NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 6 results Save | Export
Daniel Garzon – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The founding and inception of Coral Way's bilingual program marked the beginning of Miami's multilingual era, as well as the start of modern bilingual education in the U.S. As multilingual and multicultural Miami has evolved, bilingual programming has not remained a priority in the school district. This dissertation study examines how language…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Ethnography, Language Usage, Language Planning
Espana, Carla – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation examines a teacher's language ideologies, their impact on curriculum modifications and bilingual Latinx middle schoolers' storytelling, to understand how a bilingual pedagogy builds on their cultural and linguistic resources. This qualitative study was conducted in a sixth grade writing workshop class in New York City as the…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Writing Workshops, Second Language Learning, Language Attitudes
Dacres, Kristen Jackson – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study was to formulate and conduct a needs assessment identifying which present factors may contribute to the implementation of a bilingual education program using Jamaican Sign Language and Jamaican Standard English (JEBE) at The Caribbean Christian Centre for the Deaf, a non-governmental school serving deaf children in…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Language Planning, Deafness, Bilingual Education
Kelleher, Ann Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation explores complex positionings of Chinese heritage language (CHL) learners amid several intersecting discourses, including those around globalization, identity development and language policies. Using critical, qualitative methods, the study combines textual and site-based analyses, linking the language development experiences of…
Descriptors: Program Design, Bilingual Students, Applied Linguistics, Global Approach
Schroeder, Carlotta Dorothy – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Equal educational opportunity for English language learners (ELLs) has been a goal of the public educational system in the United States. Language policy reforms have increased accountability in order for schools to improve student achievement and measure the progress of ELLs. The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) requires assessment and…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Federal Legislation, Second Language Learning, Course Content
Herring, William Rodney, Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
A number of arguments appeared in the late-nineteenth-century United States about "correctness" in language, arguments for and against enforcing a standard of correctness and arguments about what should count as correct in language. Insofar as knowledge about and facility with "correct" linguistic usage could affect one's standing in the social…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Language Planning, Rhetoric, Linguistics