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Teachers' Translanguaging Practices and "Safe Spaces" for Adolescent Newcomers: Toward Alternative Visions
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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)
Bilingual Education Program Models: A Framework for Understanding.
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Roberts, Cheryl A. – Bilingual Research Journal, 1995
Examines the goals, outcomes, and educational costs and benefits of various models of bilingual education: "submersion" (mainstreaming without support); pull-out classes for English as a Second Language; transitional bilingual education; maintenance bilingual education; enrichment, two-way, or developmental bilingual education; and the Canadian…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Educational Benefits, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education
K-6 Bilingual Programs in the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area.
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Medina, Suzanne L. – Bilingual Research Journal, 1995
A large urban California elementary school provides approximately 900 limited-English-proficient students with 3 bilingual programs: full and modified bilingual programs offering varying amounts of content instruction in the native language or sheltered English, and the "English language development" program which uses sheltered English…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Educational Strategies, Elementary Education, English (Second Language)
Bilingual Education for All: A Benefits Model for Small Towns.
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Ngai, Phyllis Bo-yuen – Bilingual Research Journal, 2002
Suggests a curriculum for rural and small-town schools that combines bilingual education in local languages (indigenous, heritage, or immigrant languages) with global, multicultural education. Discusses benefits to students and community, and ways that the model overcomes typical rural constraints of inflexible school organization; administrative…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Educational Benefits
Dual Language Instructional Design for Educating Recent Immigrant Secondary Students on the Texas-Mexico Border.
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Hewlett-Gomez, Michele R.; Solis, Adela – Bilingual Research Journal, 1995
An innovative English and Spanish instructional program for grades six through eight in a south Texas district integrates language and content areas, uses both languages, implements literacy strategies typical of elementary programs, accommodates varying Spanish and English proficiency and limited prior schooling, and employs Mexican teachers as…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Bilingual Teacher Aides, English (Second Language), Immigrants
Important Administrative Tasks Resulting from Understanding Bilingual Program Designs.
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Valverde, Leonard A.; Armendariz, Gloria J. – Bilingual Research Journal, 1999
A review of five types of bilingual programs finds that maintenance and dual-language programs best foster bilingualism, academic achievement, and cultural pluralism, but program implementation and organization also determine effectiveness. Input from bilingual teachers indicates that building administrators must develop and communicate a clear…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Role, Bilingual Education Programs, Bilingualism