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Scott E. Grapin – Educational Researcher, 2024
The field of multilingual learner education has become increasingly complex, with longstanding efforts focused on promoting "access" to multilingual learners being criticized for failing to "transform" systems responsible for these students' marginalization. This essay brings clarity to the complex terrain of equity for…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Equal Education, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education
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Henderson, Davis E. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2021
Standardized norm-referenced language assessments are used to identify developmental language disorder (DLD) in bicultural Navajo children. However, these assessments do not include normative data for Navajo children, the majority of whom are exposed to both Navajo and English, and consequently the assessments may not reflect their true language…
Descriptors: Navajo, Biculturalism, Language Skills, Norm Referenced Tests
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Fielding, Ruth – Language Learning Journal, 2021
An intercultural stance within languages education has been widely embraced within curriculum planning in Australia. Yet prior research has shown that in implementation the stance may not reach its full potential. A key element of an intercultural stance is a focus on reciprocal understanding and "intra"cultural change. Students must…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Self Concept, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Fichtner, Friederike; Barcroft, Joe – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2021
Second language (L2) learners comprehend more when they are prepared for novel vocabulary that they encounter in a text. Input-based incremental (IBI) vocabulary instruction (Barcroft, 2012) provides L2 instructors and learners with a means of achieving this goal by (a) presenting optimal input to learners at the right time during a…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Self Concept, German
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Flores, Belinda Bustos; Alonzo, Adriana; García, Claudia Treviño; Santillán, Lisa – NABE Journal of Research and Practice, 2022
In this manuscript, we discuss the unique characteristics of critical bicultural-bilingual pedagogues. A sociocultural transformative framework anchors the notion of critical bicultural-bilingual pedagogues and builds on my own as well the work of other scholars. There are two overarching themes that are considered regarding critical…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Biculturalism, Bilingual Teachers, Sociocultural Patterns
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Garza, Raul; Eufracio, Gricelda; Jupp, James C. – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2022
Our essay sketches resistant, transnational, and translanguaging traditions of the Rio Grande Valley (RGV), Aztlán and conjugates them with our critical curricular-pedagogical praxis. After an introductory section, we frame our essay between transnational intellectual traditions and critical place-based pedagogies. Following our framings, we…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Teaching Methods, Code Switching (Language), Place Based Education
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Hamamra, Bilal Tawfiq; Qararia, Salsabil – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2018
Bilingualism and biculturalism have a very immediate impact on the make-up of literary works of bilingual and bicultural authors with immediate linguistic traces of bilingual and bicultural mosaic of textual creation. Code-switching is a linguistic and cultural practice used by bilinguals in writing and speaking. This article examines the…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Authors, Bilingualism, Biculturalism
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Brosinsky, Larissa; Georgis, Rebecca; Gokiert, Rebecca; Mejia, Teresa; Kirova, Anna – Childhood Education, 2018
The pressing needs of populations with unique challenges, such as immigrants or refugees, often stimulate important innovation in development of educational techniques and resources. This article highlights the RAISED between Cultures model, a conceptual framework for understanding children's experiences holistically and promoting intercultural…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Refugees, Biculturalism, Barriers
Stewart, Mary Amanda – Phi Delta Kappan, 2013
Mary Amanda Stewart is conferred the 2013 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award for her enterprising and timely work in the field of education research. Stewart's dissertation highlights the ways in which Latino and Latina immigrant youth who are newly arrived to the U.S. possess many skills, including managing transnational relationships…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Hispanic American Students, Social Networks, English (Second Language)
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Colombo, Laura – Journal of International Students, 2014
It is late at night, after working all day on her postdoctoral research Laura Colombo is trying to wind down while drawing and jotting down thoughts in her notebook. She is in the living room/office of her apartment in Buenos Aires, the city where she was born and left when she was 26 years old to pursue her graduate studies in the United States…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Researchers, Study Abroad, Graduate Study
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Kanno, Yasuko – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2014
Social class has been underresearched in the field of applied linguistics. The central goal of this forum was to stimulate more conversation about social class as it impacts language learning and teaching. In this article, I comment on 3 salient themes that have emerged in the 5 articles: (1) agency and structure in language learning and teaching,…
Descriptors: Social Class, Language Research, Applied Linguistics, Second Language Learning
Osborn, Hazel – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2012
Parents who move their families to the United States want their children to have full advantage of the educational opportunities available, and they often worry about language or cultural barriers. They need the support of early childhood educators to prepare their children for a good educational experience. Child care providers need to understand…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Child Care, Bilingualism, English (Second Language)
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Lourie, Megan – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2011
Maori language education policy documents reflect an underlying ambivalence about the desired outcomes for non-Maori learners participating in "as-a-subject" Maori language learning. The view of the Maori language as a national language may be in the process of being replaced by a view that identifies the language primarily as a cultural…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Ethnicity, Official Languages, Biculturalism
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Flores, Yvette G.; Manzo, Rosa D. – Teacher Education and Practice, 2012
According to recent U.S. Census Bureau (2009) data, more than 20% of residents speak a language other than English. Today, 22.3% of U.S. children in Grades K-12 are Latino, and 21% speak a language other than English at home (National Center for Education Statistics, 2010). In California, nearly half (44.8%) of all children in the K-12 system…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Immigrants, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Barnes-Karol, Gwendolyn; Broner, Maggie A. – Foreign Language Annals, 2010
The centrality of culture and language learning in foreign language instruction is highlighted in the "Standards for Foreign Language Learning in the 21st Century" (National Standards, 2006) and the MLA report, "Foreign Languages and Higher Education: New Structures for a Changed World" (MLA Ad Hoc Committee on Foreign Languages, 2007).…
Descriptors: Linguistic Competence, National Standards, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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