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Carla Kekejian; Robert Kraemer; Chelsea Sommer; Molly Mcfadden; Chih-Ching Yeh – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2024
The amount of language input bilingual children receive influences their language acquisition. This three-year quasi-longitudinal study determined the extent home language input influences measures of expressive and receptive English vocabulary among Spanish-English school-age bilingual children. The study also determined whether a relationship…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Family Environment, Educational Environment, Language Usage
Maxwell, Lesli A. – Education Week, 2012
Growing numbers of schools are offering dual-language classes, where teachers split instruction between English and a second language. The numbers of dual-language-immersion programs have been steadily growing in public schools over the past decade or so, rising to more than 2,000 in 2011-12, according to estimates from national experts. That…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Immersion Programs, Bilingual Education, Politics of Education