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Parental Attitudes and Activism Reshape Educational Language Policies: The Surge of Dual Language Programmes in California
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Montanari, Simona; Fischer, Eva; Aceves, Danielle – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2022
While educational language policies have been shown to have a stronger influence on school-aged children's multilingual outcomes than Family Language Policy, California provides an example of how parental motivation and activism can also have a profound impact on educational language policies. This paper has two goals: first, it provides an…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Activism, Educational Policy, Bilingual Education
The Development of Writing Skills in an Italian-English Two-Way Immersion Program: Evidence from First through Fifth Grade
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Montanari, Simona; Simón-Cereijido, Gabriela; Hartel, Antonella – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2016
This study examines the writing skills of students in grades 1 to 5 of an Italian-English two-way immersion program. Narrative writing samples were collected in both languages and scored for content, organization, grammar, mechanics, vocabulary, text length, and overall total score. The results show that writing skills improved as a function of…
Descriptors: Italian, Second Language Learning, Grammar, Vocabulary Development
A Case Study of Bi-Literacy Development among Children Enrolled in an Italian-English Dual Language Program in Southern California
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Montanari, Simona – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2014
This study examines bi-literacy development among 60 children enrolled in an Italian-English dual language (DL) program in Southern California. Using a variety of measures including (1) oral reading fluency (ORF), (2) accuracy scores, and (3) standardized test for the assessment of reading (STAR) test's estimates of reading ability for English,…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Reading Fluency, Correlation, Italian