(1971). Composition at the Advanced Level: A Teacher's Guide to Connected Paragraph Construction for Advanced Level Foreign Students. English Record, 21, 4, 53-64, Apr 71. …
(1969). Education \for\ American Indians: Threat or Promise?. Florida F L Rep, 7, 1, 15-19, 154, 69 Spr/Sum. Results of this Carnegie Corporation of New York sponsored research project in literacy training among the Cherokee Indians of Eastern Oklahoma indicate that alienation rather than lack of opportunity is the chief difficulty in American Indian education. Appears in \The Florida FL Reporter special anthology issue \Linguistic-Cultural Differences and American Education. (FWB)…
(1982). Peer Interaction, Language Proficiency, and Language Preference in Bilingual Preschool Classrooms. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, v4 n4 p467-86 Dec. Classroom interactional patterns by language choice and speech partner of six four-year old Spanish-preferring children in a bilingual preschool, observed over one year, indicated that those children using relatively more English with peers in the classroom and increasing their English usage over time generally showed the greatest increases in English proficiency. (Author/NQA)…
(1980). Experimentation d'une nouvelle approche en immersion (An Experiment in a New Immersion Approach). Canadian Modern Language Review, v36 n3 p422-33 Mar. Examines research on the effectiveness of bilingual French/English "immersion" programs v French/English "intensive" programs consisting of a regular curriculum in English plus an intensive five-month oral French program. (AM)…
(1981). Learning a Second Language. Clearing House, v54 n7 p326-29 Mar. The author presents a rationale for kindergarten English instruction for the five-year-old Spanish-dominant child. To support his view, he cites research on cognitive development and language acquisiton during early childhood and discusses the appropriateness of the kindergarten environment for language learning. (SJL)…
(1980). Parental Decision for French Immersion: A Look at Some Influencing Factors. Canadian Modern Language Review, v36 n2 p238-46 Jan. Reports on a research study seeking to determine why a large percentage of English-speaking Canadian parents do not enroll their primary-aged children in French immersion programs. (AM)…
(1996). Word-Weaving: Exploring Meaning in the Multilingual Classroom. Multicultural Teaching, v15 n1 p12-7 Aut. Describes an approach to lexical meaning in multilingual primary classrooms illustrated in the "Word-Weaving" project in a British school. Word weaving is a set of strategies to identify lexical demands of learning topics and to build opportunities for word meaning exploration into classroom discourse. (SLD)…
(1990). All in the Family: Bilingualism and Biliteracy. Reading Teacher, v44 n4 p306-12 Dec. Discusses the goals of Project Family Initiative for English Literacy (FIEL) and the rationale for the model on which it is based. Describes the curriculum and the content of the five-step lessons. Provides an example of one family's literacy growth within the project. (MG)…
(1993). Literacy Learning of Adults in a Bilingual ESL Classroom. Alberta Journal of Educational Research, v39 n4 p393-406 Dec. A Canadian bilingual ESL program for Cambodians was taught by an experienced English-speaking ESL teacher and a Cambodian-speaking coteacher. Observations, interviews, and journal analysis showed that a bilingual monocultural format encouraged student participation and peer teaching and that second-language learning was facilitated by first-language literacy. (KS)…
(1994). SPARK: A Bilingual Family Literacy Program. State of Reading, v1 n2 p9-13 Fall. Describes Special Parents Are Reading to Kids (SPARK), a program at an elementary school in Clute, Texas, which is a family literacy program for both English-speaking and Spanish-speaking parents, which teaches them how to share books with their children. (SR)…
(1993). A Comparison of Planning and Personnel Factors in Bilingual Programs among Exemplary, Non-exemplary, and Accreditation Notice Schools. Bilingual Research Journal, v17 n3-4 p99-115 Sum-Fall. A survey of 169 educators examined aspects of instructional leadership in elementary bilingual programs. Bilingual programs in exemplary schools differed from those in average schools or schools on accreditation notice in identification procedures, teacher involvement in program development and evaluation, and training in the use of pacing of first and second language instruction. Includes survey questions. (Author/SV)…
(1998). Early Childhood Bilingualism in the Montessori Children's House: Guessable Context and the Planned Environment. Spotlight: Montessori–Multilingual, Multicultural. Montessori Life, v10 n2 p37-48 Spr. Describes the InterCultura Montessori School language immersion program in Oak Park, Illinois. Profiles the work of several children to illustrate important language learning strategies. Recommends that language immersion programs include: survival vocabulary skills; repetition of key grammatical forms; use of objects, pictures, and dramatization; group readings; buddies/helpers; message and listening centers; and use of prior knowledge. (KB)…
(2000). Multicultural Technology Integration: The Winds of Change Amid the Sands of Time. Computers in the Schools, v16 n3-4 p121-34. This case study describes how a high school language arts teacher in a poor border community in southern New Mexico combined technology-based teaching strategies with multicultural elements to ensure learning and equitable access to technology for her minority students. Discusses bilingual and bicultural students, constructivist classrooms, and instructional flexibility. (Author/LRW)…
(1996). Empirical or Rationalist? Some Theories of Language Learning Reviewed. Multicultural Teaching, v14 n2 p44-46 Spr. Compares the empiricist approach of structural linguistics with the rationalist approach to language learning. In practice, a combination of ideas from both philosophies is usually applied to the instruction of second-language learners. Language learning occurs even in the absence of theory. (SLD)…
(1999). Designing a Model-based Methodology for Science Instruction: Lessons from a Bilingual Classroom. Bilingual Research Journal, v23 n2-3 p147-78 Spr-Sum. Students in a grade 2-3, two-way bilingual classroom increased their understanding of scientific practice through a model-based methodology for science instruction. Students collaborated with peers and teachers to create computer models, construct physical models, and talk about their models in the classroom. Aspects of second language usage in this context are discussed. (Contains 27 references.) (Author/SV)…