Reading Readiness, Low Income, Preschool Education
Bridges, Margaret; McElmurry, Sara – Institute of Human Development (NJ1), 2010
Bilingual education has taken center stage in Illinois with a new education mandate; many public preschools will be required to offer bilingual education to all three- and four-year-olds who do not speak English. Dual-language (DL) classrooms represent one very promising model in bilingual education that is being used to develop these new…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Native Speakers, English (Second Language), Bilingualism
Bjork-Willen, Polly – Applied Linguistics, 2008
This paper examines the turn-by-turn organization of social actions during educational activities at a multilingual preschool in Sweden. Specifically, it focuses on instructional exchanges within two commonplace activities: "sharing time" and "Spanish group". The study builds on earlier research arguing that interactional…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Multilingualism, Preschool Children, Foreign Countries
Jackson, Barbara; Larzelere, Robert; St. Clair, Lisa; Corr, Marcia; Fichter, Carol; Egertson, Harriet – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2006
This study evaluated the effects of "HeadsUp! Reading" (HUR), a professional development literacy workshop series, with and without supplementary mentoring on early childhood educators' (ECEs) practices and its subsequent effect on preschool children's literacy skills. ECEs who served children in high poverty communities participated in a 15-week…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preschool Children, Literacy Education, Emergent Literacy
