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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Emergent bilinguals"”.
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Teacher professional development related to emergent bilinguals: Teacher perceptions and experiences
… first language is one other than English, or are emergent bilinguals (EBs), in the United States. If teachers are not prepared adequately, they are not able to meet the needs of students appropriately. The following study sought to determine whether or not public school elementary teachers in …
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Promoting critical literacy among emergent bilinguals: an exploration of their identities
This study was an action research study that examined how second grade bilingual children defined “the word and their world” (Freire & Macedo, 1987) during literature discussions; that world is structured by societal, school, and classroom constructions of race, culture and languages when students …
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A Qualitative Study of the Positioning of Emergent Bilinguals during Formal and Informal School-Based Interactions
The education of emergent bilinguals in the United States is overtly and covertly shaped by social, political, and institutional ideologies about languages and speakers of languages other than English. Using a multiple case study design, this study sought to explicate the often-complicated …
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A qualitative meta-analysis of the impact translanguaging as a pedagogical possibility has on the learning experiences of adolescent newcomer emergent bilinguals in the United States
… students who are at risk is adolescent newcomer emergent bilinguals. The pedagogical approaches to teach these students have varied from English-Only approaches to bilingual education programs. Within bilingual education, different approaches have also emerged, such as dual language bilingual …
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LANGUAGE, IDEOLOGY, AND EQUITY IN CHINESE-ENGLISH DUAL LANGUAGE BILINGUAL EDUCATION: FROM CURRICULUM TO CLASSROOM PRACTICES TO STUDENT EXPERIENCE
… this seemingly ideal program designed to serve emergent bilinguals, challenges, inequalities, and marginalization persist in less visible ways. Drawing on 1.5 years of ethnographic fieldwork, including classroom observations, discourse analysis, interviews with teachers, parents, and students, …
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Translanguaging and identities: Bilingual language and literacy practices in a Spanish-English two-way immersion classroom
… present study is to understand the complexity of bilinguals’ language and literacy practices in relation to the dynamics of identity construction in Spanish-English two- way immersion practices. For this reason, using a comparative case study, this study investigates both Spanish-English …
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Korean emergent bilingual students’ language use and translanguaging
… fields have investigated how emergent bilinguals developed their English language and literacy skills (e.g., Francis, Lesaux, & August, 2006), but very little attention has been given to students' language and literacy development in their heritage language (HL) (August & …
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The Role of Language Ideologies in Curriculum Design: Possibilities in Computational and Digital Literacies Integration in Teacher Education
… bilingual teachers or will inevitably work with emergent bilinguals and linguistically diverse learners<a title=""><sup><sup>[1]</sup></sup></a>, as the intersections between CDLs and language are key to supporting these students. Equally important to CDL integration in teacher education is …
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Developing young children’s biliteracy through translanguaging and multimodal instruction
The population of emergent bilinguals (EBs) in public schools is constantly increasing in the United States. According to 2019 statistics, EBs represented 10.4% of the total school population or 5.1 million students (NCES National Center for Education Statistics, 2022). The educational community …
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Science as a Second Language: Analysis of Emergent Bilingual Performance and the Impact of English Language Proficiency and First Language Characteristics on the Colorado Measures of Academic Success for Science
… academic achievement, specifically concerning Emergent Bilinguals (EBs). Research has identified the need to study the role language plays in content assessments and the impact they have on EBs performance (Abedi, 2008b; Abedi, Hofestter & Lord, 2004; Abedi & Lord, 2001). Since language is the …
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Digital dialogues : a qualitative single-case study exploring adult patrons’ experiences in online English language classes at a public library.
… literacy and English language learning, yet emergent bilinguals (EBs) often underutilize these free community programs. Guided by Kolb and Kolb’s (2017) experiential learning theory (ELT), this study examined how adult learners described their English language acquisition through the …
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Voices within sitios y lenguas: a bilingual elementary context
… allow us to explore ways that teachers support emergent bilingual students’ cultivated student voice and incorporated their home language and culture in the classroom learning environment. Cultivating bilingual individuals in this day in age has been relegated to transitional bilingual programs …
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Culturally Responsive Practices to Improve Instruction for Secondary Emergent Bilingual Students: A Design Development Study
Teaching emergent bilingual (EB) students requires that schools provide classroom environments that put into practice strategies that support English language development and support teachers with ongoing professional development and support to implement these strategies. Successfully implementing …
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The rich languaging practices of simultanous bilingual children: Linguistic ability, agency, and flexibility
There is a lack of research on bilingualism and biliteracy, specifically on simultaneous bilingual children. The present study seeks to provide research on the literacy practices of simultaneous bilingual prekindergarten and kindergarten children as they begin their formal schooling. The study …
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Literacy Practices in a Changing Cultural Context: The Literacy Development of Two Emergent Mayan-Spanish Bilingual Children
… in Yucatan, Mexico. It explores how young emergent bilingual children make sense of written language through their everyday practices. Data includes field notes from participants observations, video and audio recordings and literacy samples collected during fieldwork. The literacy events …
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What’s the Use of Research? How Teachers Use Research To Plan for Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Classrooms
… lack of confidence and preparation for teaching emergent bilinguals (EBs) (Gándara, Maxwell-Jolly, & Driscoll, 2005). This ties to the second gap—the “research/practice gap” between researchers and practitioners generally (Farley-Ripple, May, Karpyn, Tilley, & McDonough, 2018; Penuel, Allen, …
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Constructing a pedagogical third space with multilingual children: A case study of the bilingual Stars of Today Literacy Club# (STLC#)
… deficit construction of Black African language - emergent English speaking bi-multilingual children. This study argues that the curriculum's construction of separate Home and Additional Language periods continues to be calibrated to the needs of White English and Afrikaans monolingual children who …
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Effective principal leadership practices for dual language strand programming: Bridging leadership for learning and critical bilingual leadership
… the historical perspective for civil rights and emergent bilingual education and how those events have led to various program models for emergent bilingual education. This dissertation reviews the historical context for emergent bilingual education and focuses on dual language education as a …
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Translanguaging About, With, and Through Code and Computing: Emergent Bi/multilingual Middle Schoolers Forging Computational Literacies
… the experiences and language practices of emergent bi/multilingual K-12 students and use that knowledge to drive equitable pedagogical and programmatic approaches. But little is known about how emergent bi/multilingual students — a growing population that school systems have often viewed …