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M. Garrett Delavan Ed.; Juan A. Freire Ed.; Kate Menken Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2024
This volume proposes solutions to the gentrification of dual language, bilingual and immersion education by examining how it operates across diverse school and community contexts. It brings together studies in a number of areas including instruction, curriculum development, classroom interaction, school leadership, parent and community engagement,…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Bilingual Education Programs, Curriculum Development, Instructional Leadership
Marcela Ossa Parra; Patrick Proctor – Journal of Education, 2023
Translanguaging pedagogy is an approach to educational equity that harnesses multilingual learners' communicative repertoires (e.g., home languages, non-standard varieties, and gestures) by strategically incorporating them in the classroom to ensure students' active participation and meaningful learning. This paper proposes a research-informed…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning, Native Language, Multilingualism
Marjorie Ceballos; Joyce W. Nutta – Education Leadership Review, 2022
The purpose of this practice to theory article is to present educational leaders with critical considerations for multimedia instructional content for emergent bilinguals (EBs) in dual language programs and other EB academic settings. EBs' academic development and achievement are advanced when multimedia instruction is intentionally designed to…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Multimedia Materials
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Ozfidan, Burhan; Burlbaw, Lynn M. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2021
The purpose of this study is to discuss the benefits of developing a bilingual education program and what this program can offer regarding concerns related to the lives of minority people in Turkey. Explanatory sequential mixed method was used for this study. The first phase of this study was a survey that measured the perspectives of educators…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Educational Benefits, Minority Group Students, Program Development
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Zhang, Kaili C. – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2019
This article describes the practical application of an innovative bilingual preschool program that involves two-way immersion of both English and Chinese in classrooms. This has not been written about extensively, especially in the context of early childhood classrooms in Asian countries. The primary goal of the two-way immersion kindergarten is…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Bilingual Education Programs, Kindergarten, Foreign Countries
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Infante, Paolo; Licona, Peter R. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
This article investigates translanguaging as pedagogy in an English/Spanish dual language middle school science classroom as teacher and students engage in scientific argumentation about issues of biodiversity. Drawing from literature on bilingual education, bilingualism, linguistically responsive teaching, and scientific argumentation, we…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Bilingual Education, Teaching Methods, Code Switching (Language)
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Encarnación Mosquera, Carmelina – HOW, 2021
Self-assessment for accreditation purposes requires follow-up of graduates and feedback with academic programs. As part of the improvement actions, this study was done to characterize graduates' methodologies in English language teaching. The data, gathered through questionnaires, showed that graduates privilege the communicative and eclectic…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Modern Languages
Fuller, Carrie – ProQuest LLC, 2018
While the academic and social success of two-way immersion programs in the public school sector is widely documented, little research has been conducted on how US Catholic school leaders have managed this whole school reform. Through an exploratory case study, the motivations and perceptions of 28 Catholic school administrators and change…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Catholic Schools, Change Agents, Administrator Attitudes
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Keefer, Natalie; Lopez, Julia; Young, Jyhane; Haj-Broussard, Michelle – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2020
At the intersection of social studies and world language curricula are opportunities to explore students' prior learning with vocabulary-rich content designed to support language acquisition goals. "Funds of knowledge" is defined as socio-cultural, economic, and historical knowledge from home and community settings. The instructional…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Spanish Speaking, Prior Learning, Teaching Methods
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Chimbutane, Feliciano; Benson, Carol – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2012
This article describes how 16 Mozambican languages--and counting--have been brought into primary education in Mozambique through a 2002 curriculum reform, and how they are faring in light of tensions between general aspirations for dominant languages and public demand for bilingual education. Bilingual education based on learners' home languages,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Education Programs
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Reynolds-Young, Danielle; Hood, Sally – ORTESOL Journal, 2014
Although course assignments require English as a Second Language (ESL) teacher candidates to design activities, performance assessments, and lessons that balance the teaching of the English language and academic content, the ESL teacher candidates remain perplexed as to how to teach without a prescribed curriculum. The answer is challenging, given…
Descriptors: Course Content, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Duke, Karen; Mabbott, Ann – 2001
School professionals are often dissatisfied with the current model of English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) elementary education. The typical 30-45 minute pull-out session often frustrates ESL teachers because of the amount of time is inadequate. This causes frustration among the mainstream teachers because of the class time the ESL learners miss.…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, English (Second Language)
Bidot, Haydee Marie; And Others – 1986
In designing a curriculum to assist children in learning English as a second language (ESL), a thorough understanding of the differences between the first and second languages is essential. With such an understanding, problems and concepts that may cause language interference and learning difficulties can be identified and an appropriate…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian Languages, Bilingual Education Programs, Choctaw
Berney, Tomi D.; Alvarez, Rosalyn – 1990
This project provided 360 students at South Bronx High School (New York) with instruction in English as a Second Language (ESL); Native Language Arts (NLA); the bilingual content area subjects of mathematics, science, and social studies; and computer literacy. The goal of the project was to provide instructional and support services to…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Computer Literacy, Curriculum Development, English (Second Language)
Corsetti, Maria – Multicultural Teaching to Combat Racism in School and Community, 1993
Describes the second-language and native language maintenance programs of Brunswick North Primary School (Australia), a school that offers its students opportunities to learn Turkish, Italian, Greek, or Arabic. An integrated curriculum ensures that students acquire or maintain a language other than English. (SLD)
Descriptors: Arabic, Bilingual Education Programs, Community Programs, Cultural Differences
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