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Jennifer L. Steele; Johanna Watzinger-Tharp; Robert O. Slater; Gregg Roberts; Karl Bowman – Grantee Submission, 2024
The rising demand for dual-language immersion (DLI) programs, which offer core instruction in two languages from early grades onward, has raised questions about program design and access. We leverage the rapid expansion of DLI schools across the U.S. state of Utah to estimate effects of DLI program availability on the academic achievement of…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Bilingual Education Programs, Educational Benefits, Second Language Learning
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Sung, Ko-Yin – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
This study explored the development of oral narrative retell proficiency among Mandarin Chinese-English dual language immersion (DLI) learners in Utah. The study compared the younger and the older DLI learners' oral narrative retelling production in order to provide information regarding the Mandarin narrative developmental trend of the DLI…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Mandarin Chinese, Immersion Programs, Second Language Learning
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Schnur, Erin; Rubio, Fernando – Language Learning & Technology, 2021
Using the 2.4-million-word written Spanish subsection of the Corpus of Utah Dual Language Immersion, collected from a large-scale standardized writing assessment of K-12 Spanish second language (L2) students, this study focuses on lexical complexity as operationalized by three measures: lexical diversity, lexical density, and lexical…
Descriptors: Spanish, Immersion Programs, Computational Linguistics, Bilingual Education Programs