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Kathryn B. Wiseman; Tiana M. Cowan; Lauren Calandruccio; Elizabeth A. Walker; Barbara Rodriguez; Jacob J. Oleson; Ryan W. McCreery; Lori J. Leibold; Emily Buss – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2025
Purpose: This report compares device use in a cohort of Spanish-English bilingual and English monolingual children who are deaf and hard of hearing, including children fitted with traditional hearing aids, cochlear implants (CIs), and/or bone-conduction hearing devices. Method: Participants were 84 Spanish-English bilingual children and 85 English…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Monolingualism, Spanish, English
Ysaaca Axelrod – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
This article examines young children's perceptions and ideas about their emergent bilingualism drawing on data from an ethnographic case study of the language development of a Head Start classroom. The purpose of this study was to examine the language practices of 4-year-olds in a bilingual (Spanish/English) classroom. The findings discussed in…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Language Attitudes, Self Concept, Young Children
Melzi, Gigliana; McWayne, Christine; Prishker, Nydia; Segovia, Julie – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2023
Immigrant families face unique challenges, most notably the active negotiation of two cultures not only at the individual level, but also in the context of family relationships. There is limited research exploring how immigrant caregivers of young children, in particular, experience this cultural negotiation in the context of parenting decisions…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Family Relationship, Child Caregivers, Parenting Styles
Parmegiani, Andrea – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2022
This paper reports on a writing programme I started at Bronx Community College to improve academic success among recently immigrated Spanish-speaking students by linking ESL courses to Spanish academic literacy courses within the framework of a learning community. My reflection begins by articulating the pedagogical rationale for looking beyond…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Writing Instruction, Longitudinal Studies, English (Second Language)
Clark-Whitney, Elysha; Melzi, Gigliana – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2023
Purpose: In light of the importance of preschool oral narrative skills as precursors to literacy, this exploratory study examined expressive language skills among emergent bilingual Latine preschoolers using a naturalistic personal narrative task. To understand the factors that support language use in the personal narrative context for this…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Preschool Children, Expressive Language, Language Skills
Esther J. Calzada; Lalaine Sevillano; Keng-Yen Huang; R. Gabriela Barajas-Gonzalez – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2025
The present study examined Latinx school readiness and 3rd grade student achievement, considering differences based on social categories of gender, race, ethnicity, and home language. The sample included 683 racially diverse children (M[subscript age] = 4.94; SD = 0.57) of Dominican- or Mexican-origin from Spanish-English or Spanish-only…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Hispanic American Students, School Readiness, English Language Learners
Kane, Adrian Taylor – Hispania, 2022
Following several calls in recent scholarship for increased attention to the study of the Central American diaspora in the United States, this article offers readings of Honduran-born author Roberto Quesada's novels "Big Banana" (1999) and "Nunca entres por Miami" (2003). Written in New York City, where he has resided since…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Self Concept, Authors, Immigrants
Coulehan, Marissa – Learning Languages, 2020
On day one the author sets up the expectation that her kindergarten Spanish language immersion classroom will be a 100% target language environment. To accomplish this, the author implements several structures, routines, and expectations to maintain the immersion environment. Getting to know the students, modeling appropriate behavior, promoting…
Descriptors: Spanish, Kindergarten, Immersion Programs, Second Language Learning
Kim, Elisabeth – Journal of School Choice, 2022
Dual Language (DL), a bilingual program has expanded at a rapid rate in New York City. This qualitative study explores choice in three public schools (n = 42) with strand Spanish DL programs to determine the role it plays in middle- and higher-income families' decision making. Factors such as location, pedagogical style, environment, and peer…
Descriptors: Public Schools, School Choice, Bilingual Education Programs, Spanish
Cioè-Peña, María – Teachers College Record, 2021
For decades, educational research has focused on centering the experiences of children of color. From this research arose culturally relevant pedagogies (CRPs) and culturally sustaining pedagogies (CSPs). However, as countless teachers focus on developing more inclusive classroom practices, the cultural needs of parents continue to be ignored. One…
Descriptors: Family School Relationship, Diversity, Students with Disabilities, Culturally Relevant Education
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
Garrison-Fletcher, Leigh; Martohardjono, Gita; Chodorow, Martin – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
Previous research on the development of second language (L2) reading comprehension among adolescents and adults has looked at the relative importance of students' second language (L2) linguistic skills and home language (L1) reading comprehension skills in the development of L2 reading comprehension, with many studies finding a more important role…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Reading Skills, Reading Comprehension, Language Proficiency
Cioè-Peña, María – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2022
When the COVID-19 pandemic triggered shelter-in-place orders and school closures, many turned to remote schooling as a means for delivering vital instruction while observing public health guidelines. However, the swift shift to remote schooling highlighted an area of significant educational inequity across the United States, especially in urban…
Descriptors: Mothers, Spanish Speaking, Immigrants, Bilingual Students
Alfonso Perez – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Translanguaging pedagogy is an instructional approach that promotes the use of multiple languages to dismantle linguistic hierarchies in classrooms and embrace bilingual children's language practices and identities. This dissertation examines how bilingual education teachers enact translanguaging pedagogy in public elementary and middle schools to…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Translation, Code Switching (Language), Bilingualism
Halpin, Emily; Prishker, Nydia; Melzi, Gigliana – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2023
Purpose: The purpose of this study was twofold: (a) to describe how the language diversity (i.e., the within-group variability in dual-language skills) of Latino dual-language learner (DLL) preschoolers was related to their science readiness skills and (b) to describe the importance of language of science instruction for Spanish-dominant children.…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Hispanic Americans, Science Process Skills, Readiness