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Early Biliteracy Performance and Cross-Linguistic Transfer of Young Bilingual Learners after Pinyin Learning in a Mandarin-English Two-Way Immersion Dual-Language Program: An Explanatory Sequential Mixed-Method Study
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Manqian Zhao – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The rapid growth of Mandarin Chinese and English dual-language (DL) programs and the differences between these two languages have fostered the need to investigate the early literacy performance of young students in a Mandarin/English DL program. This study used the interactive transfer framework (Chung et al., 2019) to understand the Mandarin and…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Literacy, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Cultural Relevance and Linguistic Flexibility in Literature Discussions with Emergent Bilingual Children
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Clark, Amy – Bilingual Research Journal, 2020
Spanish-English emergent bilingual children's range of sociocultural and linguistic knowledge have typically gone devalued in relation to school literacy curricula. This case study examines how emergent bilingual children in a second grade one-way immersion dual language classroom draw on their prior cultural-experiential knowledge and dynamic…
Descriptors: Spanish, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Literacy Education
The Development of Oral Ability in L2 Spanish by English-Home Language Learners in a TWI Program
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Ruiz-Funes, Marcela T. – Foreign Language Annals, 2020
This study reports on a small-scale, longitudinal investigation on L2 Spanish oral development by English-home language (EHL) learners in an English/Spanish Two-Way Immersion (TWI) program in rural, eastern United States. It examined EHL learners' oral ability in L2 Spanish based on longitudinal assessment data from Kindergarten, Grade 2, and…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Spanish, Native Language, Second Language Learning
Cognitive and Attitudinal Outcomes of an Additive-Bilingual Program.
Bamford, Kathryn W.; Mizokawa, Donald T. – 1989
A study compared language skill development and cultural attitudes of second-grade children taught in an additive-bilingual program setting with those of second-grade children from a monolingual classroom setting. Subjects were 41 second-grade children participating in a Spanish immersion program and 19 children from a regular second-grade…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Awareness
An Evaluation of the English-Ukrainian Bilingual Program: Final Report.
Chapman, Erma – 1982
The extent to which primary school students participating in an English-Ukrainian bilingual program in Manitoba, Canada, were acquiring skills in Ukrainian and English language arts was evaluated for the 1981-1982 school year. This program, which was instituted in 1979, provides half of the instruction in English and half in Ukrainian. Using…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Education Programs, Educational Assessment, English (Second Language)
Evaluation of the Bilingual (English-German) Program, 1982-83.
Edmonton Public School, (Alberta). Instructional Services Div. – 1983
The annual evaluation of an English-German bilingual education program in the Edmonton Public Schools, extending from kindergarten through grade 4 at the time of evaluation, is presented. The current evaluation focuses on grade 2 and 3 achievement in English language arts and mathematics, self-esteem, cognitive development, German language skills,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Cognitive Development, Cultural Education, Elementary Education