NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing 436 to 450 of 3,334 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Hoenes del Pinal, Eric – Language Policy, 2016
One of the most far-reaching reforms undertaken by the Catholic Church as part of the Second Vatican Council was the adoption of vernacular languages in the liturgy. The transition from Latin to vernaculars was not unproblematic, however, as it raised several practical and theoretical questions regarding the relationship between local churches and…
Descriptors: Catholics, American Indian Languages, Churches, Bilingualism
Analia Veronica Jaimovich – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Latin-American governments are increasingly promoting public-private partnerships to provide much-needed external support to schools, but little is known about the mechanisms through which such partnerships operate. This study aims to contribute to the literature on external support for school improvement by analyzing how a non-government…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Latin Americans, Partnerships in Education, Government Role
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Baker, Doris Luft; Ma, Hao; Gallegos, Elisa – Bilingual Research Journal, 2019
This experimental study explores the effects of workshops designed to increase directly the knowledge of Latinx parents, and indirectly, their children's vocabulary knowledge. Thirty-two Latinx mothers were randomly assigned to either attend six workshops in Spanish (n = 17), or to a wait-list control group (n = 15). Workshops included carefully…
Descriptors: Parent Workshops, Knowledge Level, Family Literacy, Young Children
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Dietrich, Elise M. – Hispania, 2017
In 1960s Rio de Janeiro, the Brazilian white middle class embraced the samba music written by working-class blacks as a source of authentic national culture. Cultural mediators, or individuals that bridged sociocultural spheres and negotiated the terms in which work was produced and circulated, were essential to samba's mainstream acceptance. This…
Descriptors: Social Change, Music, Musicians, Whites
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Marsh, Kathryn – Music Education Research, 2017
In contemporary society, global population movements, global conflict and ensuing migration have resulted in the presence of bicultural children in many nations, with multiple possibilities for musical engagement emerging within their home and host cultures. For these children, issues of social integration, identity construction, and cultural…
Descriptors: Music, Music Education, Immigrants, Well Being
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Lunn, Patricia; Frantzen, Diana – Hispania, 2017
Linguists are an increasing presence not only in graduate programs but at undergraduate institutions as well, and this could lead to positive interdisciplinary changes in curricula. Literary/cultural texts contain masterful examples of how linguistic features are used to communicate meaning, and learners need to notice these features in order to…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Spanish Literature
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Corona, Víctor – Research-publishing.net, 2017
This chapter explains part of a broader study. To be specific, it is based on the research the author has been conducting in the city of Barcelona from 2005 through to the present day on what it means to "be Latino" in a youth- and school-based context. The work was essentially inspired by the ethnography of communication and the…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Latin Americans, Spanish, Language Variation
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
David S. Nolen – College & Research Libraries, 2014
This study examined references found in three journals in the field of Spanish and Latin American literary studies. Few previous studies have examined types of publishers producing highly cited/referenced books. The data indicate that the primary publishers of scholarly monographs referenced in the journals are U.S. university presses, foreign…
Descriptors: Latin American Literature, Spanish Literature, Periodicals, Citations (References)
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Dabach, Dafney Blanca; Suárez-Orozco, Carola; Hernandez, Sera J.; Brooks, Maneka Deanna – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2018
Teacher expectancy research has demonstrated the greatest effects for members of racialized groups. Most research has focused on students' near-term abilities; missing are understandings of how teachers perceive their students' future trajectories. Drawing on social mirroring and attribution theories, this study investigates how 14 elementary,…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Elementary School Teachers, Middle School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
Arbouin, Amanda – Trentham Books, 2018
Amanda Arbouin breaks new ground in documenting the learning and employment of black graduates in the UK. Ten British graduates of African Caribbean heritage review their education, both compulsory and post-compulsory, and their careers. They relate how they navigated the obstructions and microaggressions encountered while pursuing academic…
Descriptors: Blacks, Employment, Educational Attainment, Barriers
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Bonomi, Milin – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2020
The Italian linguistic space has radically changed through the onset of the new millennium due to the presence of innovative multiple linguistic practices that have taken place as a consequence of deterritorialization processes. Furthermore, Latino diaspora in recent years have fostered the appearance of new forms of Global Spanishes (García and…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Language Usage, Italian, Language Variation
Pinder, Patrice Juliet – Online Submission, 2020
Across the globe, from the very wealthy continents of North America to Europe to Australia, the phenomenon of migrant and immigrant students outperforming native students are observed and documented. Some migrants and immigrants from China, the Philippines, India, Russia, Africa, and the Caribbean are reportedly achieving higher test scores than…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Immigrants, Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Yilmaz, Hale – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2019
This paper examines how the religious education of Turkish children in the "old letters" became an area of everyday contestation between the state and families and communities in the late 1920s and 1930s. Since children were seen as the nation's future, state authorities were adamant about teaching the new generation the new alphabet and…
Descriptors: Muslims, Islam, Religious Education, Educational History
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Ade-Ojo, Gordon O.; Yacoub, Raed – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2019
This article provides an argument for the recognition of complementary alternative literacy learning spaces (CALLS) as a strategy for operationalising the notion of multi-literacies in classroom practice. The paper draws empirical evidence from a small-case project to support the claim that scratch, functioning as a CALLS is a viable tool for…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Adult Literacy, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Cox, Jessica G. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2017
Little is known about older adult language learners and effects of aging on L2 learning. This study investigated learning in older age through interactions of learner-internal and -external variables; specifically, late-learned L2 (bilingualism) and provision of grammar explanation (explicit instruction, EI). Forty-three older adults (age 60+) who…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Bilingualism
Pages: 1  |  ...  |  26  |  27  |  28  |  29  |  30  |  31  |  32  |  33  |  34  |  ...  |  223