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Selvachandran, Janani; Kay-Raining Bird, Elizabeth; DeSousa, Jessica; Chen, Xi – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
This study collected interview data from parents of five children identified as having special education needs who were attending or had attended a French Immersion program in Toronto, Ontario. The experiences of these families were qualitatively analyzed to uncover critical themes surrounding experiences and beliefs around French Immersion…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Special Education, Special Needs Students, Second Language Learning
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Krystina Raymond; Robert George; Ron Cadez; Michelle Follows; Nicole Neveux; Kathleen Hipfner-Boucher; Fred Genesee; Xi Chen – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 2024
This longitudinal, mixed-methods study reports on the development and implementation of an early phonological awareness screening and intervention program for struggling emergent readers in a French immersion school in Manitoba. The program was created by a professional learning community made up of the school administrator, teachers, and clinical…
Descriptors: English, French, Second Language Learning, Immersion Programs
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Block, Nicholas C. – Bilingual Research Journal, 2023
Measures of 31 Latinx students' attitudes in a Grade 5 Spanish dual language bilingual education (DLBE) program were compared with those of the same students four years prior. Twenty-one mainstream English students comprised a comparison group for the same time period. Some statistically significant changes occurred for students in DLBE related to…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Bilingual Education, Elementary School Students, English Language Learners
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Chung, Sheila Cira; Koh, PohWee; Chen, Xi; Deacon, S. Hélène – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2023
Orthographic knowledge is predicted to be central in the process of children's reading development. We examined both the temporal order between orthographic knowledge and each of word reading and word spelling--effectively, which predicts which by including autoregressive controls--and cross-linguistic transfer between English and French for our…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Grade 2, Bilingual Students
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Hipfner-Boucher, Kathleen; Pasquarella, Adrian; Prasad, Sonal; Chen, Xi – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: Our 1-year longitudinal study tracked the development of cognate awareness among second (L2) and third language (L3) learners of French in French immersion in Grades 1 and 2 to explore the impact of orthographic overlap and cognate status (true vs. false) on children's ability to recognize cognate relationships. We also assessed the…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, French, Immersion Programs, Elementary School Students
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MacKay, Elizabeth; Chen, Xi; Deacon, S. Hélène – Annals of Dyslexia, 2023
In Canada, approximately 12% of school-aged children are enrolled in French Immersion (FI), with some provinces estimating close to 30%. FI programs are intended to produce bilingual individuals who can functionally communicate in both of Canada's official languages. Yet, we are currently underinformed as to how to identify children with French…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immersion Programs, French, Reading Difficulties
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Jennifer L. Steele; Johanna Watzinger-Tharp; Robert O. Slater; Gregg Roberts; Karl Bowman – Grantee Submission, 2024
The rising demand for dual-language immersion (DLI) programs, which offer core instruction in two languages from early grades onward, has raised questions about program design and access. We leverage the rapid expansion of DLI schools across the U.S. state of Utah to estimate effects of DLI program availability on the academic achievement of…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Bilingual Education Programs, Educational Benefits, Second Language Learning
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Reuter, Kathryn – BU Journal of Graduate Studies in Education, 2022
French Immersion instruction has often focused on the development of oral language as the primary method of early literacy learning. Manitoba Education endorses this focus with its curricular emphasis on oral language acquisition before formal reading and writing instruction. This article examines the role of early years French immersion teachers…
Descriptors: French, Literacy Education, Immersion Programs, Grade 1
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Alissa Patricia Wolters; Young-suk Grace Kim – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
We investigated spelling errors in English and Spanish essays by Spanish-English dual language learners in Grades 1, 2, and 3 (N = 278; 51% female) enrolled in either English immersion or English-Spanish dual immersion programs. We examined what types of spelling errors students made, whether they made spelling errors that could be due to…
Descriptors: Spelling, Spanish, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Ryan, Ève – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2023
Drawing upon Darvin and Norton's framework of investment, this article explores the multiple factors underlying parents' commitment to bilingual education. I use open-ended responses on a survey to report on the motivations and experiences of parents who have enrolled their child in a French-English dual language immersion program. Findings…
Descriptors: Parent Influence, Immersion Programs, Bilingual Education, English Language Learners
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Svenja Gusewski; Raúl Rojas – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2024
Purpose: This longitudinal study investigated the trajectory of Spanish article accuracy in Spanish-English dual language learners (DLLs) from preschool to first grade, addressing the need for longitudinal data on the variability of Spanish grammatical skills in DLLs in English immersion classrooms. Method: Language sample analysis was conducted…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Grammar, Spanish, English (Second Language)
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Alissa Wolters; Young-Suk Kim – Grantee Submission, 2024
Purpose: There is limited research on the writing of young Spanish-English bilinguals and their writing in both languages. In the current study, we addressed whether written syntax features differed by language (English and Spanish) and varied as a function of grade level, English learner status, and instructional program (dual or English…
Descriptors: Written Language, Spanish, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Alissa Patricia Wolters; Young-Suk Grace Kim – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: There is limited research on the writing of young Spanish-English bilinguals and their writing in both languages. In the current study, we addressed whether written syntax features differed by language (English and Spanish) and varied as a function of grade level, English learner status, and instructional program (dual or English…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Written Language, Spanish, English (Second Language)
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Krenca, Klaudia; Segers, Eliane; Chen, Xi; Shakory, Sharry; Steele, Jeffrey; Verhoeven, Ludo – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
The 1-year longitudinal study presented here examined the extent to which the ability to build phonologically specific lexical entries as a result of increasing vocabulary size predicts word reading via its impact on phonological awareness within and across languages in 62 emerging English (L1) and French (L2) Grade 1 children (M = 75.69 months,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Grade 1, Phonological Awareness, Reading Ability
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Sohail, Juwairia; Sorenson Duncan, Tamara; Koh, Poh Wee; Deacon, S. Hélène; Chen, Xi – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2022
This study evaluates the extent to which syntactic awareness contributes to reading comprehension in English-French bilinguals, considering both the potential for a direct relation, as well as an indirect one, through word reading. Participants were 146 first-grade students enrolled in early French immersion programs in Canada. While the children…
Descriptors: French, Syntax, Metalinguistics, Immersion Programs
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