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Pennington, Julie L.; Brock, Cynthia H.; Salas, Rachel G.; Gavelek, James R. – Urban Education, 2023
Countries are seeing a rise in the number of families and schoolchildren who do not speak English as a first language. This study focuses on how two White monolingual English-speaking elementary teachers positioned language as it related to their Spanish-speaking students within a graduate teacher education program in the United States. Our work…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, White Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Language Usage
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Vaish, Viniti – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2019
This paper is about implementing a translanguaging approach to teach reading skills in English with simultaneous bilinguals who speak substantial amounts of Malay and Chinese at home. This new pedagogical approach was tried out with 2nd graders in 3 schools in Singapore: instead of the typical immersion approach to teaching reading skills in…
Descriptors: Grammar, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Arias, M. Beatriz, Ed.; Fee, Molly, Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2018
In the last 20 years dual language education programs have increased in number and expanded in range. Whereas once they were predominantly focused at the elementary level, they now span from pre-K through to high school. This book examines the key attributes of successful dual language programs, as well as the challenges and opportunities involved…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Second Language Learning, Profiles, Educational Objectives
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Heining-Boynton, Audrey L. – Hispania, 2017
This essay offers a candid overview of the past one hundred years of preK-fifth grade Spanish language teaching and learning in the United States. Among the topics addressed are numbers of programs, program models, and factors that impact the success of learners and programs.
Descriptors: Educational History, Kindergarten, Elementary School Students, Teaching Methods
Sun, Valerie – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Dual-language immersion is an educational practice in which "literacy and content instruction" is provided in two languages at school (Howard et al., 2007, p.1). The students in these programs have been the center of many studies including student literacy development (Genesee & Jared, 2008), academic achievement (Lindholm-Leary,…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Literacy, Bilingual Education, Educational Policy