ERIC Number: EJ1238162
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 21
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Advancing Bilingual Special Education: Translanguaging in Content-Based Story Retells for Distinguishing Language Difference from Disability
Przymus, Steve Daniel; Alvarado, Manuel
Multiple Voices for Ethnically Diverse Exceptional Learners, v19 n1 p23-43 Fall 2019
Many existing assessments for deciding the potential special education needs of emergent bilingual youth are either normed on monolingual students or normed on bilingual students through monolingual data collection (Hamayan, Marler, Sánchez-López, & Damico, 2013; Otheguy, García, & Reid, 2015; Perkins, 2005). To address this issue, we describe a recent study using translanguaging in dynamic assessment with six middle school emergent bilingual youth. Using bilingual language sample analysis of content-based story retells, coded with the Systematic Analysis of Language Transcripts software, we demonstrate how emergent bilingual youth are able to produce more language and content knowledge when given the freedom to translanguage. These quantitative data may improve decisions distinguishing language difference from disability and address issues of disproportionality in special education.
Descriptors: Special Education, Student Needs, Bilingual Students, Translation, Middle School Students, Language Skills, Knowledge Level, Code Switching (Language), Immigrants, Grade 7, Bilingual Education, Story Telling, Students with Disabilities, English Language Learners, Alternative Assessment
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Secondary Education; Elementary Education; Grade 7
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Texas
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