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Yuya Arai; Kotaro Takizawa – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2025
Despite the preponderance of research on extensive reading (ER), the research field still suffers from a lack of common understanding of what ER is and how it should be implemented. From the perspective of Day and Bamford's (2002) seminal ten principles for teaching ER, the present methodological synthesis aimed to systematically review and…
Descriptors: Reading Habits, Reading Instruction, Reading Research, Educational Principles
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Diana Marcela Duque Salazar; María Alejandra Tangarife Loaiza; Ángela Patricia Velásquez Hoyos – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2024
This systematic literature review examines the panorama of interculturality in rural contexts of bilingual education in Latin America. It aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the current state of knowledge in Latin America and identify key themes, challenges, and gaps in the field. The review highlights the importance of recognizing and…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Bilingual Education, Latin Americans, Cultural Pluralism
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Andress, Tim T.; Baker, Doris Luft; Goodrich, Marc; Feuer, Elizabeth; Huang, Yixian; Thayer, Lauren – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2023
This systematic review aims to synthesize the literature on the effects of cross-linguistic transfer on Spanish/English bilinguals' reading comprehension skills. The search yielded at least 90 studies in which participants were Spanish/English bilinguals aged birth to Grade 12. Researchers assessed participants' decoding and/or linguistic…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Transfer of Training, Second Language Learning, Native Language
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Alejandro Granados Vargas; Cecilia Perez; Betty Yu – EBP Briefs (Evidence-based Practice Briefs), 2024
Clinical Question: Would the performance on a narrative task (O) differ for a bilingual child with a potential language disability (P) when using a translanguaging approach to narrative language sample analysis (I) compared to restricting narratives to one language per task (C)? Method: Systematic Review. Study Sources: Google Scholar. Search…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Bilingualism, Referral, Speech Evaluation
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Jose L. Arco-Tirado; Francisco D. Fernandez-Martin; Miriam Hervas-Torres; Gracia Jimenez-Fernandez; Nuria Calet Ruiz; Amanda J. Neitzel; Robert E. Slavin – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2021
Background/Context: Literacy skills are critical to understanding information presented in written or oral formats and communicating effectively with others. These skills are important to students' success in school and later in life, including improved individual health and economic outcomes, increased civic engagement, and enhanced community…
Descriptors: Intervention, Spanish, Reading Instruction, Spanish Speaking
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Salmerón, Cori – Journal of Literacy Research, 2022
While a wealth of research shows the social and academic benefits of bilingualism and multilingualism, the education of bi/multilingual learners often focuses on transitioning students to English. Based on this fact, the first aim of this article is to highlight translanguaging as a model that challenges monoglossic language ideologies. The second…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Code Switching (Language), Literacy Education, Transformative Learning
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Lei Xu; Nunilon G. Ayuyao; Xingshan Jiang – International Journal of Language Education, 2024
This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of language policy in the Philippines, with a particular emphasis on the status, challenges, and future prospects of Chinese language education within the national framework. The study is structured into five distinct sections. Firstly, the historical development of language policies in…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Chinese
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Lertola, Jennifer – Research-publishing.net, 2019
Rapid technological changes have given rise to new methods and opportunities in language learning. In the past two decades, interest has been growing in the integration of Audiovisual Translation (AVT) with a communicative approach to language learning and teaching. AVT indicates the transfer of verbal language in audiovisual media and it is…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Audiovisual Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Collins, Laura; Muñoz, Carmen – Modern Language Journal, 2016
"The Modern Language Journal" has long been an important venue for the publication of research and reflection on the teaching and learning of foreign languages (FL) in classroom contexts. In this article, we offer a perspective on the contemporary FL classroom, informed by a descriptive survey of all studies that took place in FL classes…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, French, German
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Ríos, Cristina; Castillón, Catalina – International Research and Review, 2018
This article, a literature review of current trends in bi-literacy development and bilingual education examines published research dedicated to exploring the literacy strengths in the primary language that immigrant children bring to the classroom, and the potential of these children for becoming bilingual and bi-literate. The focus of the review…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Native Language, Immigrants, Spanish
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Dulfano, Isabel; Rubio, Fernando – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2014
The objective of this paper is to trace the actual demand on enrolments over time, as much as the history of wavering public and academic sentiment towards teaching and speaking Spanish in this country during the last century. Secondarily, we examine the question of the value of mother tongue fluency or the acquisition, mastery and usage of the…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Native Language
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Bonilla, Carrie L. – Hispania, 2013
This essay contributes to the research on the emergence of tense/aspect morphology by reviewing the results and task conditions of studies supporting either the Aspect Hypothesis (AH) or the Default Past Tense Hypothesis (DPTH) for second language (L2) learners of Spanish. The AH has found that past marking emerges based on inherent aspectual…
Descriptors: Spanish, Morphemes, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Eckman, Fred R. – Second Language Research, 2011
This review article evaluates the intersection of the content of two recent anthologies in second language (L2) phonology. One of the books lays out both the methodological context and theoretical underpinnings of the field, whereas the other volume reports 11 empirical studies on the L2 acquisition of several aspects of pronunciation by adult…
Descriptors: Phonology, Interlanguage, Anthologies, English (Second Language)
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Bolger, Patrick A.; Zapata, Gabriela C. – Heritage Language Journal, 2011
This paper focuses on the dearth of language-processing research addressing Spanish heritage speakers in assimilationist communities. First, we review key offline work on this population, and we then summarize the few psycholinguistic (online) studies that have already been carried out. In an attempt to encourage more such research, in the next…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Heritage Education, Language Processing, Spanish
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Valdes, Guadalupe – Hispania, 1989
Examines how Spanish is taught to Hispanic bilinguals. Discussion focuses on how the oral proficiency movement directly affects the teaching of native Spanish speakers. Key issues and problems stemming from the language teaching profession's attempts to apply the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages/Educational Testing Service…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Hispanic Americans, Language Proficiency, Native Language Instruction
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