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José Manuel Martínez – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2017
Researchers have argued for an orientation to language as a resource that values bilingualism in mathematics classrooms. However, little is known about what mathematics teachers can do to translate a language-as-resource orientation into productive classroom practice. In this study, I analyze video data from two language immersion classrooms to…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Immersion Programs, Bilingualism, Mathematics Teachers
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Tedick, Diane J.; Young, Amy I. – Applied Linguistics, 2016
Two-way immersion (TWI) programs in the US are not reaching their minority language learning potential. While English home language (EHL) students develop functional proficiency, their minority language (e.g., Spanish) remains grammatically inaccurate. Spanish home language (SHL) students may also develop non-native-like aspects. Scholars suggest…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Immersion Programs, Grammar, Second Language Learning
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Stolte, Laurel – Bilingual Research Journal, 2017
This comparative case study (based on observational, interview, and picture-sort data) examines how teachers and students talk about cultural, linguistic, racial, and socioeconomic difference in two elementary Spanish-English two-way immersion programs. In addition, I analyze how those discourses are associated with both contextual conditions and…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Second Language Learning, Bilingual Education Programs, Case Studies
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Prasad, Gail – Intercultural Education, 2015
In an age of transnational mobility, there has been a growing recognition of the need for both English and French mainstream classroom teachers to be trained to teach increasingly plurilingual student populations. In this article, I begin by describing the context for an exploratory comparative and collaborative ethnographic action research study…
Descriptors: French, English, Multilingualism, Ethnography
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Culligan, Karla – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2010
This phenomenological study explores students' decision-making about whether to remain in an optional French immersion (FI) mathematics course in Grade 11, as well as students' subsequent experiences in their mathematics course of choice. Interview data were collected from 10 students who remained in FI mathematics and from six students who did…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, French, Decision Making, Immersion Programs
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Schwabsky, Nitza – Journal of School Leadership, 2013
The present study examines the nonroutine problems that eight Anglo-American principals encountered in managing three elementary bilingual immersion schools in the Northwest United States. Using qualitative inquiry to collect data, I employed the multisited ethnographic research model. The principals reported nonroutine problems in the following…
Descriptors: Principals, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Education Programs, Immersion Programs
Martinez, Martha I. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Two-way immersion (TWI) programs teach English Learners (ELs) and native English speakers in the same classroom using both languages in an immersion approach. Studies suggest that TWI programs result in greater student integration, thus providing a promising alternative for Spanish speaking ELs, who are frequently concentrated in high poverty,…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Focus Groups, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Zelazo, Janice – 1995
This study investigated the nature of and factors in the involvement of both Spanish-speaking and English-speaking parents in an elementary school specializing in two-way bilingual education. The researcher observed parents and teachers in interaction, reviewed school documents, and interviewed parents, families, and school staff, some in short…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Economic Factors, Educational Background, Elementary Education
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Pelletier, Janette – Language and Education, 1999
Extends the research on academic outcomes of second-language immersion schooling by comparing children's early experiences in and understanding of regular and French-immersion kindergartners through script analysis. Sixty-four female and 56 male kindergarten children were asked to tell about kindergarten from the time they got to school until the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English, Foreign Countries, French
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Pelletier, Janette – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1998
Through interviews and direct observation, examined how 120 Toronto (Ontario) children understand and experience kindergarten in ten English first-language (L1) and ten French immersion second-language (L2) classes. Results indicate the similarities between the groups were greater than the differences, contradicting suggestions that L2 immersion…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Attitudes, English, Foreign Countries
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Caldas, Stephen J.; Caron-Caldas, Suzanne – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 1999
Examines developing cultural and linguistic identities of three French/English bilingual children reared in two linguistic cultures: American and Quebecois. Results indicate the adolescent boy, who speaks more English than French, identifies with his American peers, from whom he conceals his bilingualism. The twin girls, in a French-immersion…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Bilingualism, Case Studies, Children