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Ibarra Johnson, Susana; García, Ofelia – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2023
A Participatory Design Research (PDR) conducted with fifteen Chicana dual language bilingual teachers in New Mexico focused on expanding their understandings of their own translanguaging, so as to transform their concept of biliteracy and design their biliteracy instruction as a site for resistance and transformation of bilingual marginalized…
Descriptors: Bilingual Teachers, Bilingual Education, Hispanic Americans, Spanish
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Johannessen, B. Gloria Guzman; Thorsos, Nilsa; Dickinson, Gail – Education and Society, 2016
This study addresses public universities' policies and practices in the USA (United States of America) with a focus on public bilingual teacher preparation in Spanish-English programs (initial credential licensure and Masters of Education programs with, or without, endorsements). We questioned: "What do bilingual programs look like in public…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Teacher Education Programs, Program Implementation, Spanish
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Musanti, Sandra I.; Celedón-Pattichis, Sylvia – Journal of Multilingual Education Research, 2013
In the current U.S. context, it is relevant to disseminate research that portrays in detail how bilingual teachers create challenging and safe mathematics learning environments for emergent bilinguals. It is critical to identify pedagogical approaches that foster emergent bilinguals' participation in mathematics conversations and discourse…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Teaching Methods, Bilingualism, Language Usage
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Smith, Matthew David; Rodriguez, Arturo – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2011
In this paper we weave lived experiences, those of a bilingual social studies teacher at a middle school in a large city in the Southwestern US, with critical theory/pedagogy and bilingual education. The purpose of this paper is to present an articulation of the practice of critical pedagogy in a bilingual educational context principally under the…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Federal Legislation, Bilingual Education, Urban Areas
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Blum Martinez, Rebecca; Baker, Susan – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2010
Bilingual education in the United States has been a controversial educational practice since its national inception in 1968. The persistent tension over what kinds of educational programs will help bilingual students can be found across and within states. These disagreements ultimately affect bilingual teacher education programs, as they must…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Teacher Education Programs, Bilingual Education, Educational Practices
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Guerrero, Michael D. – Language Testing, 2000
Seventeen states in the United States use Spanish-language proficiency tests to ensure that bilingual education teachers are able to deliver academic instruction in Spanish to school-age students. The unified validity of the Four Skills Exam (FSE), used in New Mexico for nearly 18 years, was evaluated using Messick's framework (1989). (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Proficiency
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Takahashi-Breines, Hinako – Bilingual Research Journal, 2002
An ethnographic study and discourse analysis examined how a third-grade bilingual teacher in a dual-language immersion classroom used her teacher-talk to provide support for her students' learning in sociocultural, linguistic, cognitive, and academic areas. All areas of support were closely interrelated in her teaching, and all were necessary to…
Descriptors: Bilingual Teachers, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Culturally Relevant Education