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Jasmery Sudler – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The state of Delaware has a Dual Language Immersion program serving students from different backgrounds and varying socioeconomic statuses with a wide range of diverse needs. The state has ever-increasing difficulty finding qualified teachers who also speak the target language of the program, in this case, Spanish. As a result, districts within…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction, Spanish
Alya Mohammed Alrobaian – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia began to enhance and develop the system of Saudi education. Therefore, the Saudi Ministry of Education offered Saudi Arabian teachers the opportunity to travel to the United States to participate in an American university-sponsored professional development program provided by the Midwestern University College of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Faculty Development, Immersion Programs
Rosalinda Melchor – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This case study explored Spanish-speaking educators' perceptions and experiences of dual-language immersion (DLI) professional learning (PL). The study aimed to understand how PL offerings could best support and meet the needs of DLI Spanish teachers' best practices in the target language. The perceptions and experiences of seven Spanish DLI…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Xi Li – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study explores the effectiveness of current teacher preparation program that prepare dual language immersion teachers and identifies effective professional development training approach for teachers under the layer of culturally and linguistically responsive pedagogical practices. Through a qualitative phenomenology approach that includes…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Program Effectiveness, Chinese, Immersion Programs
Amparo Moran-Lopez – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Considerable research on the two-way Spanish immersion model of education highlights benefits such as biliteracy, high academic achievement in both languages of instruction, and sociocultural competence for students of various linguistic and sociocultural backgrounds. The desire to gain these 21st century skills has caused a proliferation of dual…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Teaching Methods, Bilingualism, Culturally Relevant Education
Lin, Li Li – ProQuest LLC, 2022
China's rising economy has increased the popularity of learning the Chinese language. Chinese immersion programs have gained popularity in K-12 education, particularly for younger learners. However, research on the optimal instruction design for Chinese and English biliteracy development in one-way Chinese immersion programs is scarce. This…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Bilingualism, Accountability, English (Second Language)
Corinne Sierra Mathieu – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Dual language and immersion (DLI) instruction at the secondary level is a particular challenge, as teachers are tasked with teaching abstract, cognitively complex content while supporting students in continuing to develop their partner language proficiency. This content and language integration requires a unique skill set and knowledge base, but…
Descriptors: Spanish, Program Design, Immersion Programs, Second Language Learning
Shuzhen Xie – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This qualitative phenomenological study explores U.S. principals' challenges, successes, and best practices in leading Mandarin Chinese immersion programs in high-need rural schools in a Midwestern state. The study addresses cultural efficiency, increasing student enrollment through principalship preparation, and attracting the interest of parents…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Mandarin Chinese
Dalton, Kelly Mcgrath – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The urgent call to internationalize teacher education in response to the impact globalization presents in our nation's classrooms, also calls for a fundamental shift in how the field of teacher education provides opportunities of professional learning for teachers. Traditional models of teacher education often fail to develop teachers with the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Qualitative Research, Case Studies
Canales-Vela, Viola – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The achievement of mathematics within Hispanic youth is of great concern across the nation. In order to improve student achievement in mathematics, the nature of a mathematics teacher's complex belief system must be understood (McGee & Wang, 2014). The purpose of this exploratory qualitative study is to investigate the K-5 bilingual teachers'…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Hispanic American Students, Bilingual Teachers, Qualitative Research
Speece, Lauren – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Immersion programs face a variety of challenges that are common to the field, such as lack of materials appropriate for students' language abilities, assessment, teacher recruitment and retention, balancing content and language, and relevant, high quality professional development for teachers. However, within specific micro-contexts, other issues…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Faculty Development, Teacher Role, Spanish
Fuller, Carrie – ProQuest LLC, 2018
While the academic and social success of two-way immersion programs in the public school sector is widely documented, little research has been conducted on how US Catholic school leaders have managed this whole school reform. Through an exploratory case study, the motivations and perceptions of 28 Catholic school administrators and change…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Catholic Schools, Change Agents, Administrator Attitudes
Schreiber, Martin J. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this case study explores the impact of an immersion experience to a least developed country on the vocation of lay teacher leaders in American Jesuit High Schools. Nine lay teacher leaders engaged in a four stage process of immersion from November 2009 to August 2010. The study employed the conceptual framework of Edward…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Immersion Programs, Lay Teachers, Teacher Leadership
Brady, Tina – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Increased interest by political leaders and parents in educating linguistically competent U.S. students to compete in the global society has emphasized the need for early foreign language learning for all students. Language education researchers have identified core elements of sustainable long-term successful programs that begin in elementary…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Immersion Programs, Standards
Amundson, Cielle – ProQuest LLC, 2012
In order to create long-term academic success for their students, it is critical for classroom teachers and administrators in language immersion settings to be effectively trained in best practices for teaching a second language. The purpose of this outcomes-based program evaluation was to explore the perceived effectiveness of the professional…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Program Effectiveness, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Programs
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