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Title: Pathways Toward Proficiency: A Case Study of Bilingual Students'Opportunities to Learn Academic Language

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2015

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Abstract: The purpose of this study was to examine bilingual students' opportunities to learn in schools affected by high-stakes accountability policies. Understanding that access to instruction supporting language development is essential to improving bilingual students' opportunities to learn, I examined the ELD program at a bilingual school as well as the ways high-stakes accountability affected the development of academic language in both English and in Spanish. My study was based on the perspective that not only viewed language development in relation to social and contextual factors, but assumed that these social and contextual factors are, in fact, problematic. To this end, I conducted a qualitative case study of six classrooms across two language environments within the same school. Additionally, I followed six students to examine differences in instructional opportunities based on students' levels of proficiency in language and in literacy. My hypothesis was that ELD could not be distinguished from other types of instruction occurring during the literacy block and that students opportunities varied greatly based . . .

Url: https://scholar.colorado.edu/educ_gradetds/62

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Authors: Hernandez, Jaclyn

Institution: University of Colorado Boulder

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education, Other

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