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La Serna, Jillian – Foreign Language Annals, 2022
This paper draws from a broader research project and reports on literacy program supports and instructional strategies in two-way immersion (TWI) classrooms (Grades 3-5) where the partner language is Spanish. The study examined TWI classrooms in which students from multiple demographics were performing at or above the state average on reading…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Teaching Methods, Immersion Programs, Grade 3
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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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Côté, Marie-France; Savage, Robert; Petscher, Yaacov – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2021
This study explored the impact of a supplemental reading intervention delivered in English in Grade 1 on the performance of at-risk children educated in French Immersion schools. The intervention contrasted "Direct Mapping and Set-for-Variability" with a "Common and Best Practices" taught control condition in a matched…
Descriptors: English, French, Immersion Programs, Grade 1
Martinez Hinestroza, Jose Manuel – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Unlike previous research on participation in mathematics classrooms that focuses on the teacher's role eliciting student talk, the purpose of this dissertation is to study the interactive process through which a teacher connected her reflection and practice, fostering transformations in the culture of participation in a third-grade Spanish…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Immersion Programs, Spanish, Mathematics Instruction
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Wise, Nancy; D'Angelo, Nadia; Chen, Xi – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2016
The current intervention study investigated the sustained effectiveness of phonological awareness training on the reading development of 16 children in French immersion who were identified as at-risk readers based on grade 1 English measures. The intervention program provided children from three cohorts with supplemental reading in small groups on…
Descriptors: Phonological Awareness, French, Immersion Programs, At Risk Students
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Czerwionka, Lori; Cuza, Alejandro – Hispania, 2017
The current study examines English-speaking learners of Spanish and their pragmatic development of request forms during a six-week immersion program in Madrid, Spain. Elicited production and intuition data were analyzed, focusing on personal deictic orientation, directness evidenced by clause type, and the use of "por favor"…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Pragmatics
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Spencer, Tamara – Childhood Education, 2012
Beth attends a New York City K-8, dual-language (Spanish/English) public school where 96% of the students qualify as low-income, based on participation in the federally funded lunch program. Early in Beth's 1st-grade year, she was classified as a struggling reader, based on district-wide assessments that identified academic deficits in such skill…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, Intervention, Literacy Education, Writing (Composition)