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Elizabeth Dubberly – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation seeks to illuminate additive significance of the entanglements within a Dual Language Immersion Spanish Science classroom where arts-based pedagogies are employed. Using a theoretical framework that combines Jane Bennett's Vibrant Materialism (2010) and notion of Enchantment (2002) and Gloria Anzaldua's concept of Nepantla…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Immersion Programs, Spanish, Science Education
Min Hyun Oh; Jeannette Mancilla-Martinez; Jin Kyoung Hwang – Grantee Submission, 2023
The unprecedented growth of Spanish-English dual language learners (DLLs) in new destination states (e.g., Georgia, Indiana, South Carolina, Tennessee) calls for better understanding of the relation between their bilingual vocabulary skills and English reading achievement. The current study focused on school-age Spanish-English DLLs (N = 60) in…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Predictor Variables, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students
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Valencia Mazzanti, Cristina; Cardozo-Gaibisso, Lourdes – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2022
This article investigates how young multilingual children's mathematics learning is connected to their language use, lived experiences, contexts, and emotions. To this end, we consider the experiences of children who used both Spanish and English to learn mathematics. We center on two instances of kindergarten children counting and use Systemic…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Language Usage, Spanish, English
Ramon Garner – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this qualitative, interpretive study was to investigate general education K-12 teachers' perceptions of instructional practices and professional development for teaching Spanish as a first language English Language Learners. Specifically, I investigated the instructional practices and professional development experiences of K-12…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods
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Cervantes-Soon, Claudia; Gambrell, James; Kasun, G. Sue; Sun, Wenyang; Freire, Juan A.; Dorner, Lisa M. – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2021
Georgia and North Carolina are part of what some call the New Latinx South, a region where Latinx populations more than doubled recently. Both states have struggled to educate language minoritized students (evidenced by low graduation rates), yet are among the top three states for numbers of dual language (DL) programs in the Southeast. This model…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Language Minorities, Immersion Programs
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Portes, Pedro; Smagorinsky, Peter – English Education, 2010
Portes and Smagorinsky examine the degree to which stable schools and authoritarian instruction accommodate the needs of learners exhibiting difference, with special attention to Spanish-speaking English Language Learners in a Southern setting. They find that the influx of immigrant students in Southern schools lays bare the normative…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Special Needs Students, Second Language Learning, Immigrants
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Lang, William Steve; And Others – Journal of Research in Education, 1992
Compares the performance of similar preschool students on Spanish and English versions of the Lollipop Test: A Diagnostic Screening Test of School Readiness--Revised. Results with samples of 129 rural, 788 disadvantaged, and 148 bilingual children support the construct validity of the instrument and its Spanish form. (SLD)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Black Students, Construct Validity, Cross Cultural Studies
Laberge, Diane, Ed.; And Others – 1992
Papers on French linguistics, most in French, address the following topics: micro structural treatment of regionalisms in three French dictionaries; effects of the use of Quebec French on the intelligibility of synthesized speech; reading comprehension as a constructive process; acoustic markers of the utterance in Quebec French; constraints and…
Descriptors: Basque, Black Dialects, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Consonants