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Leala Holcomb – Sign Language Studies, 2024
This investigation aimed to explore the feasibility of implementing the strategic and interactive signing instruction (SISI) framework and its potential to enhance the signed composition skills of four deaf students in a first/second-grade classroom. SISI was adapted from the existing strategic and interactive writing instruction (SIWI) framework…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Deafness, Teaching Methods, Grade 1
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Xu, Yaoying; Chen, Chin-Chih; Spence, Christine; Washington-Nortey, Melissa; Zhang, Fa; Brown, Amber – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
Young English learners (ELs) whose home language is Spanish continue to lag behind in several school readiness areas including language and literacy skills in spite of their strong social skills, which are positively related to language and literacy. The purpose of this article is to identify challenges that preschool Spanish speaking ELs face,…
Descriptors: Spanish Speaking, English Language Learners, Peer Teaching, Literacy
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Guerrettaz, Anne Marie; Zahler, Tara; Sotirovska, Vera; Boyd, Ashley Summer – Language Teaching Research, 2022
Many US K-12 teachers in ethnolinguistically homogenous, rural areas are not adequately prepared to meet the needs of their English language learner (ELL) students. Such educators often lack conceptual understanding of language pedagogy and affective investment in ELLs. The field of language teacher education (LTE) needs research on how to better…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs, Kindergarten
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Beaupoil-Hourdel, Pauline – Research-publishing.net, 2020
In teacher training curricula, books are presented as an ideal material for building and enriching young children's language. Yet, the routine of reading at home with children is hardly ever mentioned. In this chapter, the author proposes analyses of story-reading activities from a usage-based and first language acquisition perspective. The goal…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Child Language
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Gross, Esther; Crawford, Jenifer – CATESOL Journal, 2021
This article offers a critical interpretation of the current trends in instructional models for English language learners in California. We review key instructional models and analyze them from traditional (teacher-centered), progressive (student-centered), and critical orientations (society- and power-centered). These instructional models share…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Equal Education, Multilingualism, Progressive Education
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Walters, Sue – Language Learning Journal, 2007
Language learning strategy research has focused on the actions of the individual language learner and investigated the links between successful learning and the strategies that such learners use. At the same time, researchers studying beginner bilingual pupils learning English and learning to read in English in UK schools have also been interested…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Ethnography, English (Second Language), Bilingualism