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Kim, So Jung – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2016
The current study explores how picture books can be used in bilingual classrooms to support more critical understandings of gender stereotypes by preschool children. The research uses a reader-response perspective that stresses the importance of the reader's role in interpreting texts as well as sociocultural theory to analyze the social dynamics…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Bilingual Education, Sex Stereotypes, Gender Issues
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Lund, Emily; Werfel, Krystal L.; Schuele, C. Melanie – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2015
This pilot study compared the phonological awareness skills and vocabulary performance of English monolingual and Spanish-English bilingual children with and without hearing loss. Preschool children with varying degrees of hearing loss (n = 18) and preschool children without hearing loss (n = 19) completed measures of phonological awareness and…
Descriptors: Phonological Awareness, Vocabulary Development, Monolingualism, Bilingual Students
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Alanís, Iliana – Association of Mexican American Educators Journal, 2018
Changing demographics have led to a need for dual language teachers to adjust their pedagogy to best meet the needs of second language learners in dual language programs. However, the development of linguistic and cognitive skills for dual language learners continues to challenge early childhood teachers (Martinez, 2010; García & Kleifgen,…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Learning Activities, Bilingual Education, Preschool Education
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Chua, Shi Min; Rickard Liow, Susan J.; Yeong, Stephanie H. M. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2016
For bilingual children, the results of language and literacy screening tools are often hard to interpret. This leads to late referral for specialized assessment or inappropriate interventions. To facilitate the early identification of reading difficulties in English, we developed a method of screening that is theory-driven yet suitable for…
Descriptors: Spelling, Bilingual Students, Kindergarten, At Risk Students
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Brebner, Chris; McCormack, Paul; Rickard Liow, Susan – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2016
Background: The phonological and morphosyntactic structures of English and Mandarin contrast maximally and an increasing number of bilinguals speak these two languages. Speech and language therapists need to understand bilingual development for children speaking these languages in order reliably to assess and provide intervention for this…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Bilingual Students, Verbs, Morphemes
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Bedore, Lisa M.; Pena, Elizabeth D.; Griffin, Zenzi M.; Hixon, J. Gregory – Journal of Child Language, 2016
This study evaluates the effects of Age of Exposure to English (AoEE) and Current Input/Output on language performance in a cross-sectional sample of Spanish-English bilingual children. First- (N = 586) and third-graders (N = 298) who spanned a wide range of bilingual language experience participated. Parents and teachers provided information…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Grade 3, Language Acquisition
New Mexico Public Education Department, 2020
The Language and Culture Division (LCD) provides accountability with support to districts that serve students participating in Bilingual Multicultural Education Programs (BMEPs) so that all participating students achieve the program goals as outlined by New Mexico statute and administrative code, these are: (1) students become bilingual and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Multicultural Education, Accountability, Bilingual Students
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Shamim, Fauzia; Rashid, Uzma – Journal of Education and Educational Development, 2019
Both Urdu, the national language of Pakistan, and English the official language are widely used for spoken and written communication in different contexts in Pakistan. In education; however, a linguistic divide is evident in the two-stream system of education - mainly referred to as Urdu medium and English medium - according to the dominant…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction, Urdu, Official Languages
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Abraham, Stephanie Lynn – Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research, 2017
This teacher inquiry project explored how I, a non-Spanish speaking teacher at the time, implemented critical, bilingual pedagogies to foster biliteracy development among my fifth-grade students. One, the project showed that students could further their biliteracy by incorporating their funds of knowledge through a family stories writing project.…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Multiple Literacies, Elementary School Students, Grade 5
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Checa-Garcia, Irene – Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research, 2016
This study investigates the preferences for attachment of a relative clause (RC) to a complex noun phrase (NP) of the type: NP1 of NP2, in Spanish-English bilinguals and advanced learners of Spanish. Spanish speakers show a moderate preference for attaching the RC to the first NP, while speakers of English prefer the second NP. Subjects were…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Cues, Form Classes (Languages), Bilingualism
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Durán, Lillian K.; Gorman, Brenda K.; Kohlmeier, Theresa; Callard, Chase – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2016
The purpose of this paper is to describe the components, usability, and feasibility of a new Read it Again-Dual Language curriculum (RIA-DL; Durán et al. n.d.). The RIA-DL is based on the Read it Again-PreK! (Justice and McGinty 2009) and adapted to meet the unique needs of Spanish-English bilingual preschoolers. The curriculum targets…
Descriptors: Feasibility Studies, Usability, Reading Programs, Reading Instruction
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Gamez, Rebeca; Parker, Carolyn A. – Science Education, 2018
This study investigates how two newcomer students, Elena and Martin, identified with and in science within the context of a classroom utilizing a reform-based science curriculum where instruction occurred only in English. Using ethnographic case study methods, we drew from anthropological theories on identity development and sociocultural…
Descriptors: Novices, Elementary School Science, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Students
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Siu, Carrey Tik-Sze; Ho, Connie Suk-Han – Reading Research Quarterly, 2015
The present study examined the roles of different dimensions of syntactic skills in predicting reading comprehension within and across two languages with contrasting structural properties: Chinese and English. A total of 413 young Cantonese-English bilingual students in Hong Kong (202 first graders and 211 third graders) were tested on word order…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Syntax, Language Skills, Sino Tibetan Languages
Schloegel, Micah Roman – ProQuest LLC, 2015
Creating opportunities for students to engage in positive peer interactions is important because these interactions benefit students' motivation to learn, and their social, linguistic, and cognitive development. Peer interactions are particularly important for supporting English language learners' (ELL) because they are often at risk for academic…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Student Experience, Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs
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Grimm, Ryan P.; Solari, Emily J.; Gerber, Michael M. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
This longitudinal study used latent growth curve modeling to investigate English literacy development in a sample of Spanish-speaking language minority students from third through eighth grade. This study also compared the sample's literacy development to the entire population of California students using state standardized test data. Second, this…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Hispanic American Students, Bilingual Students
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