Recent research on second language and subject-matter learning calls for moving away from hegemonic monolingual education in U.S. schools and instead making "translanguaging" the norm by supporting bi/multilingual students to use their full linguistic repertoires as they participate in classroom learning (Garcia, Johnson, & Seltzer,…

In this two-year ethnographic study, we explored engineering teaching and learning in fourth-grade, dual language (DL) classrooms. We discuss the biliterate disciplinary practices in these classrooms, examining data (field notes, interviews, artifacts, audio, and video recordings) gathered at a school on the US-Mexico border. Our purpose is to…

The purpose of this qualitative study was to determine teachers' perceptions about struggling readers who do not qualify for special services, their perceptions of these students' ability to learn to read, and their perceptions of their ability to instruct these students in their general education classrooms. Participants for this study were eight…