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Direct linkDorner, Lisa M.; Cervantes-Soon, Claudia G.; Heiman, Daniel; Palmer, Deborah – Language Policy, 2021
Bilingual education as a whole has been gentrifying, as more privileged students replace Transnational Language Learners (TLLs) in bilingual education spaces and policies (Valdez et al. in Educ Policy 30(6):849-883, 2016. https://bibliotheek.ehb.be:2102/10.1177/0895904814556750). We argue this is an extension of coloniality (Mignolo in Local histories/global…
Descriptors: Advantaged, Foreign Policy, Bilingual Education Programs, Second Language Learning
Nuñez, Idalia; Palmer, Deborah – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2017
This article presents a basic interpretive qualitative study that examined how two students, a dominant Spanish speaker (Joel) and a dominant English speaker (Carter) used languages during their microinteractions in pair work in a dual language kindergarten classroom. The purpose of this study was to understand the relationship between language…
Descriptors: Spanish Speaking, English, Discourse Analysis, Qualitative Research
Caldas, Blanca; Palmer, Deborah; Schwedhelm, María – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2019
This case study examines the pedagogical measures taken for Spanish development for a group of bilingual preservice teachers in a university-based teacher education program in Texas. Classroom language policies were developed collaboratively and deliberately throughout the semester, which included discussion and negotiation between instructor and…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Bilingual Teachers, Code Switching (Language), Spanish
Fitzsimmons-Doolan, Shannon; Palmer, Deborah; Henderson, Kathryn – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2017
Dual language bilingual education (DLBE) programs are framed to reflect pluralist discourses (de Jong, E. [2013]. "Policy Discourses and U.S. Language in Education Policies." "Peabody Journal of Education" 88 (1): 98-111) and affiliated language ideologies. The continued expansion of DLBE programs not surprisingly brings to…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Bilingual Education Programs, Qualitative Research, English (Second Language)
Palmer, Deborah; Henderson, Kathryn; Wall, Dorothy; Zúñiga, Christian E.; Berthelsen, Stefan – Language Policy, 2016
This article documents and interrogates top-down district-wide implementation of a two-way dual language bilingual education (DLBE) program in a large urban district. We carried out a language policy ethnography to explore the way two schools' teams of third grade teachers worked together to negotiate the intersection of DLBE implementation and…
Descriptors: Team Teaching, Language Planning, Teacher Collaboration, Faculty Development
Download full textMenard-Warwick, Julia; Palmer, Deborah – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2012
In 2007, eleven diverse undergraduate students from Texas spent a month in Mexico on a study-abroad program sponsored by the School of Education at their university. A central goal of the program was to facilitate pre-service teachers' ability to articulate a critical understanding of the needs of second language (L2) learners in their future…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Field Trips, Undergraduate Students, Family Life
Palmer, Deborah; Lynch, Anissa Wicktor – Language Policy, 2008
A tension exists for teachers in Texas bilingual third and fifth grade classrooms between state and local bilingual education policy, which encourages them to transition students gradually from Spanish into English instruction while providing bilingual support; and state and federal accountability policy, which requires them to choose a single…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Language of Instruction, Monolingualism, Elementary School Students
