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Direct linkVega, Desireé; Plotts, Cynthia – School Psychology International, 2020
This exploratory study investigated the experiences of seven bilingual school psychology graduate students' participation in a two-week cultural immersion experience at the Texas-Mexico border. Findings revealed five significant themes related to their experience: (1) pushed out of comfort zone, (2) bonding with peers, (3) language, culture, and…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Bilingualism, Peer Relationship, Graduate Students
García-Mateus, Suzanne – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2023
The two-way immersion dual language education program design includes the use of language labels to identify students as either the English speaker or the speaker of a language other than English. This paper examines four focal student and two teacher interviews to consider the ways in which the idea of a 'language expert' transpired during…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Bilingual Education Programs, English (Second Language), Native Language
Straubhaar, Rolf – High School Journal, 2013
Expanding upon Yosso's theory of "community cultural wealth," this interview-based qualitative study finds that Mexican youth in an urban two-year English immersion high school here referred to as Literacy High are assisted academically by what Yosso would call their "aspirational capital" and what the present article theorizes…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Language Proficiency, Spanish, English (Second Language)
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
Download full textLopez, Francesca – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2010
Perception of scholastic competence, perception of educational opportunities, motivation, and acculturative stress are student level variables that have been established in the relevant literature as predicting academic achievement. This study examined the degree to which those variables accurately predict student group membership in two districts…
Descriptors: Group Membership, Student Attitudes, Bilingual Education, Academic Achievement
Garcia, Maripaz – Online Submission, 2004
Background: Integrating reading in foreign language (FL) classes is sometimes a difficult task because of lack of appropriate methodology and poor textbook support. In addition, college students find many readings too difficult to understand or not interesting. Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate how a teacher-researcher…
Descriptors: Teaching Experience, Teaching Methods, Reading Instruction, Reading Strategies
