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Language Proficiency: Envisioning the Win in the High School Spanish Classroom
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Egnatz, Linda – Hispania, 2017
This current study suggests that future secondary Spanish language teachers must be more like athletic coaches to ensure student success and score a so-called win in the classroom. Teachers must retool and redesign outdated and ineffectual curricula and instructional strategies to improve student performance. Focusing on language proficiency,…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Spanish
Linking Service-Learning Opportunities and Domestic Immersion Experiences in US Latino Communities: A Case Study of the "En Nuestra Lengua" Project
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Tijunelis, Viktorija; Satterfield, Teresa; Benki, Jose R. – Hispania, 2013
We report on the service-learning component of a Spanish-language Saturday school in Ann Arbor, Michigan, for elementary-aged Spanish-language heritage learners and also examine the newly forming Latino community served by this innovative program. The US Spanish-speaking population is growing throughout the country, resulting in greatly increased…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Immigrants
Adelante! The Spanish Immersion Program of the Kansas City, Missouri Schools.
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Garcia, Paul A. – Hispania, 1990
Provides an abbreviated update of a Spanish language program, initiated in Kansas City, Missouri in 1987-88, that was begun in response to a 1986 federal court order mandating the creation of magnet schools for ending segregative practices and beginning elementary school language immersion programs for French, German, and Spanish. (GLR)
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Elementary Education, FLES, High School Students