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Beaudrie, Sara M. – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2018
Researchers have studied academic self-concept and its relationship to academic achievement extensively, but not in the Spanish heritage language context. Using measures of reading, writing, and spelling performance, I investigate the relation between self-concept and performance and whether self-concept can predict performance scores. I obtained…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Spanish, Native Language, Reading Achievement
Doiz, Aintzane; Lasagabaster, David; Sierra, Juan Manuel – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2014
The learning of prestigious international languages becomes a process fraught with tensions in multilingual settings. The process of internationalisation in many universities has led to the spread of English-medium instruction (EMI), which tends to raise linguistic debates particularly in the case of bilingual institutions. However, and despite a…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Multilingualism
Garcia, Sara S.; Garcia, Christina Favela – CATESOL Journal, 2016
This article recounts a narrative of professional transformation inspired by the works of Paulo Freire and Gloria Ladson-Billings and advanced by a participatory action research (PAR) project. The PAR team for this case study, consisting of the university teacher educator as a "coach" and a high school classroom teacher along with her…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Culturally Relevant Education, Teacher Educators, Teaching Methods
Cuza, Alejandro; Frank, Joshua – Heritage Language Journal, 2011
This study examines the role of transfer from English in the acquisition of double-que questions in Spanish among 17 heritage speakers in the US. Results from an elicited production task, an acceptability judgment task and a preference task revealed significant difficulties in the production and acceptability of double-"que" questions. In contrast…
Descriptors: Semantics, Syntax, Spanish, Heritage Education
Martinez, Glenn; Schwartz, Adam – Heritage Language Journal, 2012
Critical approaches to Spanish heritage language (SHL) pedagogy have called for more meaningful engagement with heritage language communities (Leeman, 2005). In a recent survey, furthermore, SHL students expressed a desire for more community-based activities in SHL curricula (Beaudrie, Ducar, & Relano-Pastor, 2009). This paper reports on the…
Descriptors: Public Health, Language Maintenance, Patients, Language Variation
Lowther Pereira, Kelly Anne – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation examines the negotiation of language ideologies and identity construction amongst university intermediate level Spanish Heritage Language (SHL) learners in the U.S. Southwest. Combining sociolinguistic and ethnographic methods with discourse analysis, this study seeks to provide deeper insight into the linguistic practices and…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Ideology, Participant Observation, Focus Groups
Block, Nicholas – Bilingual Research Journal, 2011
Forty initially English-dominant Latino students in four 90:10 Spanish two-way dual-immersion programs and 62 of their peers in mainstream English programs were studied to find out if their attitudes toward Spanish and Spanish-dominant individuals differ. Significant differences were found on many variables, with two-way dual-immersion students…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Immersion Programs, Biculturalism, Statistical Significance
Mikulski, Ariana M. – Heritage Language Journal, 2010
The present study investigates heritage learners' recognition of native-like and non-native-like mood selection in Spanish volitional constructions along two dimensions: age of onset of bilingualism in English (operationalized as age of arrival) and language use. Thirty-two heritage learners completed a grammaticality judgment (GJ) and an editing…
Descriptors: Children, Bilingualism, Age, Heritage Education
Ramos, Francisco – Bilingual Research Journal, 2005
Five Spanish teachers working in California elementary schools participated in this project. Although they were assigned to teach in mainstream English programs, they noticed that some of the Latino students in their classrooms were officially classified as English language learners (ELLs) and, as such, had difficulties understanding their…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Language Teachers, Spanish, English (Second Language)

Lasagabaster, David – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 1998
Investigated whether the threshold-level hypothesis could be applied to a three-language-in-contact school situation. Looks at one of these three-language-in-contact school situations in the Basque Country of Spain, a bilingual community where both Spanish and Basque are official languages and are therefore taught in school. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Basque, Bilingualism, Elementary Education, English (Second Language)
Musante, Patricia – 1993
This report presents an evaluation of the Effective Transition (ET) project, an Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title VII-funded project in its second year of operation at Lafayette High School and Pershing Intermediate School in Brooklyn, New York. The project served a total of 300 students of limited English proficiency who were native…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Bilingual Education Programs, Chinese
Lynch, Joanne – 1993
This report presents an evaluation of the Transitional Bilingual Education Project (TBEP), an Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title VII-funded project in its third year of operation at P.S. 9 and P.S. 133 in Brooklyn, New York. The project served 128 limited English proficient students, focusing on the provision of structured English and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Education Programs
Metropolitan Consortium of Lead Speech-Language Pathologists, Atlanta, GA. – 1990
Part 154 of the Regulations of New York State's Commissioner of Education prescribes requirements for districts relative to the education of pupils with limited English proficiency. The guidelines provided here are to assist school districts in developing and implementing programs consistent with the law and regulations. Chapters address the…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Boards of Education, Chinese, Elementary Secondary Education