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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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Critical bilingual leadership: liderazgo for emergent bilingual Latin@ students
… while marginalizing the experiences of emergent bilingual students and students of color. This case study dissertation explores Critical Bilingual Leadership (i.e. Liderazgo) as a framework to examine how the leadership of a principal and broader school community in a PK-8 public school in the …
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Bilingual Parents' Perception and Their Attitude Towards Participation in Bilingual/bicultural Education
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Bilingual education program evaluation.
Thesis. 1979. M.C.P.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning.
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Political implications of bilingual cognition
… of all children around the world grow up in bilingual environments (Crystal 1997) and more than half of the world's population speak more than one language in everyday life (Grosjean 2010), political science continues to operate under a Chomskian scheme in which language is characterized as …
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Bilingual Education Models and Curricula in Bilingual Immersion Primary Schools in Brazil: A Comparative Study
… of consistency in the practical execution of bilingual immersion models at three bilingual primary schools in Brazil. Despite the recent proliferation of bilingual institutions, a persistent lack of regulations has allowed Brazilian schools great freedom in their choice of bilingual academic …
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Bilingual interactions, linguistic choices, and the nature of bilingual grammar: Korean students in the United States
… of the nature of the sociolinguistic grammar of bilingual language use. Specifically the main goal will test the claims of a theoretical methodology—that is, Optimality Theory (OT)-inspired—that imposes order on the vast array of sociolinguistic functions of code-switching and reach for …
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Towards a bilingual graphic imaging system.
This research explored the development of a 'bilingual graphic imaging system'. The 'system' is 'sociocultural', where the two languages of communication are English and the lesser used language - Gaelic. The aim of the research was to investigate the parameters and potentials of bilingual graphic …
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Federal public policy and bilingual education
… reviews the historical and legal background of bilingual education policy. Chapter three presents a literature review of bilingual education policy making, and examines the impacts and effects of federal aid in practice. Chapter four provides a summary of survey findings and recommendations for …
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Opportunities and obstacles in bilingual reading
… the strategic reading processes of eight bilingual Hispanic children who are good English readers. For comparative purposes, a smaller sample of good monolingual Anglo readers and of poor bilingual Hispanic readers is also included. The major objective of this study was to answer the …
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Prospects for Improving Bilingual Education: An Analysis of Conditions Surrounding Bilingual Education Programs in U.S. Public Schools
<p>Bilingual education is a subject of debate in education. Some claim that bilingual education programs are detrimental to students, but decades of research supports the benefits of bilingualism and bilingual education for both English Language Learners and monolingual English speakers. The U.S. …
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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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Math anxiety and careers among bilingual Latinos
… students, such information is lacking for bilingual Latino college students. The first objective of the study was to create and psychometrically evaluate a Spanish-language Mathematics Anxiety Rating Scale-Short Version (MARS-SV) and to compare it with the English-language MARS-SV in …
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Sentence Comprehension in Monolingual and Bilingual Children
Abstract Bilingual children outperform monolingual children on non-linguistic tasks that tap executive function. It still unknown whether the enhancement of executive functioning found for bilingual children improves complex linguistic comprehension. The present study examined possible differences …
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Teaching EFL in Thailand : a bilingual study
… use of both L1 and L2 creates a distinctive bilingual pedagogy. The research takes an ethnographic approach which comprises the observation of ten English classes at a provincial Thai university and interviews with nine teachers on site. The framework for analysis is grounded in …
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Idiom Comprehension In Bilingual And Monolingual Adolescents
… that had not been studied in this manner: bilingual (Spanish-English) adolescents in West Central Florida and their monolingual (English-only) peers. The GEM posits that idiom comprehension develops in tandem with other linguistic development requiring inferencing ability; and that idiom x …
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Lexical access in bilingual and multilingual speakers
… Arbeit war den lexikalischen Zugang bei bilingualen und multilingualen Personen zu untersuchen. Im Rahmen der Studie wurden die durchschnittlichen Antwortzeiten, Fehlerquoten sowie die Anzahl der „tip-of-the-tongue“-Zustände bei der Durchführung eines Bildbenennungsexperiments genauer …
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Monolingual and Bilingual Differences in Reinforcement Learning
… pathways. Most RL studies have not considered bilingualism. Some studies show that bilingualism trains specific brain circuits involved in flexible rule selection and application, while some do not find differences in cognitive performance between monolinguals and bilinguals at all. Given the …
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Lexical-syntactic representations in bilingual sentence production
… can also be primed between both languages of a bilingual (Hartsuiker et al., 2004; Schoonbaert et al. 2007; Salamoura & Williams, 2007). Hartsuiker et al. (2004) therefore concluded that syntactic representations can be shared between languages in the bilingual lexicon. In this dissertation, we …
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