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Mary Hudgens Henderson – Journal of Multilingual Education Research, 2025
Critical Language Awareness (CLA) instruction can and should be a part of K-12 education. This study reports on a CLA unit taught to Spanish-English bilingual 5th graders enrolled in a dual language bilingual classroom in the southwest U.S. Scores from a pretest and three posttests administered throughout the school year were compared to peer…
Descriptors: Spanish, English (Second Language), Bilingualism, Grade 5
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Robin E. Harvey; Patricia J. Brooks – Foreign Language Annals, 2025
This study aimed to further understanding of immersion language development by examining in-class freewriting, classroom-assessed reading, and year-end STAMP 4Se proficiency levels in 4th-grade Chinese immersion over an academic year. Specifically, we aimed to understand (1) how learners express themselves in freewriting, (2) growth in freewriting…
Descriptors: Chinese, Immersion Programs, Grade 4, Elementary School Students
Alissa M. Stuart – ProQuest LLC, 2024
While America is becoming increasingly diverse, educational stakeholders seek programs that address varied language and cultural needs, which is reflected by the growing popularity of dual language immersion (DLI) programs in recent decades. The problem is an extensively persistent academic achievement gap between students with native English and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Immersion Programs, Academic Achievement, English Language Learners
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Mengying Liu; Elaine Tarone – Modern Language Journal, 2024
Chinese immersion programs have been increasingly popular in US schools. However, we have insufficient data on young English-speaking children's acquisition of Chinese as a second language in these programs, and specifically on social contextual variables systematically promoting or hindering Chinese language use. Taking a variationist…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Languages, Language Usage, Second Language Learning
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Giselle Martinez Negrette – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2024
Dual language immersion (DLI) programs were developed in the U.S. with the expressed goal of supporting intercultural connections, bilingualism, biliteracy, and respect for diversity. However, these programs are still influenced by broader social ideas and power dynamics. From this perspective, this year-long ethnographic case study uses a…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Bilingual Education Programs, Sociocultural Patterns, Kindergarten
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Camila Morales – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2025
This paper presents evidence of the effects of dual language immersion (DLI) programs on the academic outcomes of students in elementary grades. Leveraging enrollment lotteries from four cohorts of DLI applicants across 10 oversubscribed programs, analyses estimate the intent-to-treat effect of access to bilingual education on reading and math…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Immersion Programs, Academic Achievement, Reading Achievement
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Rob Hammel – Odyssey: New Directions in Deaf Education, 2024
In October 2023, a new deaf student, "Zuri," showed up in my second grade classroom. This often happens. Parents move into and out of the district for work, and it is common to get a new student in the middle of the year without warning. Zuri's eyes were wide when she came into the classroom, and she looked scared. Who were all these…
Descriptors: Deafness, Grade 2, Immersion Programs, Language Usage
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Gina L. Harrison; Lila Boulet – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2024
This study examined whether the assessment of executive function (EF) added a unique contribution to second language (L2) reading comprehension in children in French immersion. Participants were 8- to 9-year old children who completed a collection of measures assessing French reading (i.e., word reading, decoding, and reading comprehension ) and…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Second Language Learning, French, Immersion Programs
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Newell, Kirsten W.; Kember, Jessie; Zinn, Gesa – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2022
This brief report summarizes the development and psychometric properties of German reading fluency passages as compared to English reading fluency passages for immersion language learners. Results indicated that scores from German language reading fluency passages alone were (a) somewhat less reliable than scores from English publisher-developed…
Descriptors: German, Reading Fluency, Oral Reading, Immersion Programs
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Buser, Melanie; Melfi, Giuseppe – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
The "Filière Bilingue" (FiBi) is a Swiss public two-way immersion program integrating French-speaking, German-speaking and allophone learners (having neither French nor German as an L1) in each class. Located in the bilingual city of Biel/ Bienne, the "diglossic" situation represented by the use of Swiss German and standard…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, French, German, Immersion Programs
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Keshavarz, Mohammad Hossein; Keshavarz, Avishan – MEXTESOL Journal, 2022
There is no dearth of studies on pronunciation problems of students of English as a Foreign Language (EFL); however, research on pronunciation problems of young learners is scarce. Therefore, to fill this research gap, the present quasiexperimental study aimed at investigating the effect of L2 input on the pronunciation performance of young…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Pronunciation, Elementary School Students
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Mariana Lima Becker; Gabrielle Oliveira – Teachers College Record, 2024
Background: Guidelines for the successful implementation of two-way dual language bilingual education (DLBE) programs foreground the role of program leadership, hiring and preparing culturally and linguistically competent teachers, family involvement, and the alignment between curriculum, assessments, and instruction in both languages. Absent in…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Immigrants, Latin Americans, Portuguese
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Oliveira, Gabrielle; Lima Becker, Mariana; Jeon, Ahrum – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2021
This article explores Brazilian immigrant parents' perspectives about a newly established Two-Way Immersion (TWI) program in their community. The analysis of parental answers to a family engagement survey, using the framework of investment, reveals that the Brazilian parents in our sample assembled narratives of gratitude through overt statements…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Parent Attitudes, Psychological Patterns, Immersion Programs
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Krenca, Klaudia; Cain, Kate; Marinova-Todd, Stefka; Chen, Xi – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2023
Purpose: This study investigated the extent to which comprehension monitoring in children's first and second language predicts reading comprehension. Method: Children's ability to detect inconsistencies in orally presented stories was measured by response to a judgment question about whether the story made sense and by the identification of the…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Progress Monitoring, French, Second Language Learning
Jennifer Marie Walsh – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this qualitative inquiry was to explore the implementation of the third pillar of dual language education (DLE), sociocultural competence. Teachers' perceptions of the structures both supporting and challenging implementation of the pillar were examined. An Elementary (K-5) two-way immersion DLE Program in the lower Hudson Valley…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Self Concept, Teacher Attitudes, Elementary School Teachers
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