The study determined that parents from bilingual and culturally diverse environments could be trained by bilingual educators to enhance attitudes toward reading and reading-related behaviors of their primary level children. (Author/NQ)

Discusses anecdotal and research evidence that successful bilinguals have different grammatical and communicative representations of their second languages and that native speakers do not respond best to non-natives' use of native speaker forms. (Author/BK)

In a case involving language proficiency testing of credentialed and tenured bilingual and ESL teachers, the New Jersey Education Association challenged the Educational Testing Service (ETS) on the grounds that the tests were unfair, unreliable, and poorly administered. NJEA succeeded in requiring ETS to disclose these tests to the court. (SJL)

Discusses issues of qualitative research stimulated by Eileen Waldschmidt's work on bilingual teachers and creative drama including issues of the researcher's stance, primacy of voice, and thickness of data. (SR)

Responds to jurors' comments and questions regarding the author's study on bilingual teachers and creative drama. Argues that she did write four teacher stories, but questions whether they hold up to criteria often used to evaluate stories. Asks just whose story is being told in qualitative research. (SR)

This study analyzed the production of voice onset time (VOT) for /p, t, k/ in Japanese and English by English-speaking children (n = 15) in a Japanese immersion program. The immersion children produced Japanese voiceless stops with significantly longer VOT values than the monolingual Japanese children and the immersion teachers, but they produced…

In this article, the author examines her racial identity and its impact on her interpretation of the schooling experiences of a 10th grade Latina in an ethnographic case study. Prior to this study, the author had been working in a university-based family literacy program where she met Zulmy's mother, Manuela. Due to her experience as a middle…

This mixed methods study examined the self-efficacy beliefs of paraeducators who became bilingual teachers and paraeducators who did not explore the possibility that self-efficacy plays a role in paraeducators' career decisions. Data were collected through three sources: a survey, career goal statements, and interviews. Fourteen participants were…

California and the rest of the United Sates are undergoing significant challenges in providing educational opportunities for an increasingly diverse population. These challenges include inadequate literacy and numeracy skills among large segments of the student and adult populations; an ongoing shift in the demographic profile of the population,…

Preservice teachers from a Hispanic-serving university and Latino families reflected on their interactions during an after-school children's tutoring program conducted at an elementary school. This paper focuses on issues that both preservice teachers and families found important to communication and relationship building. These issues were…

The teacher training program in bilingual special education at George Mason University (Virginia) trains bilingual special education teachers alongside their regular and special education couterparts. The program produces special education teachers conversant in bilingual issues and bilingual special educators specifically skilled in second…

Teachers were surveyed for their opinions of Signed English and American Sign Language. Of the 85 responses, most felt that deaf children should begin signing as early as possible, use Signed English as their base language, and eventually be bilingual in the sign languages. It was also felt that teachers should be bilingual. (MSE)

The major structural barriers to increasing Hispanic educational access and an analysis of the policy implications of these barriers are articulated. Bilingual teacher training, dropout prevention, maintenance of categorical programs, high school to college transition, and the honoring of federal Hispanic initiatives strategies are recommended to…

Presents contemporary positions on cognitive learning styles, provides a brief description of 12 cognitive learning styles and of recent research studies, offers criterion statements for consideration in reviewing research studies on cognitive learning styles, and offers suggestions for teachers concerning cognitive learning styles. (Author/CM)

A test measuring the teachers' Spanish proficiency was developed as part of a battery of tests for teachers in bilingual education programs--the CERAS Teacher Tests for Spanish/English Bilingual Education. Two independent studies indicated that the relationship between pupils' achievement in Spanish and English and their teachers' Spanish…