Despite the frequent references to identity within the field of heritage language education, it
is only in the past decade or so that scholars have begun to conduct empirical research on …

Background Parent involvement in interventions for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
(ASD) provides parents with education about ASD diagnosis and treatment, improves parent …

This chapter introduces the transdisciplinary research movement of critical discourse
analysis (CDA) beginning with its definition and recent examples of CDA work. In addition …

We examined parental preferences in raising Spanish/English bilingual children. We
identified factors influencing their decisions, and the strategies used to promote bilingualism …

This study examined classroom discourse in two Spanish language courses for Spanish-
English bilingual students at a large university in central Texas, in order to investigate the …

Theoretical models have posited that social contexts influence parental attitudes, which in
turn modulate parental behaviors. The current study asks whether parental attitudes on …

Abstract Language shift is the replacement of one language by another as the primary
means of communication and socialization within a community. In an effort to understand the …

In this review, we expand the conversation on the relations between self-regulation and
language development in early childhood to include the growing population of dual …

This study investigates language attitudes towards English, Spanish and code-switching in
two Texas border cities (Laredo and Edinburg) by means of a matched guise test with three …

Bilingual call centers in El Paso, Texas, an extensively bilingual US-Mexico border setting,
provide a valuable opportunity to examine empirically what occurs with respect to language …