Amy I. Young

List of John Benjamins publications in which Amy I. Young is involved.

Articles

Young, Amy I. 2016 Facilitating functional complexity: Differentiated linguistic scaffolding in two-way Spanish-English immersion Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education 4:2, pp. 251–273 | Article

This article reports on a dissertation study that explored the efficacy of language-focused differentiated instruction targeted to facilitate student oral proficiency development. The study took place in a linguistically diverse Grade 3 immersion classroom. Students’ (n = 24) oral proficiency was… read more

Young, Amy I. and Diane J. Tedick 2016 5. Collaborative dialogue in a two-way Spanish/English immersion classroom: Does heterogeneous grouping promote peer linguistic scaffolding? Peer Interaction and Second Language Learning: Pedagogical potential and research agenda, Sato, Masatoshi and Susan Ballinger (eds.), pp. 135–160 | Article

This chapter contributes to the field of language education by comparing peer interaction patterns during homogeneous and heterogeneous (based on language proficiency) small group work in a two-way immersion context. Using Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory as a theoretical framework, researchers… read more