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Office of English Language Acquisition, US Department of Education, 2024
This report provides data on: (1) Number of English Learners Who Are American Indian/Alaska Native: School Year 2021-22; (2) Five States With the Highest Percent of English Learners Who Are American Indian/Alaska Native: School Year 2021-22; (3) Percent of American Indian/Alaska Native Students Who Were Identified as English Learners: School Year…
Descriptors: English Learners, American Indian Students, Alaska Natives, Demography
Ilana M. Umansky; Manuel Vazquez Cano; Lorna M. Porter – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2021
Federal law defines eligibility for English learner (EL) classification differently for Indigenous students compared to non-Indigenous students. Indigenous students, unlike non-Indigenous students, are not required to have a non-English home or primary language. A critical question, therefore, is how EL classification impacts Indigenous students'…
Descriptors: English Learners, Classification, Grade 3, Grade 4
Moses, Catherine – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Most bilingual programs are built around a clear separation between the two languages used throughout the school day. However, in bilingual research centers (BRCs), a key component of the Gomez and Gomez Dual Language Enrichment model, students can choose which language to use. This is what sparked my interest, because I wanted to understand more…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Elementary School Students, Eskimo Aleut Languages, English (Second Language)
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Grenoble, Lenore A.; Whaley, Lindsay J. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
This paper outlines a new model of language revitalisation that understands language to be a characteristic of a nexus of social activities rather than an independent object. Language use is one of an overall set of factors contributing to the wellbeing of a particular community. Our model treats language as one node (or a cluster of nodes) in a…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Language Usage, Language Role, Language Skill Attrition
Henke, Kristin Sattler – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This dissertation in teacher leadership represents original, independent research that investigated bilingual language instruction of an indigenous Alaskan group of students. Ethnographic research using qualitative and quantitative data was applied to develop an understanding of correlations between the value of English and Yup'ik language and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Alaska Natives, Eskimo Aleut Languages, English (Second Language)
Wyman, Leisy – Multilingual Matters, 2012
Detailing a decade of life and language use in a remote Alaskan Yup'ik community, Youth Culture, Language Endangerment and Linguistic Survivance provides rare insight into young people's language brokering and Indigenous people's contemporary linguistic ecologies. This book examines how two consecutive groups of youth in a Yup'ik village…
Descriptors: Youth, Alaska Natives, Language Usage, Language Maintenance