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Lillie Padilla; Rosti Vana – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2024
The present study conducted a critical discourse analysis and a visual analysis on 12 beginner-level Spanish textbooks. The goal of the study was to examine the representation of Afro-Latinxs and the ideologies behind these representations. The frameworks that guided the study were Fairclough's framework for Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and…
Descriptors: Spanish, Textbooks, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Evan B. Ditmore – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study explores working business professionals' perspectives towards the implementation of two-way language immersion programs in Texas public schools. Participants were selected for participation by means of a pre-selection survey that assessed various aspects of the cultural, educational, linguistic, familial, and business background of the…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Bilingual Education Programs, Second Language Learning, Program Implementation
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Cil, Gulcan; Chaparro, Erin A.; Dennis, Caroline; Smolkowski, Keith – School Psychology, 2023
Best practice suggests that curricular decisions be made on the evidence base of the content and the contextual fit of the curriculum to the school setting, and with coaching to help teachers effectively use curricula. Messages from the federal government encourage school administrators and researchers to consider the costs of a program. The…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Middle School Students
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Janusik, Laura Ann; Varner, Teri – International Journal of Listening, 2022
Research in metacognitive listening strategies in first language (L[superscript 1]) listening is in its infancy. The research presented here, which is the first study in a larger research program, compares the strategies L[superscript 1] students in the US say they do in the classroom with the strategies L[superscript 2] students say they use, as…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Listening Comprehension
Lillian Ramos – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This is an ethnographic case study that explores and examines the translanguaging practices of three bilingual teachers in a rural elementary school in deep south Texas. Translanguaging guides this analysis. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Bilingualism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Mitch Ingram; Charise Pimentel – Journal of Multilingual Education Research, 2025
As Two-Way Dual Language Programs continue in their nascent stages in the United States, some teachers, administrators, and researchers have reported issues of interest convergence. This construct refers to a Critical Theory principle that proposes alignment between the interests of whites and marginalized groups for a perceived common benefit,…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Bilingual Education Programs, Immersion Programs, Spanish Speaking
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Araceli Enriquez-Andrade; Ma. Glenda Lopez Wui; Jie Zhang; Lana Kharabi-Yamato; Jackie Eunjung Relyea; Sissy S. Wong – Language and Education, 2024
This study explores teachers' use of Spanish in sixth-grade bilingual science classrooms at an urban middle school in Texas. We used a case study approach to study how two Spanish-English bilingual teachers utilized Spanish during instruction in a unit on space exploration and their beliefs on Spanish use in English-dominant science classrooms.…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Faculty Development
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Henderson, Kathryn – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2022
Dual language bilingual education (DLBE) programs are critical sites for exploring language ideologies given the policy goals of student bilingualism, biliteracy, and biculturalism. Drawing on a larger study of language ideological inquiry, this article used predominantly interview data to explore the articulated language ideological stances of…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Language Attitudes, Biculturalism, Literacy
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Suh, Emily; Owens, Sam; Dyer, James; McGee, Barrie; LeBlanc, Rene' – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2022
In Texas, adult English as a Second Language (ES(O)L) and developmental education classes both offer adult multilingual students remediation guided by distinct standards: Texas Workforce Commission (2016) and Texas College and Career Readiness Standards (2018). Within various colleges, the courses are overseen by different departments lacking…
Descriptors: Alignment (Education), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Jose Villalobos – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This research uses a descriptive quantitative statistical design to examine campus-level results from the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR). The focus is on describing the achievement disparities between campuses that implemented Transitional Bilingual Education (TBE) programs and those implementing Dual Language (DL)…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Mihaly, Deanna H. – Hispania, 2021
The most effective way to address the critical social and political issues confronting students today is to promote intercultural competence with empathy at the core of language instruction. Language has the ability to shape our thoughts and to alter our consciousness. As students view the world through the prism of cultural openness, they are…
Descriptors: Empathy, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Spanish
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M. Sidury Christiansen – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
This article investigates the language practices of a bilingual mariachi instructor teaching mariachi music to Latinx English dominant students. This ethnographic study draws on the concept of chronotope (Bakhtin 1981) to explore the spatiotemporal aspects of learning, particularly in terms of the teachers' selective use of language correction…
Descriptors: Spanish, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Hoff, Meagan A.; Reynolds, Jessica S. – Adult Literacy Education, 2022
For linguistically diverse students, the path to college is often defined by language. Depending on assessments and institutional policies, students may be placed into course sequences in developmental English, adult basic education, and/or English as a Second Language courses. The purpose of this study was to better understand developmental…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, College Readiness, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Jabbari, Nasser; Peterson, Mark – Language Learning Journal, 2023
Many English as a foreign language (EFL) learners worldwide spend hours playing commercial-off-the-shelf massively multiplayer online games. They engage in a multitude of different interactions with the game environment and possibly with other gamers, using English as the predominant medium of communication. This raises the question of whether…
Descriptors: Accuracy, Video Games, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Geronima Florinda Nale – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this study was to review policies that affect English Learners in Texas public schools. Specifically, the relationship between ESL certification and teacher preparedness to teach English Learners was addressed. In this journal-ready dissertation, the first article contains a review of national and state policies that were designed…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teacher Certification
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