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Danlei Chen – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This study examined how parents, teachers, and administrators conceptualised dual-language immersion (DLI) education and its goals at Bobcat Canyon School (BCS, pseudonym), a private preschool in the Southwestern USA where 64% students were White and 36% were students of colour. Through interviews with 15 parents, eight teachers, and two school…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Bilingual Education Programs, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Relaño-Pastor, Ana Maria; Fernández-Barrera, Alicia – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2019
This article focuses on the 'native speaker effects' (Doerr, N. M., ed. 2009. "The Native Speaker Concept: Ethnographic Investigations of Native Speaker Effects." Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter) pertaining to the construction of eliteness in Spanish-English CLIL-type bilingual programmes in the autonomous community of Castilla-La Mancha…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, Spanish, Bilingual Education Programs, Language of Instruction
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Lindholm-Leary, Kathryn; Hernandez, Ana – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2011
This article examines the language proficiency and achievement outcomes of Latino students enrolled in a dual language programme who varied by language proficiency (Native English speakers, Current English Language Learners--ELLs, Fluent English Proficient/Previous ELLs). Most previous research has not disaggregated Latino students, especially…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Parent Background, Educational Attainment, Second Language Learning
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Milk, Robert D.; Lopez, Luis Enrique – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1986
While bilingual education programs in Peru are promoted as educational alternatives, designed for a specific group with the intention of strengthening the community's capacity to achieve its own goals, Texas programs are "substitute" programs to compensate for presumed deficits until the student can function in a "regular"…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education