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Vicky Chondrogianni; Morna Butcher – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
This study investigated the psycholinguistic and child-related variables that modulate vocabulary development and the so-called receptive-expressive gap in child L2 learners of Gaelic with English as their L1. In total, 50 6- to 8-year-old English-Gaelic bilingual children attending Gaelic-medium immersion education were administered the English…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Children, Bilingual Students, English
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Mandy R. Menke – Foreign Language Annals, 2024
Language immersion programs seek to develop multilingual, multiliterate individuals able to engage with academic content. Studies of immersion students' language development provide details regarding language proficiency and accuracy, yet they generally do not address how features of written, academic language, for example, syntactic and lexical…
Descriptors: Spanish, Immersion Programs, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Karsten K. Powell; Kirsten Darling-Mcquistan; Rosemary Battalio – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2024
This study explores how a long-running, special education teacher education-focused international immersion experience has grown over time to include robust international exchange between home and host institutions and how participation influenced past participants' professional practice. This research fills a gap in the research linking special…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Special Education Teachers, Immersion Programs, International Educational Exchange
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Chaparro, Sofía E. – Language Policy, 2021
Bilingual Two-Way Immersion (TWI) programs are becoming increasingly popular in the United States, especially amongst white, non-Hispanic, middle-class English speaking-parents (Valdez et al. in Urban Rev 44:601-627, 2016). While they are growing in numbers and popularity, researchers caution against the challenges and inequalities that they face…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Bilingual Education, Ethnography, Public Schools
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Panagiotis Panagiotidis – European Journal of Education (EJED), 2021
The use of Extended Reality technologies in education, and especially in language learning, has attracted the interest of language experts for the last 15 years. However, the recent technological progress as well as the simultaneous dramatic reduction of the cost of the necessary hardware has led to an impressive growth of the XR market, creating,…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition, Computer Software
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Newell, Kirsten W.; Kember, Jessie; Zinn, Gesa – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2022
This brief report summarizes the development and psychometric properties of German reading fluency passages as compared to English reading fluency passages for immersion language learners. Results indicated that scores from German language reading fluency passages alone were (a) somewhat less reliable than scores from English publisher-developed…
Descriptors: German, Reading Fluency, Oral Reading, Immersion Programs
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Buser, Melanie; Melfi, Giuseppe – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
The "Filière Bilingue" (FiBi) is a Swiss public two-way immersion program integrating French-speaking, German-speaking and allophone learners (having neither French nor German as an L1) in each class. Located in the bilingual city of Biel/ Bienne, the "diglossic" situation represented by the use of Swiss German and standard…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, French, German, Immersion Programs
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Keshavarz, Mohammad Hossein; Keshavarz, Avishan – MEXTESOL Journal, 2022
There is no dearth of studies on pronunciation problems of students of English as a Foreign Language (EFL); however, research on pronunciation problems of young learners is scarce. Therefore, to fill this research gap, the present quasiexperimental study aimed at investigating the effect of L2 input on the pronunciation performance of young…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Pronunciation, Elementary School Students
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Denise A. D. Kennedy – in education, 2022
This research based on my master's thesis explores Nahkawewin language revitalization. This study draws on the language nest model, which first originated with Maori grandmothers and their grandchildren in the 1970s. In this study, my mother and I created what I refer to as a "mini" language nest in both of our homes to teach my children…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Indigenous Populations, American Indian Languages, Canada Natives
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Mariana Lima Becker; Gabrielle Oliveira – Teachers College Record, 2024
Background: Guidelines for the successful implementation of two-way dual language bilingual education (DLBE) programs foreground the role of program leadership, hiring and preparing culturally and linguistically competent teachers, family involvement, and the alignment between curriculum, assessments, and instruction in both languages. Absent in…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Immigrants, Latin Americans, Portuguese
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Sylvia Pantaleo – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2025
During a 10-week classroom-based study in a school in western Canada, 17 Kindergarten children had multiple opportunities to learn about how elements of visual art, design and layout in picturebook artwork are fundamental to meaning-making when transacting with this format of literature. Student application of learning about the concepts under…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Visual Arts, Art Education, Art Products
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Oliveira, Gabrielle; Lima Becker, Mariana; Jeon, Ahrum – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2021
This article explores Brazilian immigrant parents' perspectives about a newly established Two-Way Immersion (TWI) program in their community. The analysis of parental answers to a family engagement survey, using the framework of investment, reveals that the Brazilian parents in our sample assembled narratives of gratitude through overt statements…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Parent Attitudes, Psychological Patterns, Immersion Programs
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Watzinger-Tharp, Johanna; Tharp, Douglas S.; Rubio, Fernando – Modern Language Journal, 2021
Dual language immersion (DLI) as an alternative model to monolingual English-medium education has continued to expand rapidly over the past decade. As this model continues to grow across the United States, stakeholders look to research to demonstrate sustainability and scalability of dual language programs. Drawing on 224 schools, the statewide…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, French, Spanish, Language Proficiency
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Natalie Keefer; Jyhane Young; Julia Lopez; Michelle Haj-Broussard – Social Education, 2024
Social studies teachers in language immersion settings are tasked with simultaneously teaching students social studies content while also scaffolding target language acquisition. An abundance of resources exists for teaching social studies, yet language immersion teachers often rely on collaboration with colleagues to create lessons and translate…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Language Acquisition, Teacher Role
Maria Alexandra Carrillo Prasad – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation was an investigation of how students in two-way bilingual immersion (TWBI) programs construct their bilingual identities inside and outside the school setting, highlighting the unique and multifaceted nature of their language development and cultural identity formation. TWBI programs aim to cultivate bilingualism and biliteracy,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Immersion Programs, Spanish, Self Concept
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