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Trina D. Spencer; Megan S. Kirby; Anna R. Garcia; Becca Sturm – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
There are several benefits for Dual Language Learners (DLLs) when their home language is integrated into classroom instruction. For example, instruction in students' home language facilitates the learning of the new language more rapidly and supports bilingualism. One way to enhance young children's language learning is to engage families in home…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Native Language, Spanish
Li, Lok-Wah; McWayne, Christine M.; Mistry, Jayanthi – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2023
In the past decade, there has been a significant increase in the number of dual-language learning (DLL) preschool children. Guided by the literatures on home-school partnership and caregiver ethnotheories, the present study explored parents' and teachers' understandings of natural learning opportunities in DLL children's homes and surrounding…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Preschool Children, Immigrants
Pickard, Amy – Adult Literacy Education, 2022
This essay describes the decline in the number of participants enrolled in federally-funded adult basic education (ABE), adult secondary education (ASE), and adult English Language (EL) programs. Enrollment data since 1965 indicate a steep and consistent downward trend in the number of adults enrolling in these programs since the 1990s.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Basic Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Christine Fisher Vail – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Usage-based theories of language development underscore the importance of children using language to learn language. Few investigations have applied usage-based theories to dual language learners (DLLs), who comprise a growing share of children attending early education programs in the U.S. Three studies were carried out to investigate the role of…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Usage, Spanish, English (Second Language)
Eija Metsälä; Anne Karjalainen – European Journal of Education, 2025
Health care professional's qualifications earned in one country may not be recognised in another country and will require validation. The aim of the study was to investigate the experiences of immigrant healthcare professionals seeking the recognition of their education credentials in Finland. Altogether 11 professionals applying to a programme to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nurses, Immigrants, Qualifications
Guadalupe Diaz Lara; Megan M. McClelland – Grantee Submission, 2024
This study explored the relations between parental formal education, residential mobility, and children's school readiness in a sample of 509 Head Start children, 30% of whom were Spanish-speaking Dual Language Learners (DLLs). Additionally, it explored whether the relations between these demographic factors and school readiness varied as a…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Parent Background
Mari Riojas-Cortez; Mary Esther Soto Huerta; Andrea Greimel – Dimensions of Early Childhood, 2024
In the teaching of social studies, the use of funds of knowledge is beneficial for children to understand different experiences and perspectives. Families use funds of knowledge to teach their children what is important and valuable in their culture. In the case of Latino families, being bilingual is part of their history while for other families…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Literacy Education, Low Income Students, Social Services
Cassano, Christina M.; Paciga, Kathleen A. – Teachers College Press, 2023
Drawing provides opportunities for children to communicate their thoughts even when they do not have the vocabulary or the English proficiency to fully explain their ideas. This practical guide presents foundational information on the role of drawing in vocabulary development. The authors describe a research-based intervention designed to support…
Descriptors: Freehand Drawing, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Language Proficiency
Kiyomi Umezawa – Global Education Review, 2025
This paper presents a collaborative effort between a Head Start lead teacher and an educational scholar, focusing on a Head Start classroom in a non-traditional migration area in Pennsylvania. The joint initiative, called "Juntos," was undertaken to support children's bilingualism in a context where English is the dominant language. The…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Native Language, Spanish, Spanish Speaking
Pumpki Lei Su; Raúl Rojas; Jill de Villiers; Roberta Golinkoff; Aquiles Iglesias – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
Bilingual children demonstrate varying levels of proficiency in each of the two languages to which they are exposed. Even though it is widely acknowledged that bilingual children are not a homogenous group, existing studies on dual-language profiles in bilingual children have focused on expressive language profiles. In this study, we used the…
Descriptors: Receptive Language, Bilingualism, Spanish, English (Second Language)
Christopher DeCamp; Megan E. Hoffman; Darcey M. Allan; Brittany M. Morris; Christopher J. Lonigan – Grantee Submission, 2025
Despite frequent reliance on teacher and parent ratings of children's behavior for multi-informant assessment, agreement between teachers' and parents' ratings is low. This study examined the predictive utility of teacher and parent ratings for children's self-regulatory outcomes (i.e., executive function, continuous performance task) in four…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Teacher Attitudes, Parent Attitudes, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
Sarah Surrain; Stephanie M. Curenton; Cecilia Jarquín Tapia – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: Children's oral language skills lay the foundation for later literacy and can be fostered through responsive conversations with teachers. However, such conversations are rare in preschool, particularly between teachers and dual language learners (DLLs), or students who speak a minoritized language at home. DLLs benefit when…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Student Participation
Pontier, Ryan W. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2023
This study explores the collaborative process that two Korean-English and one Spanish-English bilingual Early Head Start family childcare educators, two instructional coaches, and the author engaged in as they co-created intentional bilingual approaches to supporting young emergent bilinguals. A thematic analysis of the design-based approach of…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Bilingual Education, Preschool Children, Native Language
Velásquez-Hoyos, Angela Patricia; Martínez-Burgos, Lizeth Andrea – HOW, 2023
This paper reports the results of a narrative inquiry study on exchange programs, intercultural awareness, and professional development in eight former participants of the Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant--FLTA--program. This study used written narratives to collect data from eight participants of the FLTA scholarship program who…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Assistants, International Educational Exchange
Kuenzi, Jeffrey J. – Congressional Research Service, 2020
The Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA; P.L. 89-329) authorizes numerous federal aid programs that provide support to both individuals pursuing a postsecondary education and institutions of higher education (IHEs). Title VI of the HEA authorizes programs and funding for the U.S. Department of Education (ED) to award grants in support of…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Higher Education, Federal Aid