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- Bilingual education supports students from diverse backgrounds in simultaneously learning a new language while strengthening another skill. Bilingual and biliterate education strengthen the executive function of the brain, which develops skills for functions such as switching attention and working memory.
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Oct 12, 2016 · Allowing children to move fluidly from one language to the next during the school day in reading and writing is one thing that teachers can do. Having a bilingual vocabulary focus is important...
- Collaborative Writing of Life Events
- Authoring Dual Language Texts
- Vocabulary Bridges
- Assessing Students in Spanish as Well as English
- Considering Identity During Reading
- Family Literacy Nights
This activity comes from Manyak’s (2001) study of a first and second grade English immersion class. Although the classroom teacher was prohibited by state and district mandates from using Spanish during instruction, her students (who were all Spanish/English bilinguals) engaged in biliteracy development during a daily literacy activity called “The ...
Researchers often point to the fact that we have entered an era of globalization and transnationalism in which students maintain lives across multiple borders, geographic and otherwise (Medina 2010; Mitchell 2000 as cited in Taylor et al. 2008). Taylor et al. (2008) assert that we must “reframe identity and literacy as transnational trajectories ra...
Emergent bilinguals bring unique capabilities to learning new words in English. Their developing vocabularies are distributed across Spanish and English and the links to the underlying concepts represented by the words may vary depending on how deeply the concept has been reinforced in the students’ experiences and where they are developmentally in...
Students who enter school with native language literacy skills or those who receive native language literacy instruction deserve the opportunity to demonstrate what they know when it is assessment time. While there are still no assessments of biliteracy as a construct in and of itself, it is often feasible for teachers to assess key skills in Engli...
Culturally relevant pedagogies recognize biliteracy as a viable and valuable goal and seek to engage students in culturally affirming practices in the classroom that support biliteracy development. Including culturally relevant children’s literature in the classroom can be one such affirming practice (Desai 1997; Naidoo 2011). Rosenblatt (1978) and...
Rodríguez-Valls (2011) implemented a cooperative parent–child reading program at an elementary school in southern California with the explicit goal of supporting biliteracy development regardless of whether students were enrolled in bilingual or English immersion classrooms. Latino/a parents and their first graders attended a series of family liter...
- Anne Delbridge, Lori A. Helman
- 2016
Jan 29, 2019 · Read on to discover the science behind literacy development and why it puts bilingual students at an advantage. Then, learn strategies to help bilingual students use their strengths to develop biliteracy.
Feb 22, 2021 · With Owens and Adele’s help, let’s explore three key benefits of student biliteracy. 1. Improved Reading Fluency in English. Bilingual learners are discovering how language works. Their active, flexible brains develop the ability to transfer skills learned in one language over to the other.
Bilingualism and biliteracy are not uncommon, as more than half the world’s population speaks and learns to read more than one language. Growing globalization in commerce and immigration have motivated countries across the globe to adopt policies promoting bilingual education.
Biliteracy is fostered when bilingual children have the opportunity to engage in literacy practices in both their languages in the classroom rather than being subjected to an English-only educational setting (Reyes 2012). Anne Delbridge polse001@umn.edu.
The College of Education is conducting research on: Bilingual education policy and law. Policies and learning instruction programs for multilingual students. Understanding how curriculum and instruction can support biliteracy. Assessment of ELL students for special education services.
