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Mary Hudgens Henderson – Journal of Multilingual Education Research, 2025
Critical Language Awareness (CLA) instruction can and should be a part of K-12 education. This study reports on a CLA unit taught to Spanish-English bilingual 5th graders enrolled in a dual language bilingual classroom in the southwest U.S. Scores from a pretest and three posttests administered throughout the school year were compared to peer…
Descriptors: Spanish, English (Second Language), Bilingualism, Grade 5
Rosalinda Melchor – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This case study explored Spanish-speaking educators' perceptions and experiences of dual-language immersion (DLI) professional learning (PL). The study aimed to understand how PL offerings could best support and meet the needs of DLI Spanish teachers' best practices in the target language. The perceptions and experiences of seven Spanish DLI…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Lauren B. Braunstein; Jennifer M. Barreto – Bilingual Research Journal, 2024
This article draws on qualitative data from a Two-Way Immersion Spanish environment classroom to explore how African American students lived experiences, language, and cultural practices are regulated and/or constrained. Drawing on the theoretical framework of Bahktin's heteroglossia and raciolinguistics, the authors present two distinct…
Descriptors: Grade 5, African American Students, Immersion Programs, Spanish
María Sampedro Mella; Claudia Sánchez Gutiérrez – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
The use of the Spanish pronouns of address "tú" and "usted" is an intricate matter for L2 learners due to the many factors that influence their selection at the discourse and interactional level. Although the literature has traditionally focused on the challenges experienced by L1-English learners of L2-Spanish in learning…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, French, Portuguese
Ana Solano-Campos – Urban Education, 2025
Using an ethico-epistemic lens that integrates Latina decolonizing feminist thought, I examine the ways in which Latina dual language teachers in a Dual Language Bilingual Education (DLBE) program in Massachusetts mobilized epistemic authorship to address knowledge-based injustices that they experienced at work. The teachers enacted epistemic…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Hispanic Americans, Females, Language Teachers
Erin Feinauer Whiting; Erika Feinauer; Sionelle Nicole Beller; Elizabeth R. Howard – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2024
Little systematic attention has been paid toward belonging for young children, particularly in contexts of diversity that are regularly part of school settings. Two-Way immersion (TWI) programs provide one educational context ideally suited for exploring the constructs of belonging and inclusion in linguistically and culturally diverse settings.…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Perception, Inclusion, Sense of Community
Devin Grammon – Applied Linguistics, 2025
This article examines cases where two study abroad students--Rita and Jack--problematized the normative use of specific dialectal variants by local native speakers at the end of their Spanish immersion program in Peru. Specifically, it explores what these cases reveal about second language learners' sociolinguistic competence in a study abroad…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Dialects, Language Usage, Spanish
Giselle Martinez Negrette; Maria Elena Garcia-Peterman – NABE Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
This paper examines national, state, and local factors impacting the creation of a new dual language immersion program (DLI) program in a Midwestern school district, a relatively understudied regional context. Using a critical bifocal lens and an ethnographic case study methodology, we examined two main questions: first, why was the DLI program…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Spanish, English, Program Implementation
Thane, Patrick; Goldin, Michele; Jimenez, Abril; Hur, Esther; Lopez Otero, Julio Cesar; Austin, Jennifer – NABE Journal of Research and Practice, 2022
In this paper, we address a lack of assessments of partner language development in dual language immersion (DLI) programs. We propose several important considerations that are necessary for the creation of research-based assessments of partner language development in DLI programs, focusing on Spanish as an example. We first discuss what these…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Bilingual Education Programs, Second Language Learning, Evaluation
Padilla, Amado M.; Chen, Xinjie; Swanson, Elizabeth; Peterson, Margaret; Peruzzaro, Amy – Foreign Language Annals, 2022
Five cohorts of students (N = 322) who completed a K-5 Spanish Dual Language Immersion (DLI) program in an urban school district were followed longitudinally through middle and high school completion. Academic and language achievement data included English Language Arts and Mathematics scores on the Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) test…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Spanish, Immersion Programs, Bilingual Education
Jasmery Sudler – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The state of Delaware has a Dual Language Immersion program serving students from different backgrounds and varying socioeconomic statuses with a wide range of diverse needs. The state has ever-increasing difficulty finding qualified teachers who also speak the target language of the program, in this case, Spanish. As a result, districts within…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction, Spanish
Derrick D. Estes – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Limited research exists on African American students in Spanish-English dual language programs and parent perspectives. This research study allowed the voices of 10 African American parents who have students currently enrolled in an elementary Spanish-English dual language program in a school district located in Southeast Texas to be heard. The…
Descriptors: African Americans, Parent Attitudes, African American Students, Immersion Programs
Lindsay Merritt – ProQuest LLC, 2024
As interest in Dual Language Immersion programs continues to grow in North Carolina, the hiring of international teachers has increased tremendously. These international teachers often have not had the experience or training to address the needs of the students they are serving. In addition, pedagogical challenges such as working with diverse…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Language Teachers, Bilingual Teachers, Spanish
Elizabeth Dubberly – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation seeks to illuminate additive significance of the entanglements within a Dual Language Immersion Spanish Science classroom where arts-based pedagogies are employed. Using a theoretical framework that combines Jane Bennett's Vibrant Materialism (2010) and notion of Enchantment (2002) and Gloria Anzaldua's concept of Nepantla…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Immersion Programs, Spanish, Science Education
Kara Moranski – Modern Language Journal, 2025
Domestic immersion (DI) is an effective context for postsecondary language learning, given that DI's instructor-curated environments promote meaningful second language use while providing abundant support for learners. However, DI is at present understudied within second language acquisition research, especially when compared to its more…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Spanish Speaking, Oral Language