We investigated the role of bilingual parents' language proficiency in their reports of their children's vocabulary size. Sixty-four Spanish-English bilingual mothers whose L1 was Spanish reported their bilingual children's English and Spanish vocabularies and 37 monolingual L1 English-speaking mothers reported their monolingual children's English…

Federal law requires school health leaders to ensure meaningful access to language resources to promote optimal health and education outcomes. This paper aims to inform all stakeholders, including decision-makers, about the importance of developing language access plans and policies. Multiple sources and legal guidelines provide a comprehensive…

This research provides information toward answering the question of whether bilingual studies at the university level might be elitist. This is a recurring research topic in terms of using English for nonlanguage instruction at the primary and secondary levels, but very few studies refer to university education. We seek to fill that gap in the…

There is a body of literature reporting that pre-K programs have significantly large effects on student academic performance in later years. Also, economically disadvantaged students who attended high-quality public pre-K programs were reported to have better academic outcomes than those who attended lower-quality programs. This study conducted…

Employing ethnography and the theoretical paradigm of "language ideology" (Silverstein, M. 1979. "Language structure and linguistic ideology." In "The Elements: A Parasession on Linguistic Units and Levels," edited by P. Clyne, W. Hanks, and H. Carol, 193-247. Chicago Linguistic Society), this article examines how…

The number of school-aged students with diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds is increasing across the United States. This survey identifies strategies school nurses use for communicating to families with limited English proficiency and describes recommendations to improve language needs. The online survey was completed by K-12 school nurses…

Educational interpreters are not neutral mediators of messages. In education, they are policy brokers whose translations can reflect their own social identities and often align with larger social power dynamics, including deficit perspectives of racialized multilingual people. In U.S. schools, language minoritized parents have the right to make…

Integrating emergent bilingual students into K-12 mainstream classrooms where linguistic support is not provided has the potential to lead to their academic underperformance. This is because the content is delivered in English, which may not be understandable to immigrant students with limited English proficiency, possibly leading to psychological…

This paper explores how "English learners (ELs)" or who we prefer to call "multilingual learners" are labeled and positioned in policy documents and leading education research documents respectively. Attending to the urgent call for serving the growing number of linguistically and culturally diverse learners, this study delves…

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) administers the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), with the mission to increase food security and reduce hunger. The study summarized here seeks to understand how the 53 SNAP State agencies -- 50 States, District of Columbia (DC), Guam, the U.S. Virgin…

Purpose: This paper explores the role that participatory budgeting (PB) plays in enhancing emotional and social well-being through the commissioning, design, delivery of and participation in a drama and theatre intervention in a deprived community in North London. Design/methodology/approach: A qualitative case study methodology employing…

This report provides findings on language access policies, plans, and procedures in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) agencies in four States at the State and local agency levels: (1) Massachusetts, (2) New Mexico, (3) North Carolina, and (4) Washington. The study team conducted case studies in each site--interviewing State and…

Home visiting has proven to be an effective tool in supporting children's school readiness, health, and socioemotional development. For newcomer, immigrant, and refugee families, home visiting can also offer integration-related supports, such as helping parents navigate unfamiliar early childhood, elementary and secondary education, health, and…

Purpose: The paper reports how lesson study helped to make the learning of students with limited English competencies visible in "Content and Language Integrated Learning" (CLIL). Design/methodology/approach: The two lesson study cycles took place in a Swiss primary school with a focus on three case pupils each with heterogeneous…

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Nutrition Assistance Program (NAP) Language Study is providing the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) with a comprehensive understanding of the language landscapes that SNAP and NAP agencies operate in as well as the policy and operations landscapes for limited English proficiency (LEP)…