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Torres, Julio – Language Teaching Research, 2023
Task-based research has investigated the learning opportunities (e.g. language related episodes) that emerge during heritage and second language learner interactions during writing tasks. However, to date, it is unknown how these peer interactions involving heritage language learners contribute to written texts. Further, given the rise of social…
Descriptors: Heritage Education, Native Language Instruction, Second Language Instruction, Spanish
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Boyoung Kim; Grant Goodall – Second Language Research, 2024
Recent approaches to the "that"-trace phenomenon in English include syntactic analyses based on the principle of Anti-locality and a sentence production analysis based on the Principle of End Weight. These analyses have many similarities, but they differ in their predictions for second language (L2) speakers. In an Anti-locality…
Descriptors: Syntax, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Alissa Wolters; Young-Suk Kim – Grantee Submission, 2024
Purpose: There is limited research on the writing of young Spanish-English bilinguals and their writing in both languages. In the current study, we addressed whether written syntax features differed by language (English and Spanish) and varied as a function of grade level, English learner status, and instructional program (dual or English…
Descriptors: Written Language, Spanish, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Alissa Patricia Wolters; Young-Suk Grace Kim – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: There is limited research on the writing of young Spanish-English bilinguals and their writing in both languages. In the current study, we addressed whether written syntax features differed by language (English and Spanish) and varied as a function of grade level, English learner status, and instructional program (dual or English…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Written Language, Spanish, English (Second Language)
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Briceño, Allison – Reading Psychology, 2021
This study integrated reading and bilingual theories to examine the reading behaviors of second grade Latinx students in a Dual Language program. It explored how the students' differing language backgrounds (simultaneous bilinguals and sequential bilinguals who had developed Spanish as a home language) might influence their early reading…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Grade 2, Elementary School Students, Bilingual Education Programs
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Hohenstein, Jill – First Language, 2013
This study investigated the motion event language children and their parents engaged in while playing a board game. Children are sensitive to differences in manner and path at infancy, yet adult-like motion event expression appears relatively late in development. While multiple studies have examined how exposure to parent speech generally relates…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Constructivism (Learning), Parents
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Simon-Cereijido, Gabriela; Gutiérrez-Clellen, Vera F. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2014
There has been a growing concern about how best to address the needs of dual language learners with language impairments. Most dual language programmes have been evaluated with children with typical language development (TLD) and as a result, very little is known about the effect of these programmes on children with language disabilities. The…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Language Impairments, Oral Language, Preschool Children
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Rutherford, Marty – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2009
This paper is about a writing and literary translation program called Poetry Inside Out (PIO). Students in the PIO program study poetic form and structure, figurative language, and the fundamentals of literary translation in an extended workshop format. During a typical Poetry Inside Out workshop, participants read, discuss, translate and recite…
Descriptors: Translation, Spanish, English, Syntax
Metcalf, Allan A. – 1979
The English spoken by Spanish-surnamed Americans of the southwestern United States often has a Spanish flavor, even though the speakers may have no competence in Spanish. This Chicano English is discussed in a series of descriptions based on a number of previous studies of regional variations. Each description covers pronunciation, intonation,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Dialect Studies, English, Intonation