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Anna Marrero Rivera – ProQuest LLC, 2024
As the Hispanic population in the United States continues to grow, Spanish teachers are increasingly responsible for incorporating heritage language (HL) research and practice into their curriculum design. However, many language teacher preparation programs in the country are not tailored to equip future HL educators, focusing instead on second…
Descriptors: Spanish, Language Teachers, Native Language Instruction, Hispanic American Students
Alexander Giraldo Poveda – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This multiple case study investigates the professional identities of three dual language immersion (DLI) teachers after they graduate from a teacher education program (TEP) that emphasizes DLI pedagogies. I use the communities of practice framework (Wenger, 1998), the portraiture methodology (Lawrence-Lightfoot, 1983, 1994; Lawrence-Lightfoot…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Bilingual Education, Teacher Attitudes, Communities of Practice
Slocum, Sheryl – ProQuest LLC, 2013
In spite of growing numbers in high schools and colleges, US-resident adolescent bilingual learners, sometimes termed "English as a second language" (ESL) or "Generation 1.5," are not succeeding academically in proportion to their monolingual English-speaking peers. This achievement gap is evident in their writing as they enter…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, English (Second Language), Achievement Gap, Native Language