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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Bahr, Ruth Huntley; Silliman, Elaine R.; Danzak, Robin L.; Wilkinson, Louise C. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2015
This study examined the Spanish and English spelling patterns of bilingual adolescents, including the cross-linguistic effects of each language, by applying a fine-grained measure to the differences in spelling in naturalistic writing. Spelling errors were taken from narrative and expository writing samples provided by 20 Spanish-English bilingual…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Spelling, Expository Writing, Spanish
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de Jong, Ester J.; Bearse, Carol I. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2014
Dual language (DL) programs aim to create additive bilingual learning environments where the dominant language and the minority language are given equal status at the program, curricular, and instructional level. While several studies have documented the effectiveness of DL programs and classroom-based practices, few have considered how the…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Immersion Programs, Second Language Learning, Focus Groups
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Parkes, Jay; Ruth, Tenley – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2011
A survey of 724 families of students at eight dual language schools in the southwest United States that focused on parents' satisfaction with their child's academic skills and with program characteristics is reported. Results are explored for parental language, parental education level, program model type, grade level of the child, and years the…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Mathematics Skills, Literacy, Surveys
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Taylor, Shelley K. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2009
Cummins calls on educators to promote critical dialog during micro-interactions with students, times when students acquire knowledge and negotiate their identities. For critical dialog to flourish, educators must create caring environments. The purpose of this paper is to examine whether a discourse of caring was transmitted to ethnic Kurdish…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Minorities, Indo European Languages, Turkish
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Feuer, Avital – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2009
This ethnographic, cross-cultural study used a dialogic, sociolinguistic framework to describe learning processes in portraits of three immersion summer camps in the eastern US. Using the data collection techniques of in-depth interviewing, participant observation and textual analysis, the study examined the process of second language learning and…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Ethnography, Sociolinguistics, Cognitive Structures
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Haneda, Mari – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2008
Within the sociocultural theoretical framework that this paper adopts, learning, including second-language learning, is conceptualised as increasing participation in a community of practice. Thus it becomes of central importance to examine the nature of the community itself and the kinds of participatory opportunities that it supports or…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Middle Schools