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Richey, Rebecca – Learning Languages, 2007
This article features the Foreign Language Assistance Program, also known as FLAP, which holds the distinction as the only federally funded program that exclusively targets foreign language instruction in elementary and secondary schools. Funded under Title V of No Child Left Behind, FLAP provides 3-year grants to states and local school districts…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Program Evaluation, Federal Legislation, Linguistics
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Hayes, Renee – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2005
In dual language programs, children who speak a majority language are grouped with children who speak a minority language, and instruction is delivered in both languages. This focus on structural rather than instructional design can lead to a recipe approach to design: add the ingredients (native-speaking children, content language instruction) in…
Descriptors: Spanish, Kindergarten, Interaction, Second Language Learning
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Lee, Soyoung – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2005
This study examines the process of parent participation for a group of Korean parents in a Korean English two-way immersion program who were labeled "uncooperative." It adopts Ogbu's cultural ecological theory as the theoretical framework for examining the phenomenon and thus it examines both the environmental as well as the cultural forces that…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences, Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship
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Lopez, Maria G.; Tashakkori, Abbas – Bilingual Research Journal, 2004
This study examines the short-term effects of a two-way bilingual education program on the literacy development of students in kindergarten and first grade. This study compared the literacy development of two groups of children who received different proportions of instruction in English and Spanish. Both the experimental and control groups…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Grade 1, Kindergarten, Experimental Groups
Empirical Education Inc., 2006
The authors conducted an experiment during the 2003-2004 school year to determine whether "On Our Way to English" ("OWE"), a product to help elementary students learn to read and speak English, was more effective in a California and a Texas school district than materials already in place. In the California study, 384 English…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Experimental Groups, Second Language Learning, Bilingual Students
Newman, Denis; Jaciw, Andrew – Empirical Education Inc., 2005
The authors were asked to find out whether "On Our Way to English" ("OWE"), a supplementary, text-based product to help elementary school students learn to read and speak English was more effective in a California and a Texas school district than the materials the districts already had in place. They conducted an experiment…
Descriptors: Curriculum Implementation, Instructional Materials, Federal Aid, Interviews
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