In this study, I explore the potential impact of differing educational policies and reform efforts that influence state and federal standards-based assessments and their interpretations. Specifically, I examine the educational policies of Arizona (Structured English Immersion [SEI]) and Texas (bilingual education) for their effect on the belief systems of students, parents, and teachers. I also examine the role of identity and language in the motivation to learn and student disposition toward school among English Language Learners (ELLs). In support of a co-regulation model of emerging identity, acculturation, acculturative stress, and student perceptions of scholastic competence, student disposition toward school, and student motivational dynamics contributed to the accurate prediction of 77.5% of the participants' group membership in either SEI or bilingual education. ELLs in bilingual education had higher perceptions of scholastic competence than ELLs in SEI (d = .54). Four types of dispositions toward school, Pride in Achieving, Participation and Belonging, Literacy, and Math, were higher for ELLs in bilingual education than for ELLs in SEI. Contrary to the hypothesized results, however, there were no differences in the Rigid and Right disposition between ELLs in SEI and bilingual education. In reference to motivation, scores on Disengaged and Distracting were higher for ELLs in SEI (Arizona) than for ELLs in bilingual programs (Texas). However, contrary to the hypotheses, Good Worker/Engaged Learner, and Struggling and Persistent were higher for ELLs in SEI than for ELLs in bilingual programs. I conclude by discussing the potential impact of differing educational policies and reform efforts on the belief systems of ELLs, their parents, and teachers.

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abstract: ABSTRACT This research is a study of the relationship between language acquisition and the status of equity. The history of the Maya people in Guatemala gives strong evidence that their failure to acquire competence in Spanish, which is the national language of their nation, has resulted in their failure to compete in the social, economic, and political components of their society. It also shows that they have failed to maintain their competence in Mayan, their own language, as a result of mistreatment from their conquerors who have shown a determination to eliminate their use of Mayan. Many Maya have left Guatemala and entered the United States in hope of finding the status of equity which has evaded them for hundreds of years. The key to overcoming their poverty and loss of civil rights can be found in the US through compensatory programs offering them the opportunity of competency in English along with the opportunity to maintain their Mayan language. The US legal system guarantees equal rights for a quality educations for students who are learning English. This study offers some suggestions for integrating the Guatemalan Maya into mainstream activities of the economy and social life of this country. It offers the idea of sustaining and increasing their competency in Mayan as a long-range possibility. The status of equity is available for the children of the Guatemalan refugees who enter the United States as they exercise their rights to a quality education. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Linguistics and Applied Linguistics 2017

abstract: The purpose of this study was to examine the attitudes and opinions of Navajo students toward the Navajo language and culture programs within the schools they were attending. Although in the final year of the No Child Left Behind, a majority of the 265 schools on and near the Navajo reservation have not been making Adequate Yearly Progress, a concern for the parents, teachers, administrators, school board members, and the Navajo Nation. The study entailed conducting a survey at five schools; three of which were not meeting the requirements of the No Child Left Behind. The purpose of the survey instrument (27 questions) administered to the students at the five schools was to examine their attitudes and opinions as to participating in Navajo language and culture programs, to determine if the programs assisted them in their academic achievements, and to examine whether these programs actually made a difference for schools in their Adequate Yearly Progress requirement Approximately 87% of 99 Navajo students, 55 boys and 58 girls, ages 9 through 14, Grades 3 through 8, who lived off the reservation in Flagstaff, Arizona and Gallup, New Mexico, and took the survey knew and spoke Navajo, but less fluently and not to a great extent. However, the students endorsed learning Navajo and strongly agreed that the Navajo language and culture should be part of the curriculum. Historically there have been schools such as the Rock Point Community School, Rough Rock Demonstration School, Borrego Pass Community School, and Ramah Community School that have been successful in their implementation of bilingual programs. The question presently facing Navajo educators is what type of programs would be successful within the context of the No Child Left Behind federal legislation. Can there be replications of successful Navajo language and culture programs into schools that are not making Adequate Yearly Progress? / Dissertation/Thesis / Ed.D. Educational Administration and Supervision 2013

Orientador: Zilda Maria Gesueli Oliveira da Paz / Dissertação (mestrado profissional) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-18T01:43:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Albuquerque_GrazieleKathleenTavaresSantanade_M.pdf: 3589777 bytes, checksum: 755703e5ebc08071e925f7f11226b204 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / Resumo: Por muito tempo a escola desconheceu as especificidades dos alunos surdos e persistiu em trabalhar com eles da mesma forma que com os ouvintes. As mesmas práticas eram e, às vezes ainda são usadas, com as mesmas exigências, desconsiderando-se que os alunos surdos apresentam diferenças linguísticas significativas, que devem ser contempladas em seu processo educacional. Reconhecendo a importância da língua de sinais para o desenvolvimento da criança surda, e levando em consideração a importância da integração e participação efetiva desta no ensino regular, o objetivo geral desta pesquisa é observar e analisar, a partir de práticas de letramento, a inserção de uma criança surda em uma das séries iniciais do ensino fundamental de uma escola inclusiva, possibilitando uma proposta de educação bilíngue. Para a coleta de dados foram desenvolvidas práticas pedagógicas voltadas à interação comunicativa surdo/ouvintes, utilizando-se uma história da literatura clássica infantil, atividades de leitura e escrita e dramatização em LIBRAS (língua brasileira de sinais). Os registros se deram por meio da observação participante, provenientes de diário de campo e filmagens realizadas pela professora/pesquisadora das atividades em sala de aula. A pesquisa mostra as possibilidades de inclusão da criança surda no ensino regular, que se efetivou pelo comprometimento do professor em buscar formação e subsídios para a realização de tal processo, e ainda, propicia uma reflexão sobre novas possibilidades de olhar e avaliar o sujeito surdo na sala de aula inclusiva / Abstract: For many years, schools have ignored the specific needs of deaf students, working with them as if they were hearing students. The same practices were, and often still are used with the same requirements, with no regard to the important linguistic differences deaf students present that should be addressed in their educational processes. This study recognizes the importance of sign language in the development of the deaf child and takes into consideration the importance of integration and effective participation in regular schools. The general aim of this study is to observe and analyze, from the standpoint of literacy practices, how deaf children are included in one elementary education classroom in an inclusive school in order to engender a bilingual education proposal. Data was collected in the context of pedagogical practices that focused on deaf /hearing student interaction, using a story from classical children's literature, reading and writing activities and dramatization in Brazilian Sign Language (Libras). Using participant observation, data was recorded in a field notebook and the teacher/researcher carried out the video and audio recording of classroom activities. The study shows possibilities for including deaf children in regular schools, by highlighting the role of teachers that strive to further their own education, looking for theoretical support to enhance their teaching. The study also enables one to think about new possibilities for understanding and evaluating deaf students in inclusive classrooms / Mestrado / Interdisciplinaridade e Reabilitação / Mestre em Saúde, Interdisciplinaridade e Reabilitação

Le Vanuatu (anciennement Condominium franco-britannique des Nouvelles-Hébrides) est une république indépendante depuis 1980. Située dans le Pacifique Sud, c'est sans doute la nation qui possède la plus grande diversité linguistique au monde per capita, avec environ une centaine de langues mélanésiennes, la lingua franca appelée bislama, et le français et l'anglais, langues d'éducation. Le bislama est un créole lexifié à partir de l'anglais mais dont la grammaire est influencée par le substrat mélanésien. Longtemps langue orale, le bislama joue un rôle prépondérant dans les années 70 pour mener le pays à l'indépendance, ainsi que dans le domaine religieux avec la traduction des évangiles, puis de la bible. Depuis quelques années, le bislama occupe de plus en plus de place et se créolise, en particulier dans les zones urbaines en pleine expansion. Mon travail porte sur l'évolution du bislama écrit à partie de l'analyse d'un corpus qui couvre une période d'environ quarante ans afin d'observer si la langue écrite est en voie d'anglicisation (donc de décréolisation en se rapprochant de la langue source). Mon étude sera donc à la fois diachronique et synchronique et couvrira des documents écrits de la presse, religieux et politiques, ainsi que du matériel éducatif publié en bislama. Plus récemment, la langue écrite est également utilisée pour les SMS, forums de discussions sur sites internet et mails. Bien qu'inscrite dans la constitution comme unique langue nationale du Vanuatu, ainsi que langue officielle avec le français et l'anglais, le bislama n'a pas de place dans le système éducatif officiel ,où seules les deux langues européennes du gouvernement colonial sont utilisées comme langues d'instruction. Le Vanuatu réfléchit à une nouvelle politique linguistique éducative dont le pays va se doter très prochainement, projet qui fait la part belle au bilinguisme anglais/français. Mon travail examinera aussi les raisons de cet état de fait ainsi que les conséquences à la fois sur la langue elle-même et ses répercussions sur le statut du bislama écrit au Vanuatu. / Vanuatu, formerly the Anglo-French Condominium of the New Hebrides, became independent in 1980. Located in the South Pacific region, it is probably the nation with the highest proportion of languages per capita, with more than one hundred indigenous languages, the lingua franca named Bislama, and English and French, the languages of instruction. Bislama is a creole whose lexifier is English but with the grammar of the Melanesian substrate languages. For a long time used orally, it became the language of political fight towards independence in the 1970, along with the language of religion with the translation of the Gospels. Bislama has become more and more widely used in the last forty years, and is now a creole, particularly in the ever expanding urban areas.My study deals with a corpus of written Bislama over a period of roughly fort years so as to find out whether Bislama is decreolising, that is to say getting closer to its lexifier, namely English. My research is both diachronic and synchronic, based on written documents from all the genre: press, religion, political life, poetry, and also taking into account the newer forms of writing such as email or SMS. It also looks at educational material and posters. Event though Bislama is the only national language of the country, is is not given any place-or hardly any- in the official educational system of Vanuatu. Indeed, the two languages of instruction are still French and English. The Government of Vanuatu is thinking of a new Education Language Policy, with a few changes such as the introduction of indigenous languages in the very first years of education, for instance. However, the aim of the policy is to achieve English/French bilingualism by the end of High School, without giving Bislama any role apart from being an instrument to facilitate the learning of other subjects. My research also deals with this aspect of the situation, as well as its consequences on written Bislama in Vanuatu.

Magister Educationis - MEd / In South Africa, there has been little research into the language practices of multilingual students in tertiary institutions or into how such students negotiate identities in these globalising contexts where the dominance of English remains an important factor. This research was aimed at exploring the appropriateness of 1997 Language-In-Education policy for schools and the national Language Policy for Higher Education (2002) for equipping students for tertiary teaching and learning. It therefore investigated the relationship between the language practices and construction of identities of a group of multilingual first year students in the Education Faculty at a Western Cape university. In this integrated institution, in spite of the current political and socio-economic transformation that has been at the centre of new policies, the medium of instruction is still predominantly monolingual. The premise of the research was that in a multilingual country such as South Africa with 11 official languages, tertiary institutions ought to more vigorously engage with their current language policies in order to value and extend the language practices of multilingual students for academic learning. Here multilingual repertoires are understood as resources rather than problems. The research draws extensively on Bourdieu's notion of 'linguistic capital' quantifying language itself as a form of capital with a market value. Through thematic analysis of themes drawn from questionnaires, interviews, focus group discussions, and participant observation in both tutorials and lectures, the investigation concluded that a monolingual medium of instruction to non-native speakers should be practised alongside other languages as means to support in their academic attainment. Finally the research emphasised the importance of code switching as a strategy that facilitates learning and promotes understanding of the role language resources play in social and academic interaction.

Orientador: Carmen Zink Bolonhini / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-14T10:21:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Goldstein_MariaSuelyOliveira_D.pdf: 7907811 bytes, checksum: 726cb0d6333465b9ac30ca46be8cc127 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: Esta Tese se respalda nas seguintes premissas: a) estudos que evidenciem questões culturais e enunciativas devem ocupar um lugar constitutivo no ensino-aprendizagem de língua; b) consideramos que um lugar de destaque para a inserção desses componentes é no currículo de línguas. Uma das vias que propomos, para que esse objetivo seja alcançado, é que se leve em consideração a memória discursiva, que é dada, por exemplo, pela junção entre a literatura e o ensino de língua. No nosso caso, as compilações de contos populares se mostraram muito apropriadas para tal fim, pelo fato de elas registrarem parte da memória e da história dos povos. Essa reivindicação se respalda no postulado de que a "enunciação em outras línguas, ou em variantes diversas da própria língua materna, é uma experiência que mobiliza questões de identidade, e paulatinamente culturais, sejam elas implícitas ou explícitas, presentes em toda aula de língua" (Revuz, 1998). Naquele ambiente, o professor deve, de acordo com o quadro teórico aqui adotado, estar atento aos conflitos de identidade e sociais que se apresentam nas práticas da língua em sala de aula, que são determinados pela própria língua, que materializa a cultura dos sujeitos. Esse professor, observador da discursividade, deve estar alerta para as diferenças enunciativas, no que tange, por exemplo, às inter-relações que ali acontecem. Tal providência visa, entre outras coisas, propiciar, por exemplo, a diluição de mal-entendidos interculturais, provocados pelas diferenças de formação discursiva dos sujeitos. Para contemplar essa proposta, investigamos os currículos bilíngües de dois colégios alemães particulares, situados no Estado de São Paulo. A pesquisa que nesses ambientes é empreendida trata, em grandes linhas, por um lado, do tratamento dado aos domínios sociocultural e literário, nos currículos da educação bilíngüe desses colégios, e, por outro, das compilações em foco e do discurso de professor e alunos - investigando o debate oral, desencadeado pela leitura de contos populares, na construção de práticas letradas orais, em aulas de línguas, do nível II, do Ensino Fundamental, de uma dessas escolas bilíngües. Além disso, também examinamos questões sobre as relações socioculturais do sujeito, aqui especificamente com o meio ambiente, que aparecem nas aulas e nos contos populares pesquisados, observando, além de repetições discursivas (Pêcheux, 1983) sobre esse tema naqueles ambientes e de outros aspectos discursivos que se mostram ali relevantes, a diluição de mal-entendidos interculturais em práticas letradas, mediadas pelo professor e a mobilização de questões de identidade e culturais que ali acontecem. / Abstract: This work is based on the following premises: a) studies that focus on cultural and enunciation issues must have a constitutive place in the teaching-learning of languages; b) we consider the language curriculum to be a central and significant place for the insertion of such components. One of the paths proposed to achieve this objective is to take into consideration the discursive memory, brought about, for instance, by the combination of literature and the teaching of languages. In our case, compilations of popular tales have proven to be very appropriate to this end, as they register part of the memory and history of the people. This affirmation is founded in the assertion that enunciation in other languages, or the many variants of the mother tongue, is an experience that mobilizes issues of identity and culture, either implicit or explicit, throughout the language class (Revuz, 1998). According to the theoretical framework adopted in this study, in that situation, the teacher must be aware of the identity and social conflicts present in the practice of language within the class, determined by the language itself, which materializes the culture of the subjects involved. Such a teacher, observant of discursiveness, must be aware of enunciation differences in relation, for example, to the inter-relations that occur in those circumstances. Among other things, this action aims at promoting, for instance, the clarification of intercultural misunderstandings, resulting from the different discursive background of the subjects. In order to contemplate this proposal, we investigated the curricula of two bilingual (German/Portuguese) private schools in the state of São Paulo. In broad terms, the study conducted in such settings includes, on one hand, the treatment given to the sociocultural and literary domains, in the bilingual education curricula of those schools, and, on the other hand, the compilations mentioned as well as the discourse of both teacher and students, thus investigating oral debates, resultant from the reading of popular tales, in the construction of oral literacy practices, in the language classes of Level II, in Elementary School, in one of the bilingual schools mentioned. In addition to that, issues related to the sociocultural relationships of the subjects, in this case specifically with the environment, which appear in the classes and in the popular tales studied were also examined. Discursive repetitions (Pêcheux, 1983) about the theme in those contexts, as well as other discursive aspects that seemed relevant, the dissolution of intercultural misunderstandings in literacy practices mediated by the teacher, and the mobilization of identity and cultural issues present in the situation were also observed. / Doutorado / Multiculturalismo, Plurilinguismo e Educação Bilingue / Doutor em Linguística Aplicada

Most of the studies conducted on bilingual education emphasize current educational problems. Instructional, administrative, fiscal, and political issues have highlighted the development of serious attempts to produce research accounts of the history of bilingual education in the United States. Nevertheless, it is almost impossible to find an accurate and global account of the legal struggle that allowed bilingual education to survive years of obstacles, intolerance, and success. Without utilization of recollected information on the legal process across the nation dealing with bilingual educational issues, it is rather difficult to make an objective assessment on the legal status of bilingual education within the educational and legal boundaries. This study focuses on the historical repercussions of the laws, consent decrees, and enactments favoring bilingual education across the country, specifically, the impact of those legislations that, according to the researcher's estimation, went beyond the notion of responding to political pressure. The notion of responding to the educational needs of linguistic minority students and the responsibility to a large constituency that would not understand the bilingual education concept produces the middle-road solution called "bilingual education" to pamper an everlasting educational problem. To explain the present situation of bilingual education, in general, and in Massachusetts, in particular, an historical sequence of the most important events affecting education is covered. An historical legal framework is included to provide a better understanding of the nation's educational view through the law and how cultural diversity has affected the development of education nationally. Major legal cases, as well as other legislation in favor of bilingual education, is explored in detail. After reviewing the history of laws, enactments, and consent decrees, and observing the present situation of bilingual education in this country, one has to conclude that bilingual programs have been programmed for failure. This study will enhance the information base of educators, parents, community activists, and others who need to work with linguistic minority students coming from educational systems that have denied them the right to learn. Furthermore, the intent of this dissertation is to put forth information central to the development of initiatives to aid parents, students, and educators in overcoming obstacles created by unclear bilingual laws and biased to bilingualism politicians or school administrators.

This dissertation describes a qualitative case study which examined the process through which one Quaker elementary school, Brinton Friends School (BFS), is becoming a multicultural, anti-racist institution. The research was conducted over a four-month period in 1990 to explore how a school founded on spiritual principles integrates a multicultural change process. Through interviews, observations, and document analysis three aspects of the school's experience were investigated to provide a glimpse at an on-going change process. The first was a description of the concrete steps the school is taking to achieve its goals. These include participation in a multicultural self-assessment program created by the National Association of Independent Schools, racism awareness workshops for all staff, and an analysis of institutional policies and practices to ensure equity. Emphasis has been placed on creating a racially and culturally heterogeneous community. The second aspect explored in this research was the way staff, particularly White staff, feel about this process. Although some forms of resistance were observed, staff at the school are generally supportive of the multicultural change effort. The third area of research was an examination of the specific ways in which a multicultural, anti-racist focus is woven into the Quaker spiritual values of the school. Some tensions were reported between these values and the multicultural, anti-racist process. This research examined whether intrinsic conflicts exist between these two value systems. The key themes of community, conflict, and spirituality emerged during the research at BFS. These three themes form individual yet interrelated perspectives on the environment of the school and its change process. The feeling of community at BFS was cited as important to participants in this study. This sense of community has been nurtured in part by the Quaker spiritual principles at the heart of the school. Yet as in any community of people there are conflicts. At BFS these include how to solve problems, how to be inclusive, and how to define what spirituality means for the school. This research utilizes these themes to provide a picture of one Quaker school in the process of change.