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Self-Esteem And Identity: A Case Study Of Two Bilingual Education Students, Julia Gomez Montalvo
Self-Esteem And Identity: A Case Study Of Two Bilingual Education Students, Julia Gomez Montalvo
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This qualitative study focused on the self-esteem, sociocultural identity, and academic performance of transitional and dual language students as they moved through their respective programs. A case study was conducted on two randomly selected students, one from the transitional program and one from the dual language program. The two students attend the same school and have participated in their respective programs for 12 years in the same school district. Both students were asked to complete surveys on self-esteem and participate in an interview where they were asked various questions about their self-esteem, sociocultural identity, and academic performance. Data collected from …
Attitudes Of Parents And Teachers Toward Bilingual Education, Gilda Rios
Attitudes Of Parents And Teachers Toward Bilingual Education, Gilda Rios
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The importance of bilingual education has caught the attention of public school administrators. The current study used a quantitative approach to investigate the perceptions of bilingual education of teachers and parents from a selected elementary school in South Texas. Bilingual education is used in this study to describe the study of two languages among students. The term “bilingual education” can have multiple meanings to many people so we wanted to understand what people believed of educating students among two languages being that the area in which this study was conducted has traditionally rejected bilingual education. There were a total of …