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Calderon, Margarita Espino – 1999
This digest discusses a project conducted in the Ysleta Independent School District in El Paso, Texas, that sought to integrate effective practices in literacy education, an empirically based cooperative learning model, and a classroom management model to help teachers develop the English and Spanish language proficiency of their students. The…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Classroom Techniques, Cooperative Learning, Elementary Education
Tucker, G. Richard; Donato, Richard – 2001
This digest describes the implementation of a successful district-wide elementary school foreign language (FLES) program that resulted from the superintendent's vision to have all students in the district study a common foreign language throughout their schooling. This vision was based on the superintendent's belief that American secondary school…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Cooperation, Elementary Education, FLES
Lewelling, Vickie W.; Peyton, Joy Kreeft – 1999
This digest focuses on teaching Spanish to native or Hispanic heritage language students in the United States. Heritage language students are students who speak another language (in this case Spanish) as their first language either because they were born in another country or because their families speak another language at home. The entrance of…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Heritage Education, Higher Education, Hispanic Americans