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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
Oliveira, Gabrielle; Chang-Bacon, Chris K.; Cho, Eunhye; Baez-Cruz, Maria – Bilingual Research Journal, 2020
As the popularity of two-way immersion (TWI) programs increases across the U.S., recent scholarship has drawn attention to inequities in who benefits from these programs and how they are implemented. These findings have drawn the field's attention to the instrumental part played by particular stakeholders in TWI program implementation. While this…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Portuguese, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
