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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"bilingualism and biliteracy"”.
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Opportunities and obstacles in bilingual reading
… 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 question of how bilingualism and biliteracy affect metacognition. Data were gathered using unprompted and prompted think alouds, interviews, …
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Literacy Practices in a Changing Cultural Context: The Literacy Development of Two Emergent Mayan-Spanish Bilingual Children
… notes from participants observations, video and audio recordings and literacy samples collected during fieldwork. The literacy events extracted from the data were analyzed in terms of the communicative function written language serves, the use of linguistic resources, and particular ways of …
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Inventing a classroom: An ethnographic study of a third-grade, bilingual learning community
… observations, interviews, writing samples, and audio-tape transcriptions. Five critical events illustrate the construction of oral and written language, culture, and curriculum in the classroom: negotiation of curriculum early in the school year, a set of literature study discussions, genre …
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Monolingual policies in the EFL/bilingual classroom: teachers' perceptions of and beliefs about L1/L2 use.
Second and foreign language programs often adopt monolingual pedagogies that promote strict language separation of the L1 and L2, with the intent of maximizing students' exposure to the target language. This qualitative study presents an analysis of the attitudes and beliefs of two co-teachers in …
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Latina Immigrant Mothers' Counterstories of Education: Challenging Deficit Myths
… working-class Latin@ immigrant graduation rates and college attendance in recent years, most educators and administrators still perceive Latin@ students with deficit mindsets. Majoritarian storytelling perpetuates deficit myths about working-class Latin@ immigrant students and their families not …
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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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The Laei Samoa Framework: Exploring the Long-Term Impacts of Samoan Bilingual/Immersion Education on the lives of Samoan Graduates
… Education (SBIE) on graduates’ lives, and its effect on their wellbeing and career trajectories. Despite its status as the third most spoken language in Aotearoa NZ, there is a dearth of research on the outcomes and experiences of SBIE students. In light of concerns about language shift …
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When Hearts Beat in Two Languages: Enabling Access to Biliteracy Pathway Recognitions for Latine Linguistically Expanding Learners (LExLs) in K-8 Schools Across a Southern California School District
… qualitative nested case study examined how Biliteracy Pathway Recognitions (BPRs) are implemented and accessed for Latine Linguistically Expanding Learners (LExLs) in one Southern California school district. Although California has expanded opportunities for students to earn recognitions …
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The nested contexts of language use and literacy learning in a South African fourth grade class: understanding the dynamics of language and literacy practices
This qualitative case study examines language and literacy practices in English as a second language (L2) in a South African 4th grade classroom, and to a lesser extent in the foundation phase grades (grades R-3), where literacy was in the students’ home language, Zulu. Although I was interested in …
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Factors that affect biliteracy development and maintenance of Swahili in bilingual (Swahili-English) speaking children
This qualitative study investigates the bilingual and biliteracy (Swahili-English) development of two elementary and three middle school Kenyan children across home and school contexts in the United States. Guided by sociocognitive and sociocultural theories of language and literacy, the study …
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Language Socialization of Chinese Children in the American Midwest: Learning to Write in American Preschool, Chinese Sunday School, and at Home
… studies in American preschool, Chinese school and home settings have reported very different sets of beliefs and practices about writing and learning. However, few studies have explored the cultural underpinnings and the socialization role of such differing beliefs and practices across these …