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Download full textMarium Abugasea Heidt – NECTFL Review, 2025
As language programs are endangered in K-16 contexts due to low enrollments, and for budgetary reasons, it is more important than ever to find enduring ways to help promote the study of languages and to make studying languages enjoyable for everyone. For sustainable language education, we need to focus on and promote the true purpose of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Programs, Declining Enrollment
Direct linkMargaret E. Malone; Malik Stevenson; Caitlyn Pineault – Foreign Language Annals, 2024
Language program evaluation has the potential for positive program impact by providing an opportunity for program stakeholders to reflect on their goals, examine their outcomes, and determine ways to move forward to maximize a program's effectiveness. However, many stakeholders are either unaware of the affordances of program evaluation or unable…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Programs, Program Evaluation
Ritz, Catherine; Sherf, Nicole – Foreign Language Annals, 2022
This large-scale study used a survey to collect data on K-12 world language program leadership and instructional practices in Massachusetts public schools, investigating associations between the presence of a program leader or primary evaluator who is a world language specialist and instructional practices, curriculum, and assessment. The study…
Descriptors: Second Language Programs, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Kindergarten
Heewon Jang; Richard W. Disalvo – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
How progressive is school spending when spending is measured at the school-level, instead of the district-level? We use the first dataset on school-level spending across schools throughout the United States to ask to what extent progressivity patterns previously examined across districts are amplified, nullified, or reversed, upon disaggregation…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Institutional Characteristics, Expenditures, School Districts
Ritz, Catherine; Sherf, Nicole – Foreign Language Annals, 2021
This large-scale study used a survey to collect data on K-12 world language programming in Massachusetts public schools. Building off work by Pufahl and Rhodes (2011), this study focused on world language programs, program types, and languages offered, as well as student exclusion, program leadership, and the Seal of Biliteracy. The study resulted…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Literacy, Bilingualism
Fielding, Ruth – Language Learning Journal, 2022
Language is commonly positioned as an economic resource. Recent debates have argued that policy interpretations of language as economic resource can potentially undermine language positioning and reduce understanding of the cognitive, cultural and social benefits of language learning. In monolingual policy contexts, such a positioning means that…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Policy, Language Planning, Educational Benefits
Office of English Language Acquisition, US Department of Education, 2021
The Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA) has synthesized key data on English learners (ELs) into two-page sheets on a variety of subjects. This fact sheet provides the following data on ELs in the United States over the 2017-2018 school year: (1) Percentage of Students Enrolled in K-12 Who Are English Learners; (2) English Language…
Descriptors: Profiles, Student Characteristics, English Language Learners, Kindergarten
Lê, Qu?nh Tiên Nguyên; Polikoff, Morgan S. – SAGE Open, 2021
"Castañeda v. Pickard" mandated that educational programs for emergent bilinguals be tested for program efficacy. As English language development (ELD) curricular materials are one part of an instructional program, we assess this mandate by examining the effectiveness of ELD materials in Texas, a large, diverse U.S. state with large…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Bilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
