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Vela, Guadalupe – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this intrinsic case study was to understand the implementation of PBL at a dual language campus on the U.S.-Mexico border (Stake, 2000). Project-based learning in a dual-language setting can meet the demand for all students, especially emergent bilinguals, to receive equal and equitable learning opportunities that promote access to…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Bilingual Education Programs, Bilingual Teachers
Gomez, Manuela Alejandra – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this phenomenological study is to explore the lived experiences of seven Mexican American community college philosophy students in their journeys to becoming philosophers in the U.S.-Mexico border, between El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico. Philosophy is one of the least diverse academic fields in the United…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Geographic Regions, Foreign Countries, Community College Students
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Alvarez, Adriana – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2023
This qualitative study examined the perspectives and experiences of seven focal families from Mexican immigrant backgrounds that participated in collaborative project-based learning in their children's bilingual classroom. Projects centered on children's experiential knowledge, and were created bilingually. Findings indicate that parents perceived…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Immigrants, Active Learning, Student Projects
Laura J. Salazar – ProQuest LLC, 2024
As teacher education programs encourage more candidates to pursue bilingual certification, a need exists to improve the ways that preservice teachers (PSTs) are prepared to teach in bilingual classrooms. Research suggests the importance of preparing PSTs in the area of linguistic ideological clarity. Scholars define ideological clarity as an…
Descriptors: Bilingual Teachers, Hispanic American Students, Minority Serving Institutions, Preservice Teacher Education
Robyn Jodie Edwards – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Research suggests that students' personalized digital English language practices beyond the classroom can support subsequent in-school academic language development (Alm, 2021). The purpose of this study was to understand the out-of-school and in-school language experiences that bilingual Mexican students identified as supporting their English…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Digital Literacy, Language Acquisition, English Language Learners
David Bamat; Sean Vannata; Lindsey Liu; Alyn Turner; Molly Schlesinger – Philadelphia Education Research Consortium, 2023
The School District of Philadelphia (SDP) serves a diverse population of English Learners (ELs) with different ethnic backgrounds, cultural identities, and languages spoken. SDP's population of ELs has grown significantly, from about 12,000 in 2014-15 to nearly 20,000 in 2022-23, an increase of 66%. This community-informed study focuses on English…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Grade 8, Middle School Students, English Language Learners
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Casey, J. Elizabeth; Kuklies, Kimberly; Warner, Chelsea – Texas Journal of Literacy Education, 2022
It is important to build preservice teachers' self-efficacy in working with diverse learners. During summer of 2021, faculty from a mid-sized public university in the southwest took a small group of preservice teachers into central Mexico to provide opportunities in working with diverse learners and/or emergent bilingual students. Although this…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Competencies, Bilingual Students
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Marquez, Gloria Rubio; Colby, Sherri Rae – Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research, 2021
The purpose of the present case study was to explore fourth-grade dual language learners' interactions with culturally relevant children's literature. The present study involved observations of six second- and third-generation immigrant students participating in read-aloud sessions with the teacher reading the text and the students responding…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Culturally Relevant Education, Cultural Awareness, Consciousness Raising
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García-Mateus, Suzanne; Zuniga, Christian Ellen – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
Prior research describes the positive benefits of dual language education as increasing students academic performance in addition to promoting bilingual development. However, these studies have not adequately addressed the tensions that exist in developing Latina/o communities bilingualism. This paper addresses the issue of bilingual development…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Hispanic American Students, Language Usage
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Broxner, Colette I. Despagne – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
The Mexican Nation State has been created upon the Doctrine of Mestizaje which includes one single language, Spanish, and one single identity, the mestizo. This doctrine hides social practices of discrimination (Gómez Izquierdo, 2008). Although multiculturalism in Mexico recognizes diversity and difference, it still perceives them as problems to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Adjustment, Children, Migration Patterns
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Adair, Jennifer Keys; Colegrove, Kiyomi Sánchez-Suzuki; McManus, Molly – Teachers College Record, 2018
Background/Context: Early childhood education in the United States is currently suspended between the belief that young children learn through dynamic experiences in which they are able to create and experiment, and the belief that young children's emerging literacy and math skills require formal instruction and assessments to ensure future…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Early Childhood Education, Immigrants, Primary Education
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Prieto, Linda; Claeys, Lorena; González, Everardo Lara – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2015
This article exposes the ancient "Nepohualtzitzin" as an important contemporary mathematical tool. The design and development of "Nepohualtzitzin" Ethnomathematics Clubs (NECs) in predominantly Latina/o and low-income schools is also presented. NECs provide informal learning opportunities to develop and strengthen cultural…
Descriptors: Clubs, Mathematics Instruction, Hispanic American Students, Low Income Groups
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Araujo, Blanca; de la Piedra, Maria Teresa – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2013
Recent studies have identified multiple forms of capital that Latino students acquire in their homes and communities. Influenced by these studies, this article examines how transnational students of Mexican origin use various forms of their community's cultural wealth as tools to survive situations of violence in Mexico. In this article, we…
Descriptors: Violence, Hispanic American Students, Drug Abuse, Crime
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Sanchez-Garcia, Juan; Hamann, Edmund T.; Zuniga, Victor – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2012
For 5 years, this research team has sought to learn from more than 700 students encountered in Mexican schools, who had previous experience attending schools in the United States. Although this study has used mixed methods, 1 tool--the written survey--has proven particularly valuable as a means to build profiles of such transnational students.…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Spanish Speaking, English, Foreign Countries
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Sayer, Peter – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2013
This article presents an ethnographic study of how bilingual teachers and children use their home language, TexMex, to mediate academic content and standard languages. From the premise that TESOL educators can benefit from a fuller understanding of students' linguistic repertoires, the study describes language practices in a second-grade classroom…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Bilingual Teachers, Bilingual Students, Bilingual Education
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