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Direct linkZheng, 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
Tedick, Diane J.; Young, Amy I. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2018
Two-way immersion (TWI) programs in the U.S. integrate learners with different home languages and varied proficiencies in Spanish and English. Although both English home language (EHL) and Spanish home language (SHL) TWI students succeed academically in English, they often experience incomplete acquisition (Montrul 2011. "Morphological Errors…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Spanish, English, Language Usage
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
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
Martin-Beltran, Melinda – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2010
This study examines the social construction of proficiency and the discursive practices prevalent in linguistically diverse schools that afford or constrain participation in language learning communities. Drawing from discourse studies, positioning theory and a sociocultural framework, this study analyzed data from audio recordings and…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Grade 5, Language Proficiency
Download full textMartin-Beltran, Melinda – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2009
Grounded in sociocultural theory, this study uses an ecological approach to examine how student interactions within a dual-language school context may offer affordances for increased linguistic and conceptual understanding. Using qualitative analysis of student discourse, this paper focuses on data from recorded interactions between pairs of…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Holistic Approach, Grade 5, Minority Groups
