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Enablers and Barriers for Plurilingual Practices: How EAL/D Teachers Support New Arrivals in a Rural Secondary Setting
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David Partridge; Helen Harper – TESOL in Context, 2023
This paper explores the reported practices of five specialist EAL/D teachers from a rural Australian town. They work with a cohort of refugee students from a single cultural group, who recently arrived in Australia with minimal English and with generally low levels of literacy in their first language. A questionnaire and semi-structured interview…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Schools, Secondary School Teachers, Language Teachers
The Pivotal and Peripheral Roles of Bilingual Classroom Assistants at a Swedish Elementary School
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Thorstensson Dávila, Liv – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2018
This article presents a qualitative study of how the individual roles and ideologies of four Arabic and Somali bilingual classroom assistants at an elementary school in Sweden both mirror and challenge larger discourses about language, education and social integration. Data were analyzed using the theoretical constructs of positioning and reveal…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Decision Making, Role Models, Bilingualism
Elementary and Middle School Teacher Efficacy When Instructing English Language Learners
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Conahan, Jeanne Shober – ProQuest LLC, 2018
As the population of English Learners (ELs) continues to rise in the United States, there is a need to investigate the efficacy of teachers who are assigned to instruct them. The purpose of this study was to examine the factors that contribute to teacher efficacy when mainstream elementary/middle school teachers instruct ELs while addressing the…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Elementary School Teachers, Middle School Teachers, School Districts
Bilingual Schooling in the United States.
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Andersson, Theodore; Boyer, Mildred – 1970
This two-volume monograph on bilingualism, a "major, virtually untapped national resource," is based on three extensive field trips to current bilingual programs: (1) in the Northwest as far north as Barrow, Alaska; (2) the Southwest and Hawaii; and (3) from Dade County, Florida, north through Washington, New York, New England, and into Canada. In…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Schools, Bilingual Students
IMPERATIVES FOR CHANGE, NEW YORK STATE EDUCATION CONFERENCE ON COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY PROGRAMS FOR TEACHERS OF THE DISADVANTAGED (YESHIVA UNIVERSITY, APRIL 10-11, 1967).
JABLONSKY, ADELAIDE; AND OTHERS – 1967
THESE PROCEEDINGS REPORT 19 DISCUSSION DEBATES, EACH REPRESENTED BY A NUMBER OF PAPERS IN FOUR MAJOR AREAS--(1) CONCERN FOR ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOR (ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITMENT, COOPERATIVE COLLEGE-SCHOOL SYSTEM EFFORTS, CULTURE SHOCK, STAFF AND STUDENT ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOR, AND SENSITIVITY TRAINING), (2) CONCERN FOR PEOPLE (TEACHING ETHNIC GROUPS,…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Bilingualism, College School Cooperation, Community Involvement
IMPERATIVES FOR CHANGE, PROCEEDINGS OF THE NEW YORK STATE EDUCATION CONFERENCE ON COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY PROGRAMS FOR TEACHERS OF THE DISADVANTAGED (YESHIVA UNIVERSITY, APRIL 10-11, 1967).
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JABLONSKY, ADELAIDE; AND OTHERS – 1967
THESE PROCEEDINGS REPORT 19 DISCUSSION DEBATES, EACH REPRESENTED BY A NUMBER OF PAPERS IN FOUR MAJOR AREAS--(1) CONCERN FOR ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOR (ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITMENT, COOPERATIVE COLLEGE-SCHOOL SYSTEM EFFORTS, CULTURE SHOCK, STAFF AND STUDENT ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOR, AND SENSITIVITY TRAINING), (2) CONCERN FOR PEOPLE (TEACHING ETHNIC GROUPS,…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Bilingualism, College School Cooperation, Community Involvement