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Raising Awareness Of Bilingual Education: A Website And Resource For Immigrant Parents, Lesi Wang
Raising Awareness Of Bilingual Education: A Website And Resource For Immigrant Parents, Lesi Wang
Master's Projects and Capstones
Under the influence of English Only Movement (Macedo, 2000), bilingual education has been neglected for 18 years in California from Proposition 227 in 1998 to Proposition 58 in 2016. This leads to a result that many immigrant parents were not aware of the importance of bilingual education and have passive attitudes and perceptions towards bilingual education. For example, some immigrant parents think that English is more important than their home language, or that learning their home language will significantly hinder their children’s English acquisition. Yet, according to the three-generation shift suggested by Baker and Wright (2017), immigrant families will often …
Reactions To English Language Learning In Chile As A Means For Personal And National Development, Kortnee Byrd
Reactions To English Language Learning In Chile As A Means For Personal And National Development, Kortnee Byrd
Master's Theses
In our globalized world today, English has developed into the worldwide
language. Chilean leaders, in connection to their development goals to reach a developed
country status by 2020, have highlighted the need for Chilean citizens to become
bilingual in order to attract foreign investment and further integrate into the world
market. Leaders also highlight how English education will serve as an equalizing
measure to combat the socioeconomic inequality that has plagued this country since
Spanish colonization. While the economic benefits are clear, questions remain as to what
the social and cultural costs will be. This research project presents how a …
Teaching Dilemmas: Language Development For English Learners In A Hyper-Segregated Dual Immersion Program, Allison Briceño
Teaching Dilemmas: Language Development For English Learners In A Hyper-Segregated Dual Immersion Program, Allison Briceño
Doctoral Dissertations
English learners (ELs), a growing population in U.S. schools, generally
underperform as compared to their monolingual English peers. One potential solution to this EL achievement gap has been the implementation of Dual Immersion (DI) programs. However, given that ELs are often densely concentrated in schools with limited access to native English-speaking peers, some schools do not have enough native English-speaking
students to constitute a true DI program.
This qualitative study explored language development practices in both Spanish and English in a Northern California hyper-segregated DI elementary school, where almost all the students were English learners. The participants were four Latina …