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Oct 26, 2021 · Adopting a multilingual approach in classrooms has proven to be important in increasing students’ academic performance and even closing the achievement gap between students living in cities and...
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Aug 1, 2024 · Language immersion programs involve teaching students in a target language for at least half of their school day. These programs are designed to foster fluency in a second language. This is achieved by integrating language learning with the teaching of subject content.
May 28, 2019 · Employing a mixed-methods research design, this study examines how a newly designed dual language program in an urban school advances language proficiencies among Spanish-English bilingual 6th graders in relation to content area achievement as measured on NYS standardized tests in English Language Arts and Math.
- Janina Brutt-Griffler, Eunjee Jang
- 2019
In Two-Way Bilingual Immersion (TWBI) programs, instruction occurs through two languages, where the target, or non-English, language is used for a significant portion (at least 50%) of the students' instructional day.
- 1 Result 1—Translanguaging as A Gradual Process to Meaning-Making
- 2 Result 2—Translanguaging in Action: Students Exercising Their Agency
- 4 Result 4—Translanguaging For Building An Inclusive Learning Community
During the classroom observations, I noted that students’ level of engagement during the translanguaging tasks developed gradually. In the first round of observations, students looked surprised when teachers deliberately asked them to use their entire linguistic repertoire, including languages and dialects they spoke fluently and others in which th...
When students were engaged in the translanguaging tasks, they often took on the role of the teacher to explain the meaning of words across languages, which may have afforded students with opportunities to exercise their agency. During the classroom observations, I noted that teachers often invited students to explain abstract concepts, words, and l...
One concern that is often raised by language teachers who are willing to use pedagogical translanguaging in a multilingual classroom is whether students will have someone with whom they can talk in the languages in their repertoire. In bilingual programs where most students share the same L1 this is rarely an issue. However, in multilingual classro...
- Angelica Galante
- angelica.galante@mcgill.ca
- 2020
Feb 28, 2014 · This state-of-the-art paper foregrounds mixed-methods research (MMR) in language teaching and learning by discussing and critically reviewing issues related to this newly developed research...
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Undertaken by a consortium of university professors from four continents through a mixed method case study approach across six schools in six nations provided an opportunity, the aims of this study were: 1) to capture how schools, teachers, PYP coordinators and parents made meaning of ‘additional languages’ in IBPYP schools and explore additiona...
