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Amanti, Cathy – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2019
Although Dual Language Immersion Education is growing in popularity in the United States, staffing these programs represents one of the greatest challenges for school administrators. Ironically, this is the case even for Spanish-English Dual Language Immersion programs despite the fact that the United States has the second highest number of…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, Bilingual Education, Immersion Programs, English (Second Language)
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Anzures, Aldo; Kvietok, Frances – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2023
Language revitalization efforts have been critiqued for creating and reproducing linguistic, epistemological, and pedagogical hierarchies that might run counter to a community's needs and interests. Drawing on a seven-year ethnographic and collaborative research with the Maya cultural promoters of the Caste War Museum in Tihosuco, Mexico, we…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, American Indian Languages, Ethnography, War
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Zheng, Yongyan – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2020
This paper examines the multilingual translation efforts of a group of university student volunteers during the COVID-19 outbreak in Shanghai. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews of the volunteer team leader, team members, and a local community health worker. Findings identified time constraints, limited language proficiency,…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Pandemics
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Bischoff, Shannon – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2017
The goal of this paper was to address the question, "Have the austerity measures enacted due to the global economic crisis impacted student enrollments at the University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez?" as Rodríguez (2011. "Social protest and the future of Higher Education in Puerto Rico." "Academe" 97(4).…
Descriptors: Barriers, English (Second Language), Private Colleges, Costs