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Gomez, Diane W.; Gujarati, Joan; Heckendorn, Rick – American Secondary Education, 2012
This article highlights the Orbital Experience (OE), a unique experience that explores the affective domains of second language acquisition, including communication in the target language, making interdisciplinary connections, and fostering a community of learners. Through Orbitals, students serve as experts by researching a topic of interest,…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Spanish, High School Students, Second Language Learning
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Rabin, Lisa M. – Foreign Language Annals, 2011
In this article I describe the work of Leonard Covello, a New York City language educator and high school principal of the early 20th century who argued for Italian and Spanish heritage language (HL) preservation in schools. Although Covello promoted standard language Italian and Spanish in the HL classroom, he also encouraged HL students to use…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, High Schools, Italian, Spanish
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Torres-Guzman, Maria E. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2011
In this paper I focus on Read Alouds as a place for exploring the nexus of methodological beliefs and structures, and teachers' stances within a second grade Spanish-English dual-language education setting in New York City. Grounded in sociocultural and semiotic theory, I examined the segment in which the teacher reads from the written text in…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Reading Aloud to Others, Grade 2, English (Second Language)
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Michael, Ali; Andrade, Norma; Bartlett, Lesley – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2007
Using the concept of figured worlds, this article demonstrates how the faculty, staff, and students of Gregorio Luperon High School in New York City figured "success" by prioritizing the students' linguistic and cultural resources. "Success" was constructed specifically through granting Spanish high status, developing positive…
Descriptors: High Schools, Ethnography, Bilingualism, Bilingual Schools
Gonsalves, Susan – District Administration, 2010
Last year, 15 students in the Montpelier (Vermont) High School's Advanced Placement Spanish class paid class-time visits every week to a nearby dairy farm. They interacted with the Mexican laborers by conversing with them in Spanish, having picnics together, and playing cards and soccer. As the students advanced their Spanish verbal skills, they…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Advanced Placement, Spanish
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Menken, Kate; Kleyn, Tatyana – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2010
This study examines a lesser-known population of students, called "long-term English language learners" (LTELLs) in the USA, who now comprise one-third of all English language learners in New York City secondary schools. A major finding from our research, which explores the characteristics and educational needs of this student…
Descriptors: High School Students, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Educational Experience
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Llopis-García, Reyes – International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments, 2012
This paper presents the description of an email Tandem exchange project conducted between 94 intermediate-level students (47 pairs) from Columbia University/Barnard College in New York and Universidad Autonóma de Madrid in Spain during the Fall Semester 2010. There were several goals to this project: to help improve students' writing skills; to…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Electronic Mail, Language Proficiency, Writing Skills
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Callahan, Laura – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2009
This article compares data from service encounters conducted in person and over the telephone in New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area. During the in-person phase, the author and 8 fieldworkers entered businesses and initiated conversations with Latino service providers in Spanish, noting the language of response. The rate of non-reciprocal…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Native Speakers, Service Occupations, Comparative Analysis
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Duursma, Elisabeth; Pan, Barbara A. – Early Child Development and Care, 2011
Most research on parental bookreading has focused on mothers reading to their children. This study examined bookreading practices among approximately 800 fathers and mothers in low-income families. We looked at differences and similarities between families where both parents read frequently compared to families where only mothers read frequently.…
Descriptors: Low Income Groups, Family Environment, Toddlers, Parent Participation
Tepfenhart, Karen L. – Online Submission, 2011
This study attempts to determine which factors students find most influential in their oral participation in a foreign language class and their thoughts on what actions the teacher should take to encourage more oral participation in class. Participants were 38 students in Spanish 1 and 2 at a rural middle school and high school. Students completed…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Student Attitudes, Self Efficacy, Second Languages
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Gabriele, Alison; Troseth, Erika; Martohardjono, Gita; Otheguy, Ricardo – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2009
The study examines emergent literacy skills in a group of young English Language Learners who are dominant in their native language, Spanish. We investigate the relative contribution of syntactic comprehension in the L1 and L2 to the development of emergent reading skills in English. Participants were bilingual kindergarteners from two public…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Emergent Literacy, Reading Skills, Bilingualism
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Jacobson, Peggy; Livert, David – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2010
This study compared the use of English past tense in a group of Spanish-English bilingual children with language impairment (BLI) to younger groups of bilinguals with typical and atypical language development reported in an earlier study. Ten children with BLI enrolled in 3rd-6th grade participated. Children supplied 12 regular, 12 irregular, and…
Descriptors: Verbs, Language Impairments, Monolingualism, Elementary School Students
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Rodriguez, Tracy – High School Journal, 2009
Drawing from a one-year qualitative research study, this article explores the transnational lives and experiences of three young women and their little sisters in New York with close ties to the Dominican Republic. Using ethnographic research methods--life history interviews, focus groups, participant observation, and document analysis, I examine…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Participant Observation, Research Methodology, Focus Groups
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Girbau, Dolors; Schwartz, Richard G. – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2008
We examined the performance of sequential bilingual children with and without Specific Language Impairment (SLI), who had Spanish as an L1 and English as their L2, on an auditory non-word repetition task using Spanish phonotactic patterns. We also analyzed the accuracy with which this task distinguished these children (according to children's and…
Descriptors: Syllables, Phonemes, Mothers, Language Impairments
Sheriff, Stephanie – Teaching Pre K-8, 2007
In this article, the author talks about a dual language program in a New York City public school, "Nuestros Amigos". This program's goal is for the school's African American and Hispanic students to develop proficiency in both English and Spanish as prescribed in New York State and City English Language Arts and Native Language Arts…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Immersion Programs, Language Proficiency, Bilingual Education
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