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Martin, David Ray – ProQuest LLC, 2017
One of the biggest concerns educational institutions face is helping teachers fit into and adjust to the dynamics of the ever-changing teaching environment. What often remains a mystery is how the identity trajectories of mid-career teachers have contributed to their longevity in the field. Also important today is why teachers might choose to…
Descriptors: English Teachers, Professional Identity, Career Development, Experienced Teachers
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Arnett, Katy; Mady, Callie – Exceptionality Education International, 2017
Responding to the needs of and/or including students with different need profiles has been an area of focus within Canadian French Second Language (FSL) education for many years. This study draws on quantitative data from two questionnaires (administered before and after Canadian teacher candidates in FSL education completed their practica) and on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, French, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Cao, Yuan – Online Submission, 2013
This study enlisted language immersion practitioners in highlighting and exploring the issues and challenges that accompany language immersion education. Comprehensive focused personal interviews of preschool Mandarin Chinese language immersion educators in a private school provided the basis of the study. The research literature reviewed…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Immersion Programs, Preschool Children, Private Schools
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Ní Dhiorbháin, Aisling; Ó Duibhir, Pádraig – Language Awareness, 2017
This article focuses on qualitative self-report data from a mixed-methods study which investigated Grade 5 and 6 (n = 274), 11-12-year-old, Irish-medium (IM) immersion students' improvement in linguistic accuracy in response to an explicit-inductive approach to form-focused instruction (FFI). A series of typographically enhanced PowerPoint slides…
Descriptors: Grammar, Teaching Methods, Irish, Accuracy
Jia, Hongyi – ProQuest LLC, 2017
In the present day Mandarin Chinese has become a commonly taught language in the U.S. Mandarin is widely taught in colleges and universities; K-12 Chinese programs, including immersion programs, have also grown rapidly. However, to date little research has been conducted on the latter programs. This study examines immersion programs in elementary…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Mandarin Chinese, Immersion Programs, Elementary School Students
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Rocque, Ryan; Ferrin, Scott; Hite, Julie M.; Randall, Vance – Foreign Language Annals, 2016
This study considers the opinions of dual immersion elementary school principals in investigating the following research questions: (1) What do dual immersion principals identify as the skills and traits for the school leader that lead to the principal's success in a dual immersion context? and (2) What were the differences of opinion, if any,…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Second Language Learning, Elementary School Students, Principals
Betters, Jennifer R. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
In the past century, French has shifted from being the native language of many Louisianans to being an endangered dialect. Since the creation of the state agency CODOFIL (Council for the Development of French in Louisiana) in the 1960's, efforts have been made to revitalize French in Louisiana, and since the 1980's, some parishes have offered…
Descriptors: French, Immersion Programs, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Siekmann, Sabine; Webster, Joan Parker; Samson, Sally Angass'aq; Moses, Catherine Keggutailnguq – Cogent Education, 2017
Culturally Responsive Education has been widely proposed as a mechanism to improve the academic achievement of minority and Indigenous populations. Instruction in heritage languages has been shown to produce desirable outcomes both on linguistic and academic measures. However, culturally responsive and immersion instruction faces a number of…
Descriptors: Material Development, Culturally Relevant Education, Academic Achievement, Heritage Education
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DePalma, Renée – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2015
This study investigates the self-reported experiences of students participating in a Galician language and culture course. Galician, a language historically spoken in northwestern Spain, has been losing ground with respect to Spanish, particularly in urban areas and among the younger generations. The research specifically focuses on informal…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Second Language Learning, Interviews, Student Attitudes
Wright, Adrienne C. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Spanish-speaking parents choose to enroll their children in either an English only or English-Spanish dual immersion program when presented with both choices. This ethnographic study explored parent's perceptions of the purpose, advantages, and disadvantages of learning in school in English only or in a dual English-Spanish. Through focus group…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Acculturation
Okura, Eve K. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation presents the findings from interviews conducted with language nest workers, teachers, language nest coordinators, administrators of language revitalization programs, principals and directors of language immersion schools that work in close proximity with language nests, and linguists involved in language revitalization efforts.…
Descriptors: Interviews, Language Maintenance, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning
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Jing, Huang; Junying, Zhang – English Language Teaching, 2016
Anxiety experienced in the course of learning a foreign language is specific and unique (Horwitz et al., 1986; MacIntyre & Gardner, 1989). This paper reports a study on anxiety in Chinese undergraduate non-English majors at three different proficiency levels in a three-week immersion summer camp. By way of survey, interviews, reflective…
Descriptors: Anxiety, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Asians
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Tedick, Diane J.; Young, Amy I. – Applied Linguistics, 2016
Two-way immersion (TWI) programs in the US are not reaching their minority language learning potential. While English home language (EHL) students develop functional proficiency, their minority language (e.g., Spanish) remains grammatically inaccurate. Spanish home language (SHL) students may also develop non-native-like aspects. Scholars suggest…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Immersion Programs, Grammar, Second Language Learning
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Chesnut, Colleen – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 2015
This qualitative study examined dual immersion teachers' identities as they engaged in policy implementation within their school, collaborating in professional learning communities (PLC) with one-way immersion teachers. Data derived from participant observation, interviews, and interpersonal process recall were analyzed through a theoretical lens…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Prasad, Gail – Intercultural Education, 2015
In an age of transnational mobility, there has been a growing recognition of the need for both English and French mainstream classroom teachers to be trained to teach increasingly plurilingual student populations. In this article, I begin by describing the context for an exploratory comparative and collaborative ethnographic action research study…
Descriptors: French, English, Multilingualism, Ethnography
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