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Leala Holcomb – Sign Language Studies, 2024
This investigation aimed to explore the feasibility of implementing the strategic and interactive signing instruction (SISI) framework and its potential to enhance the signed composition skills of four deaf students in a first/second-grade classroom. SISI was adapted from the existing strategic and interactive writing instruction (SIWI) framework…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Deafness, Teaching Methods, Grade 1
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Tang, Shifang; Tong, Fuhui; Lara-Alecio, Rafael; Irby, Beverly J. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
Via a multi-domain, multi-response classroom observation instrument, we observed and analyzed treatment and control teachers' pedagogical differences when applying cooperative, collaborative, and peer-tutoring (CCP) strategies in Grade 1 bilingual classrooms with English learners (ELs). We found that with the support of ongoing, structured, and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Teachers, Peer Teaching, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Lee, Chaehyun; García, Georgia Earnest – Bilingual Research Journal, 2020
This qualitative study utilized sociocultural and heteroglossic perspectives to examine the oral translanguaging practices of four Korean-American first-graders in a Korean heritage language (HL) classroom. The research method was discourse analysis. The students attended all-English American schools during the school week and a Korean HL school…
Descriptors: Korean, Code Switching (Language), Native Language, Oral Language
Ana Lucia Pallares-Weissling – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Taking a sociocultural perspective, this qualitative case study aims to contribute, investigate, and understand how young Mexican American emergent bilingual learners engage in early science experiences. Furthermore, the study focuses on how the students manifested their knowledge, understanding, and perceptions about science and its…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Mexican Americans, Academic Achievement, Disproportionate Representation
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Durán, Leah – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2018
This research describes the biliteracy learning of young bilingual children in an English as a Second Language classroom. In particular, it explores factors influencing their biliteracy in a context that provided systematic and formalized instruction only in English. Using a holistic perspective on bilingualism and sociocultural theories of…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Alvarez, Adriana – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2018
This qualitative study examines Mexican-American emerging bilingual children's depictions of their lives in the form of written narratives and drawings as a window into their own understandings and interpretations of social contexts and life experiences. Narratives that include drawings were collected once a month in a first grade classroom during…
Descriptors: Cultural Background, Bilingualism, Qualitative Research, Mexican Americans
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Choi, Jane Younga; Lee, Jin Sook; Oh, Janet S. – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2018
In this study, we examined the bilingual language development among Korean American first-graders in two southern California cities and explored the opportunities for language use available to them in various spaces: at school (one dual language immersion school and one traditional English-only public school), at home, and in the community. Data…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Korean, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Moses, Lindsey – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2013
This article provides a deeper understanding of how young bilinguals constructed meaning with expository texts in an inquiry-based setting over an academic year. An examination of classroom transcripts and analysis revealed how "Viewing" became the most frequently used literacy practice and a cultural tool in the construction of meaning…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Expository Writing, Reading Comprehension, Sociocultural Patterns
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Hu, Ran; Chen, Xiaoning; Li, Xiuping – Reading Horizons, 2012
This qualitative case study examines how five Chinese first graders responded to bilingual English/Chinese picture books and how bilingual books used during an eight-week study session impacted their bilingual and biliteracy development. Reader response and socio-cultural theories were the theoretical perspectives that underpin this study. Four…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Bilingualism, Chinese, English (Second Language)
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Olson, Kate – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2009
This article examines the implications of educational policies on teachers' beliefs and practices for English learners (ELs) in the context of the California educational reform agenda. By utilizing cultural-historical activity theory, this study paints a personal and pedagogical portrait of how 2 educated and experienced bilingual teachers…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Educational Change, Autobiographies, Bilingual Teachers
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Angelova, Maria; Gunawardena, Delmi; Volk, Dinah – Language and Education, 2006
This paper presents findings from a study of teaching and learning strategies co-constructed by peers in a Spanish/English dual language first grade classroom. Grounded in sociocultural theory and developed using ethnographic approaches to data collection and analysis, the study analyses the children's mediation of their own and each other's…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Peer Teaching, Learning Strategies, Bilingualism