Publication Date
In 2025 | 0 |
Since 2024 | 1 |
Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 2 |
Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 3 |
Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 6 |
Descriptor
Immigrants | 15 |
Foreign Countries | 13 |
Spanish | 11 |
English (Second Language) | 6 |
Language Usage | 5 |
Second Language Learning | 5 |
Family Environment | 4 |
Language Maintenance | 4 |
Literacy Education | 4 |
Spanish Speaking | 4 |
Arabic | 3 |
More ▼ |
Source
Author
Klassen, Cecil | 2 |
Ava Becker-Zayas | 1 |
Bernhard, Judith K. | 1 |
Broeder, Peter | 1 |
Burnaby, Barbara | 1 |
Campbell, Monica | 1 |
Carroll, Shawna M. | 1 |
Chen, Xi | 1 |
Cumming, Alister | 1 |
Dole, Robert | 1 |
Drouin, Patrick, Ed. | 1 |
More ▼ |
Publication Type
Reports - Research | 11 |
Journal Articles | 9 |
Collected Works - Proceedings | 2 |
Reports - Descriptive | 2 |
Books | 1 |
Dissertations/Theses -… | 1 |
Education Level
Elementary Education | 2 |
Higher Education | 2 |
Early Childhood Education | 1 |
Grade 4 | 1 |
Grade 5 | 1 |
Grade 6 | 1 |
Grade 7 | 1 |
Intermediate Grades | 1 |
Junior High Schools | 1 |
Middle Schools | 1 |
Postsecondary Education | 1 |
More ▼ |
Audience
Location
Canada | 15 |
United States | 2 |
Cameroon | 1 |
Canada (Toronto) | 1 |
European Union | 1 |
Mexico | 1 |
South Africa | 1 |
Spain (Madrid) | 1 |
Surinam | 1 |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Ava Becker-Zayas – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2024
For decades, language and literacy scholars working within a sociocultural framework have laboured to bring attention to the strengths of marginalized students in an effort to create more inclusive and equitable learning environments (e.g., Cummins, 2000; Dyson, 1997; González et al., 2005; Heath, 1983). While this work has moved the field forward…
Descriptors: Socialization, Bilingual Students, Bilingual Schools, Early Childhood Education
"Language Lives in Our Bodies Not Just in Our Heads": Embodied Reading and Becoming beyond the Molar
Carroll, Shawna M. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2022
This article focuses on one aspect of a literacy research project: how reading and language enable embodied processes that allow for fluidity and becomings outside of the static, molar normative discourse in society and consequently in language education. I explain how one research participant continues becoming outside of white settler-colonial…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Colonialism, Land Settlement, Bilingualism
Serrano-Hidalgo, Erika – BU Journal of Graduate Studies in Education, 2018
This qualitative embedded case study investigated the experiences and perspectives of 16 first-generation Hispanic immigrant parents on heritage language maintenance and bilingual education in the City of Brandon, Manitoba. Erika Serrano-Hidalgo conducted 5 individual face-to-face semistructured interviews followed by three focus group interviews…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Parents, Immigrants, Language Maintenance
Takeuchi, Miwa – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2015
Guided by sociocultural theory and the theory of multiliteracies, learning is perceived as a shifting participation in practices, which is mediated by multiple physical and symbolic tools. Drawing on the situated multiliteracies approach, which integrates these two theories, the purpose of this ethnographic research is to examine the participation…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Mathematics Instruction, Classroom Communication, Teaching Methods
Chen, Xi; Ramirez, Gloria; Luo, Yang C.; Geva, Esther; Ku, Yu-Min – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2012
This study evaluated the impact of two metalinguistic factors, English derivational awareness and English-Spanish cognate awareness, and the impact of two sociocultural factors, maternal education and children's length of residence in Canada, on English Language Learners (ELLs)' vocabulary knowledge. The participants of the study were 89…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Spanish Speaking, Chinese, English (Second Language)
Campbell, Monica – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2007
Latin America's largest university is now seeking students in the United States. Spotting a ripe market and a growing Hispanic population, the National Autonomous University of Mexico is steadily strengthening its foothold in the United States and Canada--one of the first inroads northward by a Latin American university. For decades the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Universities, Student Recruitment
Pedone, Ronald J., Ed. – 1981
The seminar reported on was convened to discuss the findings of a study by Calvin J. Veltman on minority language usage past the first immigrant generation. Veltman discovered that minority languages in the United States are following the patterns of previous immigrant languages: while first generation newcomers speak their native language and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Immigrants, Language Maintenance, Minority Groups
Dole, Robert – 1983
A study of the linguistic interference of nine multilingual immigrants to the Saguenay Peninsula of Quebec province examined three types of interference in their spoken English. They included: (1) interlingual interference from the mother tongue; (2) intralingual intrusion from structures and lexical items from within English in situations and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Foreign Countries, French
Duran, Marcela S. – TESL Talk, 1978
The problems affecting the reception, adjustment, and placement of Spanish-speaking students into the Toronto school system are discussed, and include immigration patterns, Spanish values, and the Latin American school. (Author/HP)
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, English (Second Language), Immigrants, Language Instruction

Klassen, Cecil; Burnaby, Barbara – TESOL Quarterly, 1993
Combining qualitative and quantitative approaches, this article examines the language and literacy needs of immigrants to Canada. A Toronto-based case study portrays a group of Latin American adults and their daily uses of English and Spanish. Literacy needs in both languages are noted, as is the contradiction of government commitment to…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Case Studies, English, English (Second Language)
Klassen, Cecil – 1987
An approach based on sociolinguistic theory is reported that was devised to describe the way written language operates in the different domains that make up the everyday lives of a given group of people. The approach involves the practices that the people use to deal with written language, and the perceptions (uses, beliefs, attitudes) they have…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Educationally Disadvantaged, Foreign Countries

Pacini-Ketchabaw, Veronica; Bernhard, Judith K.; Freire, Marlinda – Bilingual Research Journal, 2001
Extensive interviews examined how school processes influenced home language practices of 45 Latino families in Canada. Parents felt that Spanish maintenance fostered family unity, Latino identity, and professional advancement, but assimilative pressures sometimes caused doubts about openly speaking Spanish at home. Strategies parents used to…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Bilingual Education, Educational Needs, Elementary Secondary Education
Broeder, Peter; Extra, Guus – 1999
Immigrant minority groups and immigrant minority languages in Europe are viewed from three perspectives (demographic, sociolinguistic, and educational) through case studies. The first part, using a demographic approach, includes research on immigrant minority groups in population statistics of both European Union and English-dominant countries…
Descriptors: Arabic, Berber Languages, Case Studies, Chinese

Hart, Doug; Cumming, Alister – 1997
The report details results of a survey of students who had completed Level 3 of the Ontario (Canada) Language Instruction fore Newcomers to Canada (LINC) program. The initial followup study included 103 native speakers of Arabic, 208 speakers of Cantonese, 198 of Polish, 40 of Somali, 155 of Spanish, and 196 of Tamil. Ten from each group except…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Adult Education, Arabic, Chinese
Drouin, Patrick, Ed.; And Others – 1993
Papers from a 1993 conference on linguistics, all in French, include essays on the following: Yoruba morphophonology; literary Arabic morphophonology; grammatical cohesion in Burushaski; phonological and lexical variation in French Canadian dialects, including Acadian; insults in Madrid Spanish; discourse analysis; maintenance of meaning in…
Descriptors: African Languages, American Indians, Arabic, Berber Languages