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Salvatori, Sara; Terrón-Caro, Teresa – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2023
This article examines the integration of skilled Mexican female workers in the Monterrey labor market, and the relationship with the genesis of migratory flows toward the city of Houston. Following this line of investigation, the feminization of Mexican migration toward the US is considered, in part, to be the result of unfavorable conditions…
Descriptors: Females, Employed Women, Skilled Workers, Immigrants
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Mora Vázquez, Alberto; Trejo Guzmán, Nelly Paulina – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2023
The article examines the transnational mobility experienced by two language teachers of Mexican origin, one who migrated to the United States and the other to the UK. Drawing on autobiographies and in-depth interview data, the analysis shows the complex relationship of different factors in shaping how the participants experienced their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Teachers, Mexicans, Faculty Mobility
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
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
Michael Burgess – ProQuest LLC, 2020
"Teacher Recruitment and Retention and the Minority Teacher Shortage among Latinx Teachers in the United States and Mexico" uses both quantitative and qualitative analysis to examine Latinx teacher retention in Mexico and the United States. The first article "Teacher Attrition and Job Dissatisfaction in Mexico: Why Do Mexican…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Minority Group Teachers, Latin Americans, Teacher Persistence
Gabriela M. Dolsa – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Dual language (DL) education has been regarded as a means toward equity and social justice for linguistic minorities. Several studies, however, question if DL programs can, in fact, overcome inequities in the education of emergent bilinguals. This ethnographic study followed these inquiries and explored how translanguaging theory and pedagogy…
Descriptors: Translation, Code Switching (Language), Bilingualism, Ethnography
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Degollado, Enrique David – Journal of Literacy Research, 2023
Drawing on life stories and classroom observations, this qualitative study examined how six bilingual maestras enacted and embodied critical biliteracies through bilanguaging love. These maestras were born, raised, and now teach bilingual education on the Texas-Mexico border. Their stories revealed contradictory and complex beliefs about literacy…
Descriptors: Literacy, Bilingualism, Bilingual Education, Epistemology
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Martínez-Prieto, David; Lindahl, Kristen – TESOL Journal, 2020
Based on Bordieuan concepts of symbolic power and legitimization, this study analyzes the identity of a language teacher in Puebla, Mexico. Through a series of in-depth interviews, we examine how Mexican institutions may (de)legitimize the teaching expertise of an EFL educator by promoting a discourse of "native"-speakerism. In contrast…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Professional Identity, Language Teachers
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Ostorga, Alcione N.; Farruggio, Peter – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2020
Language policies in the U.S., including matters relating to bilingual education, are tangled up with political tensions and ideology. All too often, the dialogue among educators and policymakers about what constitutes best practices for people learning English -- for whom we will use the term emergent bilinguals (EBs) (Garcia, Kleifgen and Falchi…
Descriptors: Bilingual Teachers, Bilingual Education, Teacher Education Programs, Political Issues
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Lindahl, Kristen; Hansen-Thomas, Holly; Baecher, Laura; Stewart, Mary Amanda – TESL-EJ, 2020
This article describes the ways in which study abroad experiences in international settings may help language teachers develop linguistic and cultural consciousness that ideally influence pedagogical practices in their home teaching contexts. Drawing upon the framework of critical multilingual awareness (CMLA; García, 2017), we describe three…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, English Teachers, Second Language Instruction, Multilingualism
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Garza, Armando – NABE Journal of Research and Practice, 2019
Using community cultural wealth as an overarching theoretical lens and validation theory interconnected with language and identity frameworks, this paper describes the educational trajectories of Latinx bilingual pre- and in-service teachers in the borderlands. This study explores how its participants experienced struggles and resilience while…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Bilingual Teachers, Hispanic Americans, Preservice Teachers
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Chavarría, Romali Rosales – Journal of Montessori Research, 2021
This work reports, from a qualitative research perspective, the development of an English Corner project for a preschool Children's House classroom in central Mexico over the course of a 3-year period. It shows the transition of a language specialist over six consecutive periods of work, from a traditional understanding and practice of teaching…
Descriptors: Montessori Method, Teaching Methods, Bilingualism, Second Language Learning
Munoz Cantu, Luisa Margarita – ProQuest LLC, 2019
From a sociocultural perspective, identity is understood as constructed through active negotiations with others (Gee, 2006; Lantolf, 2009). Language constitutes a mediation tool used to create meanings in new social and cultural contexts as individuals become members of new communities of practice (CoP). In doing so, an ongoing process of sharing…
Descriptors: Bilingual Teachers, Professional Identity, Sociocultural Patterns, Teaching Methods
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Alvarez, Miguel Agustín – Association of Mexican American Educators Journal, 2016
The following reflective essay describes the literal journey of an undocumented immigrant who left his family in Jalisco, Mexico, as a teenager and eventually became a bilingual educator who earned two master's degrees and a Ph.D. in the United States. Within this narrative, the author not only describes the challenges in crossing into the U.S.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undocumented Immigrants, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Teachers
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Rubio, Brenda; Palmer, Deborah K.; Martínez, Manuel – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2021
Currently, there is limited research examining the barriers that immigrant professionals experience when becoming a bilingual teacher in the United States. This study examines the trajectory of a Mexican national, trained as a teacher in his home country, who became a bilingual dual-language educator in a Central Texas school district. Drawing on…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Language Maintenance, Masters Programs, Personal Narratives
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