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Rajendram, Shakina – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
Translanguaging offers a new perspective on language learning by affirming and leveraging the diverse language practices that make up learners' unitary language repertoire as resources for their learning. Despite the potential pedagogical benefits of translanguaging, English-only policies are still prevalent in many language classrooms. Even when…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Language of Instruction
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Zheng, Bingjie – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
Although English-Chinese bilingual development has been studied in community contexts, it has not been adequately addressed in the K-12 Chinese immersion classrooms despite the increasing number of Chinese immersion programs across the United States. To inform effective pedagogies in Chinese immersion classrooms, this study reports on a nine-month…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Immersion Programs
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Ruiz-Funes, Marcela T. – Foreign Language Annals, 2020
This study reports on a small-scale, longitudinal investigation on L2 Spanish oral development by English-home language (EHL) learners in an English/Spanish Two-Way Immersion (TWI) program in rural, eastern United States. It examined EHL learners' oral ability in L2 Spanish based on longitudinal assessment data from Kindergarten, Grade 2, and…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Spanish, Native Language, Second Language Learning
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Jonsson, Carla – Classroom Discourse, 2019
In a bilingual school, the linguistic and semiotic resources of students who speak one, two or several languages can be used in classroom discourse in order to embrace and strengthen the multiplicity of voices and languages in teaching and learning. In this article, four English language lessons -- where the medium of instruction mainly oscillates…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning, Bilingual Schools
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Poza, Luis E. – Bilingual Research Journal, 2019
Scholarship suggests that bilingual students' translanguaging skills -- their multilingual and multimodal communicative competencies -- should be leveraged as a valuable meaning-making resource and that translanguaging pedagogies can disrupt linguistic hierarchies and the ideologies of race, class, and nationhood that constitute them.…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Language Usage, Classroom Communication, Audio Equipment
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Reyes, Iliana – Bilingual Research Journal, 2004
This study examined the code-switching patterns in the speech of immigrant Spanish-speaking children. Seven- and 10-year-old boys and girls from bilingual classrooms were each paired with a mutually selected friend, and their speech was collected in two contexts: while the children waited for an expected science experiment and when they worked…
Descriptors: Science Experiments, Spanish Speaking, Communicative Competence (Languages), Bilingual Education