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Kulesa, Amy Chen; LiBetti, Ashley; Squire, Juliet; Trinidad, Justin; Goldberg, Rebecca Gifford – Bellwether Education Partners, 2020
The goal of this toolkit is to shed light on the importance of authorizing nontraditional charter schools and how the challenges of authorizing nontraditional schools manifest in practice, as well as to provide action steps for authorizers and school leaders who are able and eager to lead the field on these complex issues. The toolkit contains the…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Nontraditional Education, Accountability, Models
Frederick J. Poole – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The purpose of this multiple-paper dissertation is to design a digital game and stealth assessments within the game to assess young second language learners' Chinese reading proficiency. In Chapter 2 (Paper 1), I describe the game designed for this dissertation and how it was implemented in a dual language immersion classroom. This study found…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Immersion Programs, Reading Comprehension, Student Evaluation
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Grivet, Candice Suzanne; Haj-Broussard, Michelle; Broomé, Rodger – Foreign Language Annals, 2021
This study explored how school administrators understand and plan for French immersion program components in K-12 schools in Louisiana. The theory of effective bilingual schooling and the Guiding Principles for Dual Language Education served as the framework of the study. The research questions that guided the study asked how school principals and…
Descriptors: French, Immersion Programs, Bilingual Education, School Administration
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Ó Ceallaigh, T. J.; Hourigan, Máiréad; Leavy, Aisling – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
Research has shown immersion to be effective, yet our understanding about the integration of language and content in Irish-medium immersion (IMI) pedagogy remains incomplete. This article reports on how the teaching of mathematics in the IMI elementary setting, supported pre-service teachers in bridging the language and content gap. The study…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Undergraduate Students, Elementary Education
Ulrike Brons – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Despite the growing societal demand for multilingual graduates prepared to engage in local and global contexts, programs to meet these demands are scarce, especially in K-8 contexts. When schools do seek to implement programs, stakeholders struggle to choose from the established models because research documenting desired outcomes is lacking.…
Descriptors: FLES, Second Language Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Development
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Xia, Lihua; Bak, Thomas H.; Vega-Mendoza, Mariana; Sorace, Antonella – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
The current study examined cognitive effects of two pathways of second language (L2) acquisition longitudinally in Chinese speakers learning English in an L2-dominant environment. Thirty-nine participants who attended an intensive 10-week English course (L2-instruction group) were compared to 38 participants who attended regular university courses…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Cognitive Processes
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Chaparro, Sofía E. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2023
This paper addresses the interactional dynamics of one bilingual, two-way immersion classroom where children came from diverse linguistic, cultural, racial, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Based on an ethnographic discourse analytic study of one kindergarten TWI classroom, I analyze interactional data using participant frameworks as the unit of…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Discourse Analysis, Bilingualism, Socialization
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Simonis, Morgane; Galand, Benoit; Hiligsmann, Philippe; Szmalec, Arnaud – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2023
There is currently much controversy surrounding the cognitive advantages that are often associated with bilingualism, especially regarding the so-called executive control advantage. Recently, it has been suggested that bilingualism emerging from immersion education may not lead to an advantage in executive control, but rather to an improvement…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Immersion Programs, French, Bilingualism
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Davis, Stephen – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2023
French immersion (FI) programs in Canada have historically served predominantly Canadian-born, English-speaking students and families in their endeavour to learn both of the country's official languages, French and English. However, FI programs are becoming increasingly culturally and linguistically diverse as a result of increased global…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Immersion Programs, Second Language Instruction
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Mortimer, Katherine S.; Dolsa, Gabriela – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2023
Conceptualizations of language as translanguaging (Otheguy, García, and Reid 2015) help us to render wholeness out of languages and groups of speakers socially constructed as distinct. Yet in practice teachers are still compelled to identify students by dichotomous institutional labels for discrete proficiencies in named languages: identity labels…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Language Usage, Native Language, Second Language Learning
Alissa Patricia Wolters – ProQuest LLC, 2023
We examined spelling errors patterns, cohesive ties, and syntax features in English and Spanish essays written by Spanish-English emergent bilinguals in Grades 1, 2, and 3 (N = 278; 51% female) enrolled in either English immersion or English-Spanish dual immersion programs. In Study 1, we addressed whether students made consistent spelling errors…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Elementary School Students
Xinye Zhang – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation draws on both qualitative and quantitative approaches to investigate the linguistic practices of teachers and children who are learning Mandarin Chinese as a Heritage Language (CHL) in two dual immersion preschools in California. CHL children have been interpreted as novice members in local speech communities who actively explore…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Variation
Sarah Asson; Erica Frankenberg; Clémence Darriet; Lucrecia Santibañez; Claudia Cervantes-Soon; Francesca López – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
Two-way dual language immersion programs (TWDL) aim to integrate English speakers and speakers of a partner language in the same classroom to receive content instruction in both languages. Stated goals include bilingualism and biliteracy, high academic achievement, and sociocultural competence. In school districts aiming to reduce segregation,…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Language of Instruction
Xenia Ribaya Emperador-Garnace – Online Submission, 2023
Higher education institutions nowadays are eyeing the potential of cooperative & work-integrated education programs (CWIE) in increasing the English proficiency level of Thai students. Hence, this study aims to interlink English language teaching and learning vis-à-vis the various CWIE programs utilized by the College of Local Administration,…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Work Experience Programs, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Kara Moranski; Juan Godoy-Peñas; Bernard Issa; Mandy Faretta-Stutenberg; Harriet Wood Bowden – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2023
This exploratory study evaluated the impact of a Spanish second language (L2) domestic immersion (DI) program that was developed expediently at a large university in the United States in response to widespread study abroad (SA) program closures due to COVID-19. Spanish language learners (n = 14) participated in an intensive, six-week summer…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Study Abroad, Task Analysis
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