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Teachers And Staff's Perceptions Of An Antiracist And Dual Language Bilingual Program At An Urban School, Ximena Soza
Teachers And Staff's Perceptions Of An Antiracist And Dual Language Bilingual Program At An Urban School, Ximena Soza
Theses and Dissertations
This study was conducted in an urban school in the Midwestern region of the United States that implements a two-way bilingual (English- Spanish) and an antiracist program. The focus of the study was to learn about the teachers and staff's perceptions of these two programs. While the study revealed challenges in both programs that can weaken their implementation; most teachers and staff at the school shared a common understanding about antiracist principles. However the school's dual language program was subtractive to minority students (Valenzuela, 1999) since the quality of the Spanish language and culture offered at the school was limited. …
First Language Status And Second Language Writing, Sheryl Stephanie Slocum
First Language Status And Second Language Writing, Sheryl Stephanie Slocum
Theses and Dissertations
In spite of growing numbers in high schools and colleges, US-resident adolescent bilingual learners, sometimes termed "English as a second language" (ESL) or "Generation 1.5," are not succeeding academically in proportion to their monolingual English-speaking peers. This achievement gap is evident in their writing as they enter college. Depending on the elementary and secondary schools they have attended, bilingual learners may have received no extra English learning support (often termed "immersion"), ESL support classes, or bilingual education. In addition, depending on school and community resources, bilingual learners have varying knowledge of their first language (L1): some may only speak it, …