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Download full textStraubhaar, Rolf – Berkeley Review of Education, 2021
Ideologies regarding what is "good" teaching undergird common teaching practices and pedagogical decisions, which may support and/or run counter to the broader policy environment in which they occur (Gibson, 1998). Drawing from a six-month ethnography of 10th-grade newcomer students from Mexico and their teachers in a Central Texas…
Descriptors: Accountability, Language of Instruction, Teaching Methods, Ethnography
Mendez, Julia D. Trevino; Slate, John R.; Martinez-Garcia, Cynthia – Athens Journal of Education, 2017
In this investigation, the relationship between bilingual education program type (i.e., dual language programs or exit programs) and English Language Learner reading and mathematics test scores was examined. Data were obtained on English Language Learners who were enrolled in Grades 3, 4, 5, and 6 in Texas public schools for the 2008-2009,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Program Descriptions, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Direct linkHenderson, Kathryn I.; Palmer, Deborah K. – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2015
This article provides an in-depth exploration of the language ecologies of two classrooms attempting to implement a two-way dual language (TWDL) program and its mediating conditions. Drawing on ethnographic methods and a sociocultural understanding of language, we examined both teachers' and students' language ideologies and language practices,…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Ideology, Educational Practices, Grade 3
Lozano, Leticia I. – Association of Mexican American Educators Journal, 2014
It is essential for teachers to provide a setting where student interaction is fostered as a mediational tool for learning, thus expediting the natural transfer of language and knowledge among students (Cummins, 1979). Doing so provides students a way of learning in an additive environment (Soltero, 2004). Could such a classroom have the potential…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Bilingual Education, Spanish Speaking, English Language Learners
Menke, Mandy R. – Hispania, 2015
Language immersion students' lexical, syntactic, and pragmatic competencies are well documented, yet their phonological skill has remained relatively unexplored. This study investigates the Spanish vowel productions of a cross-sectional sample of 35 one-way Spanish immersion students. Learner productions were analyzed acoustically and compared to…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Vowels, Elementary School Students, Spanish
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
Branum-Martin, Lee; Mehta, Paras D.; Carlson, Coleen D.; Francis, David J.; Foorman, Barbara R. – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2012
There are many types of programs for Spanish speaking students in the US, with varying methods and goals. Some preliminary work suggests that bilingual classrooms may differ widely in instruction, even under the same program labels. However, there are few studies which have compared the extent to which various bilingual program models differ in…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Immersion Programs, Spanish Speaking, Educational Practices
Lopez, Minda Morren – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2012
This study explores the language ideologies of young children in a Spanish/English dual language programme in the USA. Recent studies of language ideologies in education have centred primarily on adults or older students, but this study focuses on young children from varied language backgrounds. By analysing discussions centred on children's…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Language Attitudes, Ideology, Young Children
Branum-Martin, Lee; Foorman, Barbara R.; Francis, David J.; Mehta, Paras D. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2010
This study of 1,338 Spanish-speaking 1st graders examined contextual effects of bilingual programs on reading comprehension and the effect of language of instruction within these contexts. The study included 128 classrooms in 32 schools located in border Texas and in urban Texas and California. These classrooms used either English immersion or…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Immersion Programs, Beginning Reading, Language of Instruction
Alanis, Iliana; Rodriguez, Mariela A. – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2008
The promise of dual language education has spurred a movement in the field of bilingual education to shift from remedial programs to enrichment forms of bilingual education. Although research supports the effectiveness of such programs, many programs do not maintain their level of implementation and quickly revert to their original remedial form.…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Remedial Programs, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Teachers
Lara-Alecio, Rafael; Galloway, Martha; Irby, Beverly J.; Rodriguez, Linda; Gomez, Leo – Bilingual Research Journal, 2004
This article summarizes the results from the first statewide study of two-way immersion (TWI) programs for English language learners. The survey was conducted electronically with 304 Texas bilingual/English as a Second Language directors in districts that serve English language learners. Data are reported for the following research question: What…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Bilingual Education Programs, Immersion Programs, English (Second Language)
Christian, Donna; Mahrer, Cindy – 1992
The information on two-way bilingual programs presented in this volume was gathered as the first phase of a study for the National Center for Research on Cultural Diversity and Second Language Learning. Two-way bilingual programs integrate language minority and language majority students and provide instruction in and through two languages. This…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Bilingual Instructional Materials, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
