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Phillips, Ariadna; Genao, Soribel – Intercultural Education, 2023
This study offers a review of existing research on translanguaging, inclusion, and computational literacies. It assesses existing school statistics and a student opinion survey released by the New York City Department of Education in Spring 2019 to investigate the attitudes and experiences of students at a public secondary school in the South…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Code Switching (Language), Translation, Bilingualism
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Vinagre, Margarita – Research-publishing.net, 2021
The Linguistic Landscape (LL) is a relatively new field which draws from several disciplines such as applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, anthropology, sociology, psychology, and cultural geography. According to Landry and Bourhis (1997),"the language of public road signs, advertising billboards, street names, place names, commercial shop…
Descriptors: Multiple Literacies, Language Planning, Signs, Naming
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Baecher, Laura; Chung, Samantha – Teacher Development, 2020
Teachers who participate in learning and teaching abroad enhance their intercultural competence, develop more globally informed and critical perspectives on education, and improve their foreign language and teaching skills. However, most of the research on teacher study abroad has been conducted with pre-service rather than in-service teachers. To…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Faculty Development, Inservice Teacher Education, Service Learning
Looney, Dennis; Lusin, Natalia – Modern Language Association, 2019
Total enrollments (undergraduate and graduate) in languages other than English dropped by 9.2% between fall 2013 and fall 2016, as reported in the Modern Language Association's twenty-fifth language enrollment census. Despite the overall drop, there were gains in nearly half of all language programs (45.5%) that mitigate somewhat the downward…
Descriptors: Language Enrollment, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Undergraduate Students
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Guerrero, Mario – HOW, 2012
The rapid growth and interest of college students in Computer Mediated Communication and social media have impacted the second language learning and teaching process. This article reports on a pilot project that attempts to analyze the use of Skype as a synchronous communication tool in regard to the attitudes of students in learning a foreign…
Descriptors: Video Technology, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
WYLIE, LAURENCE; AND OTHERS – 1961
BOOKLISTS WERE PREPARED FOR COUNTRIES WHOSE LANGUAGES ARE FREQUENTLY TAUGHT IN THE UNITED STATES. THESE BIBLIOGRAPHIES WERE PREPARED PRIMARILY FOR LANGUAGE TEACHERS, BUT COULD ALSO BE USED BY PERSONS INTERESTED IN THE COUNTRY'S CULTURE. THE MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION (MLA) REQUESTED KNOWLEDGEABLE PERSONS TO SUBMIT LISTS OF RECOMMENDED BOOKS,…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Cultural Awareness, Foreign Culture, French
Hennessey, James J. – 1976
This report presented the final evaluation of a Bilingual-Bicultural Program in a community school in the Bronx, grades one through six. The project was designed to increase the spoken English language comprehension of elementary school age children who were found to be below the 20th percentile on the Language Assessment Battery. Ten educational…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Teachers, Cultural Awareness, Elementary Education
Berney, Tomi D.; Hriskos, Constantine – 1990
The report presents an evaluation of the New York City Harmony in Career Learning and Scholastic System (Project HI-CLASS) based on results from the 1988-89 school year. The project provided support services to 420 Spanish- and Chinese-speaking students of limited English proficiency (LEP). It also proposed to instill pride in and respect for…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Chinese, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Enrichment
Community School District 9, Bronx, NY. – 1980
During the 1979-1980 school year, 700 Hispanic students from grades one through nine in seven schools in the Bronx, New York, participated in the Comprehensive Approach to Bilingual Education Program. The program included an instructional component that emphasized the acquisition of English as a Second Language, Spanish and English reading skills,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Cultural Awareness, Elementary Education
Gunther, Phyllis E. – 1976
This report describes an after school pre-kindergarten program which sought to upgrade the reading and math readiness, and develop English-as-a-second-language skills for 45 pre-kindergarten neighborhood children. Pupils were selected for the program on the basis of family background information and pupils' inability to speak English because of…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Blacks, Cultural Awareness, English (Second Language)
Harrington, Charles C. – 1975
This paper reviews some significant research on ethnic variables as they relate to the process of schooling such as ethnicity and performance. Particular ethnic groups such as Spanish speaking subgroups in New York City, Mexican Americans, blacks, and American Indians are then discussed in order to provide a body of information as well as to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, American Indians, Blacks
Martinez, Ana L.; And Others – 1988
In its second year, Project COM-TECH's (Bilingual Computer- and Technology-Oriented Program) primary goal was to provide two high schools with bilingual individualized instruction, through enrichment, to limited English proficient (LEP) students (222 Spanish-speaking and 96 Haitian Creole/French-speaking) of varying native language proficiency and…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Bilingual Education Programs, Computer Assisted Instruction, Cultural Awareness