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Isaac Frausto-Hernandez – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2024
Cross-border migration is increasing in a globalized world. On the physical borderlands, migration across and between borders occurs on a habitual basis. This qualitative study employs semi-structured interviews to explore how three "transfronterizo" teachers along the U.S.-Mexico borderlands draw on their backgrounds and lived…
Descriptors: Migration, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
David Martínez-Prieto – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2024
This study analyzes the impact that U.S. curricula have on Mexican transnational returnees. Specifically, this article focuses on the ideological development of the army and imperialism promoted in U.S. schools among Mexican populations. Using a framework that combines critical literacies, transnationalism, and Bourdieu's concepts of…
Descriptors: Power Structure, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Nydia Martínez; Gina Mikel Petrie; Catherine Nolan-Ferrell – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This study counters the popular assumption that Spanish Heritage Language Learners (SHLLs) on study abroad (SA) in a place of cultural origin can easily adapt and find acceptance due to the linguistic and cultural resources they bring with them. Our study builds on previous work to illustrate a more nuanced and complex story of desires for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, Spanish, Native Language
Degollado, Enrique David; Bell, Randy; Harvey-Torres, Rosalyn – Teachers College Record, 2022
Background/Context: Historically, the literature on access to quality education for Mexican Americans has been wrought with injustices committed on them because of the racist and deficit thinking of the time. This includes, but is not limited to, access to literacy in English and Spanish. This article focuses on las escuelitas, or little schools,…
Descriptors: Spanish, Bilingualism, Literacy, Mexican Americans
David Martínez-Prieto – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2025
This study examines the testimonios of Mexican language teachers who experienced the violent and institutional imposition of neoliberal policies at the main university at the state of Puebla. Through the analysis of "testimonios," language teachers narrated their own trajectories to resist the implementation of the neoliberal policies,…
Descriptors: Social Class, Personal Narratives, Teacher Attitudes, Neoliberalism
Selenne Ríos-Higuera; Elizabeth Ruiz-Esparza – MEXTESOL Journal, 2023
This paper presents the findings of a descriptive multiple case study carried out with six teachers of English in five public secondary schools in a city in northwestern Mexico aimed to determine how writing was taught. A mixed methods approach was followed with an embedded design in which qualitative data had increased weight and quantitative…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Secondary School Students, English (Second Language)
Fatima de la Luz Hernandez Salinas – Open Journal for Educational Research, 2024
The process of any language learning is a complex construction of objectives. Any goal is influenced by internal or external factors such as motivation, culture, previous experiences, attitudes, etc. This study aims to recognize and understand the distinct learners' attitudes during their learning progress. This research is conducted as a case…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Learning Processes
Mnouer, Mounia – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2023
This article is based on findings from my doctoral dissertation that investigated the narratives of former short-term study abroad (3-4 weeks) participants after they had settled back in their home country for one to two years. The theme of "sexuality," as it relates to the intercultural journey of study abroad, was a prominent theme…
Descriptors: Males, Educational Experience, Study Abroad, Sexuality
Sahr, Annabell – Athens Journal of Education, 2020
This qualitative case study draws on a theoretical framework of translanguaging (García & Wei, 2014) and border pedagogies (Cashman, 2015) and seeks to shed light on the question of what role translanguaging can play in students' language learning in a German as a foreign language class at a Hispanic-serving university that is situated in the…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Su Yeong Kim; Jinjin Yan; Wen Wen; Jiaxiu Song; Shanting Chen; Minyu Zhang; Belem G. Lopez; Maria M. Arredondo; Marci E. J. Gleason; Ka I. Ip – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
Few studies have considered bilingualism's impact on cognitive development within the sociolinguistic and cultural context of the immigrant communities where bilingualism is commonly practiced. In the United States, many Mexican-origin bilingual youth practice their bilingual skills by "brokering" (i.e. translating/interpreting between…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Mexican Americans, Second Languages, Translation
Tessman, Darcy – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2019
Federal and Arizona educational policies challenge U.S.-Mexico border educators to meet the diverse needs of bilingual, bicultural students while also being required to use instructional pedagogies that offer monolingual and monocultural schooling experiences. Ethnographic research captures American schooling experiences of Latino…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Mexican American Education, Hispanic American Students, Educational Policy
Laura Enriqueta Mendoza-Fierro – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This dissertation aims to contribute knowledge to the literature about ESOL students' digital literacy practices related to educational purposes. I studied the varied digital literacy practices the students used as mediating tools to perform their university activities (e.g., crossing to come to school, communicate with classmates/instructors…
Descriptors: Digital Literacy, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Héctor Castro Mosqueda – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
This article emphasizes the importance of acknowledging and considering teachers' funds of knowledge in the domain of language teacher learning. The study explores the concept of funds of knowledge in teacher learning by collecting data from a group of language teachers through written life stories, focus interviews, and individual interviews. The…
Descriptors: Cultural Background, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
Luna-Martínez, Héctor Rubén; Tapia-Carlín, Rebeca E. – HOW, 2023
This article reports the results of a study that was part of a master's thesis. The research focused on a private primary school in Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico. It aimed to explore English language teachers' cognition, specifically into the teaching practice and emotional responses reported when implementing the use of the iPad in their lessons. Four…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Mexicans, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Maria Fernanda Gavino – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This project explores how the variation in language experiences and attitudes that Mexican American Spanish heritage speaker bilinguals in the United States have affects their speech perception in both their languages. Heritage language bilinguals speak as a first language a minority language that they have cultural ties to (e.g., Spanish in the…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Mexican Americans, Bilingualism, Spanish Speaking