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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Bilingual program"”.
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Bilingual Education : Searching for the Ideal Elementary Bilingual Program
Bilingualism refers to an individual’s ability to proficiently use multiple languages. Bilingual education, then, refers to all programs that seek to teach using two specific languages. Bilingual education’s goals are to not only academically but also culturally embrace the student learner and …
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Simultaneous and Sequential Bilinguals in a German Bilingual Program
Bilingual Programs in western Canada provide children with instruction in a non-official language for up to 50% of the school day, and the corresponding curriculum documents are based on the assumption that the prototypical student speaks English at home and is learning the minority language as a …
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Balancing Climate, Culture and Achievement in a New Bilingual Program
<p>Interviews with bilingual teachers, focus groups with general education teachers, and surveys translated into Spanish for the bilingual parents at a small kindergarten through eighth grade school in a northern suburb of a large Midwestern city reveal the thoughts, concerns and excitement about …
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A Sociolinguistic Profile of the Pupils in the Bilingual Program at Martin Luther King, Jr. School #9
… situation during an interim assessment of a bilingual program. Questions deal with language use in the domains of home, school and neighborhood and with attitudes toward Spanish and English, and toward bilingual education in general and a specific bilingual program. A self-report by the pupil …
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Empowerment and Self-Efficacy in the Lives of Four Emerging Bilingual Assistants in an Additive Bilingual Program
… personal and professional lives of four emerging bilingual assistants (EBAs) who designed and implemented an additive bilingual program in preschool classrooms. Through a qualitative design that included participant observations, interviews, visual and narrative constructions, and video recording, …
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Measuring Student Success: a Study of a Dual Language Program vs. a Transitional Late-Exit Bilingual Program
… served in a Dual Language Two-Way Immersion program and those who are served in a Transitional, Late-Exit Bilingual program. The independent sample t-test, effect size, and Chi Square analysis will be used to examine the academic performance of a Dual Language/Two-Way immersion student cohort …
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(Re)mixin’ & flowin’: Examining the literacy practices of African American language speakers in an elementary two-way immersion bilingual program
… immersion (TWI) Spanish/English dual-language program. In this study, I problematize the notion of TWI programs as an additive program for AAL speakers by investigating the phenomenon from three critical frameworks that ungirded the study: Critical Race Theory (CRT) (Ladson-Billings & Tate, …
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Case Study in a School With High Numbers of Bilingual Students
… Public school with high numbers of fourth year bilingual students. The purpose of this study was to analyze elementary bilingual school students' data in a Chicago Public School, specifically those students in their fourth consecutive year in the Chicago Public School's bilingual program. The …
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Factors Influencing Reading Ability and Self-Esteem: A Study of Bilingually Educated and Non-Bilingually Educated Students
… study was an in-depth study of one transitional bilingual program and the reading progress, sensitivity to contextual constraints and measurement of self-esteem of 21 Limited English Proficiency (LEP) students (Group BE) that participated in a transitional bilingual program for three to four …
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Emergent Learning in an Emerging World
… is to present research-based information about bilingual education. This topic is relevant because of the growing need for effective and efficient education for emergent bilingual learners. This paper examines and defines bilingual education program models currently used in the United States. In …
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A COMPARISON OF THE TWO WAY DUAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BILINGUAL PROGRAMS ON TAKS READING ACHIEVEMENT: IMPLICATIONS FOR SCHOOL LEADERS
… from either a Two Way Dual or a Developmental Bilingual Program. The sample will include the following 5th grade students who meet the following conditions: (a) students continuously enrolled in the district during the 2010-2011 school year, either in Two Way Dual or Developmental program, (b) …
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How does participation in K-12 bilingual education in a large urban district within a Midwestern city influence the postsecondary pathways and outcomes of Latinos?
… low college enrollment and completion rates. Bilingual education is a venue through which many Latinos are schooled. Most studies on the impact of bilingual education have focused on elementary grade levels. Those that expand into high school or beyond include very small populations of …
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Targeted Professional Learning to Implement a Biliteracy Model: A Change Leadership Plan
… plan), it became clear that a change of the bilingual program model was necessary. This change plan examines the need for change in the current traditional Transitional Bilingual Education program to an extended Developmental Bilingual Education model with an emphasis on teaching for …
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A Literature Review: Dual Immersion Programs in Elementary Schools
… the procedure for implementing a dual immersion program in a public elementary school. Two-way bilingual programs carry on the goals of bilingual proficiency, academic proficiency, academic achievement, and positive cross-cultural attitudes and behaviors. This type of program refers to an …
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An Ethnography of Bilingual Education in a Chinese Community
… of a ten-year-old "maintenance" Chinese bilingual program in a public school located at the heart of a Chinatown community in California.
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A study of the academic achievement of fifth grade bilingual students in English-only classes
… whether or not the length of time spent in a bilingual program had any effect on the academic achievement of students when they were placed in English-only classes. Six fifth grade Hispanic students and three classroom teachers participated in the study. Brief classroom observations were …
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Exploring the most effective instructional practices to support student success in the bilingual dental assistant program
Rodriguez, Maria Cristina Bilingual education is an effective and inclusive method of teaching within U.S. higher education. The dental field is particularly in need of bilingual inclusivity. The best instructional practices in the delivery of a non-certified bilingual dental assistant diploma …
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Personalized Professional Learning for Elementary Bilingual Educators: A Policy Advocacy Document
… a policy to strengthen an existing elementary bilingual program through personalized professional development. Twin goals of the proposed policy are to (1) increase student achievement and (2) increase bilingual teacher retention. District 32’s bilingual program recently shifted from a …
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Bilingual Education in Palmetto City: A Case Study (Florida)
Most bilingual education programs to date have been carried out and evaluated with little awareness of the possible effects of contextual factors on their operation and outcomes. The present study was undertaken to gain some insight into how the relationship between school and community might …
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