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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)
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)
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