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Varied Responses to Bilingual Education
This final ethnographic chapter focuses on South Tyrolean responses to second language learning issues by concentrating on how parents, students,...
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Four decades after Castañeda: a critical analysis of Bilingual/Dual Language Education in Colorado
The Castañeda Standard was handed down in 1981. We use this Standard along with Latino Critical Race Theory (Solorzano & Yosso,
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Black lives matter versus Castañeda v. Pickard: a utopian vision of who counts as bilingual (and who matters in bilingual education)
Castañeda v. Pickard established a precedent for evaluating bilingual programs in relation to the soundness of the educational theory on which they...
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Bilingual (Irish-English) phonemic awareness: language-specific and universal contributions
This paper examines the construct of bilingual phonemic awareness in Irish-English bilinguals. Though traditionally viewed as a skill or ability...
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Predictors of Chinese reading in Chinese monolingual and Chinese–English bilingual children in Mainland China
There is a growing number of children learning to read in bilingual environments, yet research on the uniqueness of reading acquisition in these...
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Vocabulary limitations undermine bilingual children’s reading comprehension despite bilingual cognitive strengths
Previous research reported bilingual cognitive strengths in working memory, executive function and novel-word learning skills (Bialystok in Psychol...
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Bilingual teacher educators as language policy agents: A critical language policy perspective of the Castañeda v. Pickard case and the bilingual teacher shortage
Drawing on decades of lessons from a Bilingual Teacher Education Program (BTEP) in California that has persevered both restrictive and additive...
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Proficiency and compensatory strategies in bilingual children’s Mandarin Chinese narrative
Narrative skills play an important role in children’s reading, communication, and critical thinking. Most studies on narrative skills are based on...
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Introducing English Bilingual (Education) Project
How to help the students to self-generate the bilingual skills? We may use the conception of the language of thought—mentalese to achieve that...
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Bilingual Education in Brazil
Brazil does not currently have an approved education policy for Portuguese-English bilingual programs, which is problematic in terms of considering...
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Bilingual children’s perceived family language policy and its contribution to leisure reading
This study investigated and compared family language policies (FLPs) from the perspectives of two groups of Singaporean bilingual children: 2,971...
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Does the reading acceleration program improve reading fluency and comprehension in emergent bilingual children?
It has been suggested that the reading acceleration program (RAP) (Breznitz et al. in Nature Communications 4: 1486, 2013), in which participants are...
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The development of a labelled te reo Māori–English bilingual database for language technology
Te reo Māori (referred to as Māori), New Zealand’s indigenous language, is under-resourced in language technology. Māori speakers are bilingual,...
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RAN and two languages: a meta-analysis of the RAN-reading relationship in bilingual children
RAN (Rapid Automatized Naming) is known to be a robust predictor of reading development in different languages. Much less is known about RAN...
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Impacts of the COVID-19 disruption on the language and literacy development of monolingual and heritage bilingual children in the United States
Children who speak one language at home and a different language at school may be at higher risk of falling behind in their academic achievement when...
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The contribution of intrinsic motivation and home literacy environment to Singaporean bilingual children’s receptive vocabulary
This study examined the within- and cross-language relationships between intrinsic language learning motivation, home literacy environment (shared...
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The Bilingual Brain
The knowledge about the bilingual brainBilingual brain is new. And it has been discovered quite recently in the twenty-first century. The studies on...
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“Now it’s all upper-class parents who are checking out schools”: gentrification as coloniality in the enactment of two-way bilingual education policies
Bilingual education as a whole has been gentrifying, as more privileged students replace Transnational Language Learners (TLLs) in bilingual...
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The summary writing performance of bilingual learners with reading difficulties
Summary writing is an important tactic for learning from text and the summaries provide information on students’ comprehension and learning...
