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Christine Fisher Vail – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Usage-based theories of language development underscore the importance of children using language to learn language. Few investigations have applied usage-based theories to dual language learners (DLLs), who comprise a growing share of children attending early education programs in the U.S. Three studies were carried out to investigate the role of…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Usage, Spanish, English (Second Language)
Sarah Surrain; Stephanie M. Curenton; Cecilia Jarquín Tapia – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: Children's oral language skills lay the foundation for later literacy and can be fostered through responsive conversations with teachers. However, such conversations are rare in preschool, particularly between teachers and dual language learners (DLLs), or students who speak a minoritized language at home. DLLs benefit when…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Student Participation
Pontier, Ryan W. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2023
This study explores the collaborative process that two Korean-English and one Spanish-English bilingual Early Head Start family childcare educators, two instructional coaches, and the author engaged in as they co-created intentional bilingual approaches to supporting young emergent bilinguals. A thematic analysis of the design-based approach of…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Bilingual Education, Preschool Children, Native Language
Sarah Surrain; Stephanie M. Curenton; Cecilia Jarquín Tapiab – Grantee Submission, 2022
Research Findings: Children's oral language skills lay the foundation for later literacy and can be fostered through responsive conversations with teachers. However, such conversations are rare in preschool, particularly between teachers and dual language learners (DLLs), or students who speak a minoritized language at home. DLLs benefit when…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Student Participation
Rumper, Brooke; Frechette, Elizabeth; Greenfield, Daryl B.; Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy – Education Sciences, 2021
The present study examined the roles that language of assessment, language dominance, and teacher language use during instruction play in Dual Language Learner (DLL) science scores. A total of 255 Head Start DLL children were assessed on equated science assessments in English and Spanish. First overall differences between the two languages were…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Bilingual Education, Preschool Children, Science Achievement
Halpin, Emily; Melzi, Gigliana – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
The purpose of this study was to explore the use of code-switching in the narratives of dual-language Latino preschoolers, specifically by examining its incidence, types, functions, and grammaticality. Previous work has investigated code-switching in younger children and in older children and adults, but relatively little work has investigated…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Bilingualism, Language Usage, Personal Narratives
Sembiante, Sabrina F.; Yeomans-Maldonado, Gloria; Johanson, Megan; Justice, Laura – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: We examined the amount of preschool lead/assistant teachers' English/Spanish language use and relations between quality of teacher-child interactions, and Dual Language Learners' (DLLs) English/Spanish bilingual vocabulary in 31 English-medium Head Start classrooms. Measures in this study included (a) children's conceptual…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Bilingualism, Bilingual Teachers, Teacher Student Relationship
Li, Wendy; De Costa, Peter I. – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2021
The global spread of English has made it the dominant language in academic publishing (Hyland, Ken. 2015. "Academic Publishing: Issues and Challenges in the Construction of Knowledge." Oxford: Oxford University Press). Influenced by enterprise culture, scholars from peripheral non-Western countries face mounting pressure to publish in…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Writing for Publication, Foreign Nationals, International Cooperation
Elisa B. Garcia – Grantee Submission, 2018
Using a nationally representative sample of dual language learners (DLLs) attending Head Start, this study investigated how the language used for instruction and the proportion of DLLs in the class was associated with English and Spanish receptive vocabulary development between the fall and spring (n = 531). Based on teacher report of the language…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Elisa B. Garcia – ProQuest LLC, 2017
In recent decades, the share of ethnically and linguistically diverse children enrolled in schools in the United States has exponentially increased. Despite the growing representation of ethnic minority and dual language learner (DLL) children, there is persistent evidence of early vocabulary gaps between low-income and DLL children and their…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Executive Function, Preschool Education, Spanish