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Direct linkOliveira, Gabrielle; Lima Becker, Mariana; Chang-Bacon, Chris K. – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2020
Recent scholarship reveals how English can be disproportionately privileged in dual language bilingual education (DLBE) programming (Cervantes-Soon et al., 2017; Valdés, 1997). Through a program designed to serve Brazilian (im)migrant populations, this study expands the scope of DLBE research. This study took place in the U.S. state of…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Equal Education, Immigrants, Portuguese
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
Lima Becker, Mariana; Oliveira, Gabrielle – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2023
Concurrent with the rise in U.S. neo-nationalism is the growing influx of im/migrant children in the nation's schools. This article explores how a group of eight K-3 Brazilian bilingual teachers in a Portuguese-English Two-Way Immersion (TWI) program in the United States interact with neo-nationalist discourses pertaining to the theme of…
Descriptors: Bilingual Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Primary Education, Foreign Countries
Oliveira, Gabrielle; Lima Becker, Mariana; Segel, Marisa – Multicultural Perspectives, 2021
The phrase "ready to learn" has been widely used and researched by scholars, policy makers, and education practitioners. School readiness, as a construct, has referred to the basic skills that children need to transition to elementary school. However, there is no consensus on which basic skills students should possess when entering…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Latin Americans, Elementary School Students, Immigrants
Lima Becker, Mariana; Chang-Bacon, Chris K.; Oliveira, Gabrielle – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
This study documents the notion of unilateral translanguaging--the configuration of translanguaging spaces to disproportionately privilege a dominant language or its speakers. We analyze four teachers' translanguaging practices in a Portuguese-English two-way immersion (TWI) program in the United States. Rather than focusing on whether and how…
Descriptors: Portuguese, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
