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Nicole Russo-Ponsaran; Ashley Karls; Dennis Sotelo Martinez; Allison Wainer; Sandra Barrueco – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2023
Background: The number of English learner (EL) students has been steadily increasing within the United States and currently includes more than 5M students. The National Education Association (2020) estimated that by 2025, nearly 25% of all learners will be EL students. Curricula, interventions, and assessments for both diagnostic and academic…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Community Involvement, Student Recruitment, Spanish
Excelencia in Education, 2023
"Excelencia in Education" brings to a national audience evidence-based practices situated at higher education institutions and community-based organizations across the country that are intentionally serving Latino students. The 2023 "Examples of Excelencia: What Works for Latino Students in Higher Education" selection committee…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, College Students, Evidence Based Practice, Student Empowerment
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Magro, José L. – Education for Information, 2018
The aim of this article is to shed light on the particularities of language choice (Spanish, English, and hybridity) and identity performance among urban music (UM) affiliated individuals from Hispanic immigrant backgrounds interacting through Instagram. The participants reside in Da DMV, an emic term used to refer to the Washington DC (DC)…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Self Concept, Spanish, English (Second Language)
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Sorenson, Travis – Hispania, 2013
Central America, including El Salvador, has been cited as the least studied of the Spanish-language dialect zones. The paucity of linguistic research extends to the language use of these populations in the United States, including that of Salvadorans who have relocated there. This paper analyzes Salvadorans' utilization of "voseo" and…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Foreign Countries, Spanish, Language Variation
Lenhart, Amanda; Madden, Mary; Smith, Aaron; Purcell, Kristen; Zickuhr, Kathryn; Rainie, Lee – Pew Internet & American Life Project, 2011
Social media use has become so pervasive in the lives of American teens that having a presence on a social network site is almost synonymous with being online. Fully 95% of all teens ages 12-17 are now online and 80% of those online teens are users of social media sites. The authors focused their attention in this research on social network sites…
Descriptors: Altruism, Internet, Citizenship, Social Networks
Spanish Education Development Center, Washington, DC. – 1989
An English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) curriculum is presented that was developed and implemented by the Spanish Education Development (SED) Center in Washington, D.C. SED's ESL program, which offers beginning and intermediate instruction during the day and evening, expands from a traditional survival skills base by incorporating a problem solving…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Community Organizations, Competency Based Education, Curriculum Design