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de los Ríos, Cati V. – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2022
U.S. Latinx youth from immigrant backgrounds bring to schools their transnational literacies, complex lived experiences of marginalization and resistance, and politicized translanguaging practices that are seldom recognized in classrooms. This article examines U.S. Latinx bilingual youth who participated in a podcast project within a…
Descriptors: Audio Equipment, Hispanic American Students, High School Students, English (Second Language)
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Briceño, Allison – Reading Psychology, 2021
This study integrated reading and bilingual theories to examine the reading behaviors of second grade Latinx students in a Dual Language program. It explored how the students' differing language backgrounds (simultaneous bilinguals and sequential bilinguals who had developed Spanish as a home language) might influence their early reading…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Grade 2, Elementary School Students, Bilingual Education Programs
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Cano, Jessica; Ruiz, Nadeen Teresa – Bilingual Research Journal, 2020
Throughout our targeted approach of explicit collaborative translation during small-group reading instruction in a bilingual education classroom, fourth grade emergent bilinguals employed the strategy to comprehend narrative text in a range of ways, similar to middle school students in reading instruction research. As students acknowledged the…
Descriptors: Translation, Bilingual Education, Code Switching (Language), Small Group Instruction
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Lang, Nora W. – Bilingual Research Journal, 2019
This study investigated structural features of a newcomer program housed within a comprehensive high school and language practices among newcomer students and their teachers. Findings indicate efforts to provide newcomer students with "safe spaces," opportunities for language and literacy development in English and Spanish, and access to…
Descriptors: Immigrants, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Code Switching (Language)
Pacheco, Mariana, Ed.; Morales, P. Zitlali, Ed.; Hamilton, Colleen, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2019
The purpose of "Transforming Schooling for Second Language Learners: Theoretical Insights, Policies, Pedagogies, and Practices" is to bring together educational researchers and practitioners who have implemented, documented, or examined policies, pedagogies, and practices in and out of classrooms and in real and virtual contexts that are…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Second Language Learning, Bilingualism, Applied Linguistics
Anderson, Vivienne, Ed.; Johnson, Henry, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019
This multidisciplinary collection examines the connections between education, migration and translation across school and higher education sectors, and a broad range of socio-geographical contexts. Organised around the themes of knowledge, language, mobility, and practice, it brings together studies from around the world to offer a timely critique…
Descriptors: Immigration, Interdisciplinary Approach, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
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Martinez, Ramon Antonio – Research in the Teaching of English, 2010
This article reports findings from a qualitative study of Spanish-English code-switching--or "Spanglish"--among bilingual Latina/Latino sixth graders at a middle school in East Los Angeles. Analysis of the data revealed significant parallels between the skills embedded in students' everyday use of "Spanglish" and the skills…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Spanish, English, Qualitative Research
Denham, Kristin, Ed.; Lobeck, Anne, Ed. – Cambridge University Press, 2010
Linguistics is a subject that has remained largely confined to the academy, rather than being integrated into school curricula. This is unfortunate but not surprising, as although some teacher education programs include courses on linguistics, it is not comprehensively integrated into teacher education, so it is largely absent from the curriculum.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Childrens Writing, Speech, Sociolinguistics
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Reyes, Iliana – Bilingual Research Journal, 2008
This study focuses on the characteristics of discourse between Latino immigrant children and their teacher during science instruction. Peer interaction was analyzed to identify the use and importance of the native language (L1) for the development of content knowledge during group collaboration. In addition, the interaction between teacher and…
Descriptors: Science Activities, Speech Communication, Language of Instruction, Second Language Learning