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Wenyang Sun – Bilingual Research Journal, 2024
Drawing on Asian Critical Race Theory, this qualitative case study analyzed first-generation Chinese immigrant parents' language ideologies on their children's heritage language (HL) maintenance in the United States. The findings revealed parents' persistence in preserving their HLs for their children, as they considered HLs to be an integral…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Parent Attitudes, Chinese Americans, Racism
Sung, Ko-Yin – Bilingual Research Journal, 2020
This study invited parents in 21 one-way Mandarin Chinese dual immersion programs in Utah to respond to a survey on-line. Five hundred and eighty parents participated in this study. The objectives of the survey study were to learn the parents' reasons for enrollment, their program satisfaction, and whether there was a group difference based on the…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Immersion Programs, Parent Surveys, Ethnicity
Lee, Chaehyun; García, Georgia Earnest – Bilingual Research Journal, 2020
This qualitative study utilized sociocultural and heteroglossic perspectives to examine the oral translanguaging practices of four Korean-American first-graders in a Korean heritage language (HL) classroom. The research method was discourse analysis. The students attended all-English American schools during the school week and a Korean HL school…
Descriptors: Korean, Code Switching (Language), Native Language, Oral Language
Dual-Language Engagement: Concerted Cultivation of Spanish Use among Students, Teachers, and Parents
Prado, Yenda; Ramos, Michelle N.; Peña, Elizabeth; Zavala, Jenny – Bilingual Research Journal, 2022
Exploring parent, student, and teacher language moves is essential to develop and implement strategies that cultivate Spanish use in support of dual-language engagement. We used Lareau's concerted cultivation framework to explore language use at a K-8 dual-language immersion school. A case-study design integrating content analysis was used to…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Bilingual Teachers, Native Language, Second Language Learning
Lang, Nora W. – Bilingual Research Journal, 2019
This study investigated structural features of a newcomer program housed within a comprehensive high school and language practices among newcomer students and their teachers. Findings indicate efforts to provide newcomer students with "safe spaces," opportunities for language and literacy development in English and Spanish, and access to…
Descriptors: Immigrants, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Code Switching (Language)
Endo, R. – Bilingual Research Journal, 2013
This ethnographic case study describes how three Japanese immigrant parents in a midsize urban community in the Midwest viewed heritage-language education in relation to their children's socioemotional development as bicultural Americans. The literature review offers a comparative and historical analysis of Japanese schools in the diaspora to…
Descriptors: Risk, Rewards, Ethnography, Case Studies
Sailors, Misty; Hoffman, James V.; Pearson, P. David; Beretvas, S. Natasha; Matthee, Bertus – Bilingual Research Journal, 2010
In this article, we report on the results of a project devoted to improving literacy in South Africa's rural schools; specifically we report the results of an intervention study that centered on improving mother-tongue literacy instruction offered to learners in Grades 1 and 2 in South African schools. Our findings demonstrate that there are…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Foreign Countries, Literacy, Intervention
Farruggio, Peter – Bilingual Research Journal, 2010
CThe article is a study of Latino immigrant parents' agency toward primary language (L1) instruction in the face of restrictionist language policy. Certain attitudes and characteristics were associated with advocacy for Spanish L1 instruction. Interviews conducted in an urban California school district among parents with different background…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Bilingual Education, Parent Background, Educational Attainment
Block, Nicholas – Bilingual Research Journal, 2011
Forty initially English-dominant Latino students in four 90:10 Spanish two-way dual-immersion programs and 62 of their peers in mainstream English programs were studied to find out if their attitudes toward Spanish and Spanish-dominant individuals differ. Significant differences were found on many variables, with two-way dual-immersion students…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Immersion Programs, Biculturalism, Statistical Significance
Pu, Chang – Bilingual Research Journal, 2010
This article investigated four Chinese American students' biliteracy development in two contexts: their heritage language school and public school. Data were collected through participant observations, audio-recorded classroom interactions, student work samples, and semistructured interviews. Findings demonstrated how literacy instruction across…
Descriptors: Literacy, Cultural Influences, Chinese Americans, Bilingualism
You, Byeong-keun – Bilingual Research Journal, 2005
This preliminary study provides an interpretive reading of focus group interviews of four Korean American children in the Phoenix metropolitan area. It examines how these Korean American children are negotiating their ethnic identity as Korean Americans while learning Korean as a heritage language. It shows that maintaining heritage language is…
Descriptors: Korean Americans, Ethnicity, Focus Groups, Interviews
Cheung, Alan; Slavin, Robert E. – Bilingual Research Journal, 2005
This article systematically reviews research on elementary reading programs for English language learners and other language-minority students. It focuses on studies that compared experimental and control groups on quantitative reading measures. Among beginning reading models, research supported structured, phonetic programs emphasizing language…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Tutoring, Vocabulary Development, Reading Programs
Ramos, Francisco – Bilingual Research Journal, 2005
Five Spanish teachers working in California elementary schools participated in this project. Although they were assigned to teach in mainstream English programs, they noticed that some of the Latino students in their classrooms were officially classified as English language learners (ELLs) and, as such, had difficulties understanding their…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Language Teachers, Spanish, English (Second Language)