ERIC Number: ED634452
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2023-Apr-16
Pages: 10
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Leveraging Family Childcare Providers' Linguistic Strengths: A Teacher-Researcher Collaboration
Pontier, Ryan W.
AERA Online Paper Repository, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (Chicago, IL, Apr 13-16, 2023 and Virtual, May 4-5, 2023)
This study explores the collaborative process that two Korean-English and one Spanish-English bilingual Early Head Start family childcare educators, two instructional coaches, and the author engaged in as they co-created intentional bilingual approaches to supporting young emergent bilinguals. A thematic analysis of the design-based approach of teachers' experience and expertise, the author's observations and modeling, and regular honest feedback and conversations supported our collective work towards cultivating and sustaining spaces that reflected the linguistic realities of everyone present. This ongoing work showed that no single Head Start language approach was appropriate for all three teachers to draw on their entire linguistic repertoire while also providing rich and authentic multilingual learning experiences. This study problematizes the strict nature of monoglossic policymaking.
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Bilingual Education, Preschool Children, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Feedback (Response), Multilingualism, Learning Experience, Korean, Spanish, English (Second Language), Language Usage, Disadvantaged Youth, Preschool Education, Federal Programs, Teacher Student Relationship, Child Caregivers, Caregiver Training, Code Switching (Language)
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Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Preschool Education
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Language: English
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