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David Luciano – Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research, 2020
The present study describes a six-week study abroad experience in which two graduate and 12 undergraduate students from Johnson C. Smith University attended Guangdong Baiyun University in China. The purpose of this present study was to better understand how Chinese language immersion programs can develop cultural humility in students. Drawing from…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Chinese, Cultural Awareness, Global Education
Sue Brooks – ProQuest LLC, 2020
To keep the United States economically competitive in a rapidly changing world, business leaders are calling for employment candidates who can work efficiently in a globalized context with both language skills and cross-cultural dispositions critical to the economic success of the country. These language proficiency skills and cross-cultural…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Mandarin Chinese, Immersion Programs
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Shannonhouse, Laura; Barden, Sejal; Mobley, A. Keith – Counselor Education and Supervision, 2015
The authors explore the impact of a 3-week homestay cultural immersion on 10 counselor trainees by analyzing their 210 structured journals using consensual qualitative research. Findings suggest that establishing meaningful relationships and engaging in critical reflection are central to increasing multicultural awareness. Implications for…
Descriptors: Counselor Training, Trainees, Cultural Awareness, Multicultural Education
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Zhang, Zheng – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2019
This case study explored the institutional, programmatic, and classroom literacy curricula of a Canadian offshore school in Macau (school pseudonym: MCS). Undergirded by the conceptual tool of cosmopolitan literacies, this study specifically examined the network effects that influenced the forms of cosmopolitan literacies in MCS's three levels of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Literacy Education, Foreign Countries, International Schools
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Burke, Brigid M., Ed. – Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, 2019
The 2019 Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (CSCTFL), held in conjunction with the Ohio Foreign Language Association (OFLA), was held at the Hilton Downtown Columbus from March 14-16, 2019. In accordance with the goals set forth by the founders of CSCTFL, the 2019 conference endeavored "to support language teachers…
Descriptors: Barriers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Rodríguez-Valls, Fernando; Solsona-Puig, Jordi; Capdevila-Gutiérrez, Maria – Cogent Education, 2017
As many K-6 students enrolled in dual language and bilingual programs enter middle and subsequently high schools that implement similar programs, content area teachers in Spanish face a twofold challenge: to remain aligned with the classroom discourse utilized in Spanish Language Arts (SLAs) and to implement effective strategies while teaching…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Spanish, Language of Instruction, Immersion Programs
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Powell, Dorothy Lewis; Biederman, Donna J. – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2017
A U.S. and Chinese university developed a short-term student exchange program in public/community health. The program--which consisted of lectures, seminars, field trips, cross-cultural experiences, and a synthesis excursion--resulted in high levels of program satisfaction, increased intrapersonal awareness, and skill acquisition. Program content…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Public Health, Immersion Programs, Student Exchange Programs
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Vela, Adriana; Jones, Don; Mundy, Marie-Anne; Isaacson, Carrie – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2017
This ex-post-facto quasi-experimental research design was conducted by selecting a convenient sample of approximately 2,000 3rd grade ELLs who took the regular reading and math English STAAR test during the 2014-15 school year in an urban southern Texas school district. This study was conducted using a quantitative research method of data…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Quasiexperimental Design, Reading Tests, Mathematics Tests
Mackey, Michelle G. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
I conducted 2 experiments in which I tested the effects of a reader immersion procedure on the technical reading comprehension responses to print stimuli for 4 kindergarten students and 3 first grade students. The participants selected for this study textually responded to words at a rate of 80 words correct per minute with 0 incorrect words per…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Immersion Programs, Reading Comprehension, Beginning Reading
Dalton, Kelly Mcgrath – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The urgent call to internationalize teacher education in response to the impact globalization presents in our nation's classrooms, also calls for a fundamental shift in how the field of teacher education provides opportunities of professional learning for teachers. Traditional models of teacher education often fail to develop teachers with the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Qualitative Research, Case Studies
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Serafini, Ellen J.; Rozell, Nadine; Winsler, Adam – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
This study assesses the long-term linguistic and academic outcomes associated with different bilingual language education models for low-income dual language learners (DLLs) residing in a bilingual, bicultural context. As part of the Miami School Readiness Project (MSRP), we analyzed the impact of program model on gains in English language…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Family Relationship, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning
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Fuller, Carrie; Sada, Elena – Journal of Catholic Education, 2022
The multiple academic and social advantages of a dual language education are well known; yet there is little practical guidance for Catholic school leaders who are taking on this whole school change. This paper explores the necessary steps for Catholic school leaders to develop equitable dual language schools. Guided by the Gospel principles of…
Descriptors: Bilingual Schools, Bilingual Education Programs, Catholic Schools, Catholic Educators
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Eberly, John E. – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2018
The purpose of this single-case study was to understand the perceptions of Latino Spanish-speaking English learners on the efficacy of developmental education services at a Western U.S. community college. The primary data collection method was in-depth individual interviews of a purposeful sample of nine successful students. Findings indicated…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Developmental Programs, Case Studies, Spanish Speaking
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Beyer, Carl Kalani – American Educational History Journal, 2018
This article examines counter-hegemony occurring through the development of the Hawaiian language immersion movement, successfully leading to the saving of both Hawaiian culture and the Hawaiian language. After almost 100 years without Hawaiian being the language of instruction, it has re-emerged. Counter-hegemony began in the 1960s with the…
Descriptors: Malayo Polynesian Languages, Hawaiians, Immersion Programs, Cultural Maintenance
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Hansen, Laura Birke; Macizo, Pedro; Duñabeitia, Jon Andoni; Saldaña, David; Carreiras, Manuel; Fuentes, Luis J.; Bajo, M. Teresa – Language Learning, 2016
The present research explores working memory (WM) development in monolingual as well as emergent bilingual children immersed in an L2 at school. Evidence from recent years suggests that bilingualism may boost domain-general executive control, but impair nonexecutive linguistic processing. Both are relevant for verbal WM, but different paradigms…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Second Language Learning, Naming, Verbal Ability
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