Reports findings of an investigation of the effect of teaching behaviors on student reading achievement in Spanish. (FL)

Describes a joint Hanukkah/Id'l Fitter/Christmas celebration to examine Arab-Jewish coeducation aimed at encouraging students to take pride in their cultural heritage while experiencing and respecting others' heritages. Interviews with students, parents, teachers, and administrators indicated that the ritual highlighted alternative social…

Argues that bilingual education in developing countries represents an encouraging facet of efforts to improve primary schooling both quantitatively in terms of participation and qualitatively in terms of learning processes. Using examples from Guinea-Bissau, Niger, Mozambique, and Bolivia, demonstrates advantages of bilingual programming in…

Relationships are explored between elementary school teachers' (N=13) collaborative interactions and implementation of a complex instructional program ("Finding Out/Descubrimiento") in science and mathematics developed for bilingual classrooms. Findings revealed an association between frequency of teacher collaboration and quality of…

Examines instructional interaction in kindergarten, third, and fifth grade classrooms chosen for their academic success with Hispanic students. Looks at instructional discourse and language use. Confirms previous findings about the possibility of successful bilingual instruction. (DE)

Discusses briefly issues related to bilingual education and making English the official United States language. Describes an innovative and successful bilingual education program in a public school district in Oregon. (SR)

Discusses the use of the "portraiture" methodology to study a joint curriculum project between a U.S. and a Puerto Rican bilingual (Spanish-English) elementary school, which focuses on the use of De Orilla a Orilla, an international computer networking project, to arrange collaborative teaching, communicate by electronic mail and…

A study involving three elementary students attending a bilingual-bicultural program for students with deafness found that successful strategies, such as using American Sign Language as the language of instruction, balancing direct and indirect teaching, making translation conceptual rather than literal, and using multimodal information,…

Discusses trilingual primary education, a growing trend in Europe. Develops a typology of trilingual primary education based on three dimensions: (1) the linguistic context in which trilingual education takes place; (2) the linguistic distance between the three language varieties at issue; and (3) the organizational design of the teaching of the…

Describes an inservice project to teach four new strategies to English teachers in Brunei where the teachers themselves were not native speakers of English. Presents a look at the Brunei bilingual school system, learning English in the Brunei bilingual classroom, teaching reading in Brunei's upper primary classrooms, and reasons for inservice…

Describes a new approach to teaching English-as-a-Second-Language to New Mexico elementary school students who have hearing impairments and whose dominant language is American Sign Language (ASL). These students must first acquire ASL as a bridge to learning English. Then, using the bilingual approach, they are able to focus on English literacy.…

Argues that to understand why bilingual support operates as it does in classrooms in the United Kingdom, it has to be seen in the context of the parameters it is allowed by institutionally constructed discourses and classroom routines of mainstream teachers' practice. Suggests that to design effective forms of bilingual support, there is a need to…

This report presents an evaluation of the Transitional Bilingual Education Project (TBEP), an Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title VII-funded project in its third year of operation at P.S. 9 and P.S. 133 in Brooklyn, New York. The project served 128 limited English proficient students, focusing on the provision of structured English and…

This report presents an evaluation of the Excellence and Success through Career Understanding and Enriched Language Activities (Project ESCUELA), an Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title VII-funded project in its second year of operation at five schools in Brooklyn, New York. The project served 415 Spanish-speaking and 178 Yiddish-speaking…

A study is reported which examines the following issues: the linguistic and cultural values that the Chinese community attaches to education and to the processes and outcomes of education; and the nature of the community's involvement with school programs and the degree of match and mismatch between the school and the home culture. Data were…