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Pablo Antonio Archila; Carlos Forero; Anne-Marie Truscott de Mejía; Silvia Restrepo – International Journal of Science Education, 2024
The internationalisation of higher education as well as the emergence of evidence for the claim that bi/multilingualism in science should be the norm, not just an option, are conditions that explain the rise in university bilingual science courses. Thus far, however, little is known about how to foster bilingual scientific argumentation in this…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Electronic Publishing, Information Dissemination, Science Process Skills
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Christian Fallas-Escobar – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2024
This article examines the ways Latino/a bilingual teacher candidates (TCs) talk about their own and others' language practices and the ways this talk reflects and reproduces racialized notions of bilingualism. Drawing on data from a one-year critical ethnography at a Hispanic-serving institution in Southwest Texas, this article demonstrates that…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Language Usage
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Ivan D. Mardini G.; Christian G. Quintero M.; César A. Viloria N.; Winston S. Percybrooks B.; Heydy S. Robles N.; Karen Villalba R. – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Today reading comprehension is considered an essential skill in modern life, therefore, higher education students require more specific skills to understand, interpret and evaluate texts effectively. Short answer questions (SAQs) are one of the relevant and proper tools for assessing reading comprehension skills. Unlike multiple-choice questions,…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Learning Strategies, Grading
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Joe Terantino – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2024
This research article examines the accuracy of using Google Translate as a means to offer native language, e-mail communication between teachers and parents of Latino English Language Learners (ELLs). To this end, an elementary teacher's e-mail message was translated by Google Translate and certified translators and then evaluated and compared…
Descriptors: Translation, Hispanic American Students, Hispanic Americans, English Language Learners
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Michael Mora-Rodriguez – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2024
In today's global world, many people can move across borders as travelling has become much easier in many ways. However, the securitization of borders has not been relaxed, implying that multilingual police-civilian interactions are becoming more 'commonplace'. Within the framework of conversation analysis, this article presents a novel study on…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, National Security, Police, Second Languages
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Debra A. Giambo; Tunde Szecsi; Hasan Aydin – Educational Forum, 2024
This qualitative phenomenological study explores teachers' and bilingual adolescents' views about heritage language (HL) maintenance and bilingualism. Interviews with twelve teachers and twelve students revealed limited value for bilingualism. English dominance overshadowed the importance of bilingualism and HL maintenance. Findings reveal the…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Native Language, Language Maintenance, English (Second Language)
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Piotr Romanowski – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
Multilingualism does not enhance further language learning in learners if they are not supported by the school environment. Learning L3, L4 or Ln is attained best when language users take advantage and are aware of the existence of their overall linguistic knowledge. It is the teacher whose understanding and beliefs about multilingual pedagogies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Multilingualism, Language Teachers
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Xiaotong Xi; Peng Li; Pilar Prieto – Language Learning, 2024
This study investigates whether audiovisual phonetic training with hand gestures encoding visible or nonvisible articulation features has a differential impact on learning second language sounds. Ninety-nine Catalan-Spanish bilingual students were trained to differentiate English /ae/ and /[lambda]/, which differ in the visible lip aperture and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Vowels, Nonverbal Communication, Articulation (Speech)
Amy Esther Kuiken – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The cybersecurity landscape in the United States has rapidly evolved, marked by risk and novel threats (Georgescu, 2021; Siraj et al., 2021). Today, security mindsets are "widely accepted in the computer security community as … essential … for successful cybersecurity practice" (Peterson, 2021, para. 1), valuable to aspiring…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Information Security, Computer Security
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Alex Hidalgo – History Teacher, 2024
In the early modern era, Spanish missionaries, cosmographers, chroniclers, and physicians wrote major studies on botany, ethnography, navigation, Indigenous languages, war, and history, aided by capable, though often reluctant, Indigenous informants. They penned this rich body of scholarship using iron gall ink -- a mixture of tannins, sulfates,…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Experiential Learning, Assignments, Undergraduate Students
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Nadxieli Toledo Bustamante – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2024
This article examines caregivers' everyday language choices and interactions with children in an urban Zapotec community in Mexico, where Diidxazá is being displaced by Spanish in everyday use. It argues that caregivers' language choices and interactions get entangled in complex ways with the socio-cultural organization of everyday life and with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Urban Areas, Child Caregivers
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Klauda, Susan Lutz; Taboada Barber, Ana; McAllen, Elizabeth B. – Reading Psychology, 2020
Employing a mixed methods approach, this study examined the reading motivations of dual language learners (DLLs) in Grades 3-5 in a suburban Title I school in which the student population was predominantly Hispanic. Twenty-one students completed self-report surveys and participated in interviews focused on two intrinsic motivations (involvement…
Descriptors: Reading Motivation, Bilingual Students, Elementary School Students, Hispanic American Students
Klauda, Susan Lutz; Taboada Barber, Ana; McAllen, Elizabeth B. – Grantee Submission, 2020
Employing a mixed methods approach, this study examined the reading motivations of dual language learners (DLLs) in Grades 3-5 in a suburban Title I school in which the student population was predominantly Hispanic. Twenty-one students completed self-report surveys and participated in interviews focused on two intrinsic motivations (involvement…
Descriptors: Reading Motivation, Bilingual Students, Elementary School Students, Hispanic American Students
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Adams, Ashley M.; Glenberg, Arthur M.; Restrepo, Ma Adelaida – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2018
Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of an English-only version and a Spanish-support version of an embodied reading comprehension intervention (Moved by Reading) consisting of 3 stages (physical manipulation, imagined manipulation, and transfer) for Spanish-English dual language learners. Method: Sixty-one dual…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Intervention, Spanish Speaking, Bilingual Students
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Pace, Amy; Luo, Rufan; Levine, Dani; Iglesias, Aquiles; de Villiers, Jill; Golinkoff, Roberta M.; Wilson, Mary S.; Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy – Child Development, 2021
This study investigated the relation between Dual Language Learners' (N = 90) vocabulary and grammar comprehension and word learning processes in preschool (aged 3-through-5 years). Of interest was whether: (a) performance in Spanish correlated with performance in English within each domain; and (b) comprehension predicted novel word learning…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Bilingual Students, Vocabulary Development, Grammar
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