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Bigelow, Martha – New Educator, 2011
The perspectives of immigrant youth are important to be aware of because they can reveal the powerful role society has in framing and forming the range of possibilities available to them. Culturally speaking, immigrant youth often face mismatches between home and school values, but they sometimes encounter intracultural struggles as well. This…
Descriptors: Afro Asiatic Languages, Immigrants, Role, Cultural Differences
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Bigelow, Martha; Delmas, Robert; Hansen, Kit; Tarone, Elaine – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2006
In this exploratory study, we examine the role of literacy in the acquisition of second-language (L2) oral skills through a partial replication of Jenefer Philp's (2003) study of recasts in native speaker (NS)-non-native speaker (NNS) interaction. The principal research question was the following: Is the ability to recall a recast related to the…
Descriptors: Literacy, Language Processing, Oral Language, Native Speakers