Translanguaging is a theory and pedagogy of language that understands multilingualism to be an inherently fluid, flexible, and dynamic practice (Garcia, 2009). As a pedagogy, a translanguaging stance aims to empower multilingual learners to draw on the entirety of their communicative repertoires to disrupt and transform classroom language borders…

Transition to school is a critical period in child development and has raised great concern among contemporary studies. However, most studies focus on vertical transition and only a few investigate vertical and horizontal transitions as a whole. To bridge the gap, this paper explores how an immigrant Chinese child makes the horizontal transition…

This article investigates the perspectives of seven adolescent Latinx students in relation to being bilingual and bicultural, and to their former K-8 elementary school, which offered a variety of culturally sustaining practices, including campus-wide use of both Spanish and English and a dual language program. Within this qualitative case study,…

Examined cultural frame switching among bicultural Greek children living in the Netherlands. Surveys of experimentally primed bicultural children and monocultural comparison children indicated that cultural identity salience impacted self-identification, social explanations, and attitudes toward family integrity and obedience. The condition of…

Bilingual education can be a great force in fostering educational change in America by providing a child with a full understanding of his cultural heritage and a deep respect for all it implies. Such a program treats the child whose mother tongue is other than English as advantaged, and involves the parent and the community in the fabric of the…

Argues that bicultural education is necessary in meeting the language needs of Mexican-American students. (RB)

Concludes that today's teacher needs to update her reading, listening, speaking, and writing skills in some language other than the native language to be an effective reading teacher. (RB)

This paper discusses peer teaching as one method of coping with larger classrooms, as a means for cultural and linguistic improvement in bilingual classes, and as a means for improving the use of a language experience approach to teaching reading. The paper stresses that (1) peer teaching requires careful organization and planning based on…

Designed for use in a bilingual program, this basic French reader centers around a trip to Canada. It contains reading selections, two short poems, the words and music of a song entitled "La cigale et la fourmi," and several oral and written exercises. (PMP)

Discusses the way that the concept of biculturalism was conveyed in a Title VII elementary school classroom with Mexican American and Anglo students. Holds that the concept of culture was oversimplified, emphasizing regalia (flags, posters, etc.), and obscuring social processes such as racial discrimination. (GC)

The social and linguistic reinforcement provided by the presence of a bilingual building principal contributes significantly to the growth and development of the non-English-speaking student. (LH)

Designed for use in a bilingual program, this elementary reader is the story of early French settlers in Acadia, the region now known as Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. The French text is illustrated with color drawings. (PMP)

Interviewed four Latina teachers regarding relationships between their bicultural identities and attitudes toward English and Spanish. Results illustrate how bilingual people cope with pressures of living in a society that promotes conformity to the dominant culture, highlighting the strong correlation between identification with Latino culture,…

The focus of this paper is the inquiry of bilingual children (Portuguese-English) and monolingual children (Portuguese) as they study a community with which they are unfamiliar. The setting was a data bank that was adapted to provide bilingual and monolingual children with a great deal of information about a community in the United States. Data…