Alain Bengochea
Biographic Data
| ID | 4604965 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alain Bengochea |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alain |
| FAMILY NAME | Bengochea |
| SIGNATURE | BENGOCHEA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nevada, Las Vegas |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4602-3676 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Artificial Intelligence to Support Oral Reading Fluency Assessment in English and Spanish for Students With Reading Disabilities
Large Language Models (LLM) have the capacity to quickly produce passages of varying lengths, complexity, genres, and topics, which could be useful for teachers of mono- and multilingual students with reading-specific learning disabilities, specifically relating to monitoring oral reading fluency (ORF). This study addressed one primary research question with two sub-questions. Research Question 1: What is the quality of third-grade ORF passages g…
“Show Me How You Can Practice That”
When providing socioemotional instruction to emergent bilingual children, preschool teachers are responsible for helping them navigate cultural and linguistic intersections of socioemotional learning. Teachers' multimodal practices may support that instruction, given that the children's socioemotional learning is an emotional, physical, and psychological endeavor. Through multimodality and communities of practice theoretical lenses, we investigat…
Toward a translanguaging-as-resource orientation
Recognizing the importance of emergent bilinguals’ linguistic resources in English-medium settings, TESOL teacher preparation programs are increasingly centering translanguaging theory to guide pedagogical practices. This mixed-method study examines changes in 77 prekindergarten to 12th grade teachers’ translanguaging beliefs and practices after participating in a translanguaging-focused graduate course. We use a dependent-sample analysis of vari…
Access to early care and education for Nevada’s infants and toddlers
Morning circle as a community of practice
To understand how verbal, visual, and actional modalities serve dual language bilingual education instruction and learning in the preschool activity of Morning Circle (MC), we ask: (a) What is the nature of teachers’ transmodal practices to facilitate MC activity? (b) How do teacher pairs orchestrate transmodal practices across MC activities? Using a communities of practice perspective, we explore how co-teacher pairs establish a nexus of high-va…
A Nationwide Multidimensional Examination of Early Care and Education Access
Research Findings: As a result of inequitable early care and education access, state and federal policies have prioritized improving access and better serving diverse and traditionally underserved families. This study uses a multidimensional conceptualization of access, which includes reasonable effort, affordability, child development, and family needs, to classify early education centers that serve 4-year-olds into latent profiles. Using nation…
Sustainable translanguaging pedagogy in support of the vulnerable language
Show-and-Tell activity provides emergent bilingual (EB) children with an opportunity to engage oral language skills to support their developing bi/literacy. In dual language bilingual education (DLBE) preschool programs, teachers utilize translanguaging practices to facilitate communication, scaffold learning, and encourage participation. Using a sustainable translanguaging lens, we explore English- and Spanish-language model teachers' pedagogica…
Translanguaging for varying discourse functions in sociodramatic play
This exploratory multiple case study investigated how preschool-age, Spanish-English emergent bilingual (EB) children with diverse language profiles leverage their discursive resources to engage with peers and teachers in sociodramatic play (SDP) interactions. Data were collected over the course of one academic year, including weekly video recordings of child-peer and child–teacher interactions in SDP activity. A dynamic conceptualization of bili…
“Want me to show you?”
Exploring the object-sourced transmodal practices of an emergent bilingual child in sociodramatic play
This case study explores how an emergent bilingual preschooler used transmodal practices to engage with objects and compose narratives in sociodramatic play. Video recordings and field notes were collected in a dual language preschool classroom in the United States to examine the actional, verbal, and visual modes used by the focal child during his engagement with objects. An action-oriented analysis using multimodal discourse and mediated action…
Print knowledge in Yucatec Maya–Spanish bilingual children
This study serves as an initial inquiry regarding the early print knowledge of emergent bilingual preschool-age children living in an Indigenous community in Mexico. In this research, we examine various dimensions of print knowledge with Yucatec Maya–Spanish bilingual children for whom one of their languages (Yucatec Maya) is seldom seen in print forms in mainstream classrooms and curricula. A total of 84 emergent bilingual children were assessed…
Maternal Inferential Input and Children's Language Skills
Researchers have consistently found a link between the quality of early parent–child book‐reading interactions and children's language skill. Two aspects of quality (level of abstraction and utterance function) were examined simultaneously in the current study to further refine our understanding of how parents’ talk during shared reading predicts children's vocabulary growth and elicits children's participation in book reading. To achieve this ai…
Becoming biliterate
Becoming biliterate: identity, ideology, and learning to read and write in two languages, by Bobbie Kabuto, New York, Routledge, 2011, 160 pp., US$42 (paperback), ISBN 9780203846438, US$145 (hardba
Photography and Oral History as a Means of Chronicling the Homeless in Miami
This article describes the use of Photography and Oral History research methods as part of a collaborative research project on homelessness in Miami. Issues involving the use of documentary photography and oral history as a means of creating greater social awareness in the general public are explored, as well as broader issues of Social Justice
A Nationwide Multidimensional Examination of Early Care and Education Access
Research Findings: As a result of inequitable early care and education access, state and federal policies have prioritized improving access and better serving diverse and traditionally underserved families. This study uses a multidimensional conceptualization of access, which includes reasonable effort, affordability, child development, and family needs, to classify early education centers that serve 4-year-olds into latent profiles. Using nation…
Exploring the object-sourced transmodal practices of an emergent bilingual child in sociodramatic play
This case study explores how an emergent bilingual preschooler used transmodal practices to engage with objects and compose narratives in sociodramatic play. Video recordings and field notes were collected in a dual language preschool classroom in the United States to examine the actional, verbal, and visual modes used by the focal child during his engagement with objects. An action-oriented analysis using multimodal discourse and mediated action…
Maternal Inferential Input and Children's Language Skills
Researchers have consistently found a link between the quality of early parent–child book‐reading interactions and children's language skill. Two aspects of quality (level of abstraction and utterance function) were examined simultaneously in the current study to further refine our understanding of how parents’ talk during shared reading predicts children's vocabulary growth and elicits children's participation in book reading. To achieve this ai…
Photography and Oral History as a Means of Chronicling the Homeless in Miami
This article describes the use of Photography and Oral History research methods as part of a collaborative research project on homelessness in Miami. Issues involving the use of documentary photography and oral history as a means of creating greater social awareness in the general public are explored, as well as broader issues of Social Justice
Photography and Oral History as a Means of Chronicling the Homeless in Miami
This article describes the use of Photography and Oral History research methods as part of a collaborative research project on homelessness in Miami. Issues involving the use of documentary photography and oral history as a means of creating greater social awareness in the general public are explored, as well as broader issues of Social Justice
Becoming biliterate
Becoming biliterate: identity, ideology, and learning to read and write in two languages, by Bobbie Kabuto, New York, Routledge, 2011, 160 pp., US$42 (paperback), ISBN 9780203846438, US$145 (hardba
Print knowledge in Yucatec Maya–Spanish bilingual children
This study serves as an initial inquiry regarding the early print knowledge of emergent bilingual preschool-age children living in an Indigenous community in Mexico. In this research, we examine various dimensions of print knowledge with Yucatec Maya–Spanish bilingual children for whom one of their languages (Yucatec Maya) is seldom seen in print forms in mainstream classrooms and curricula. A total of 84 emergent bilingual children were assessed…
Maternal Inferential Input and Children's Language Skills
Researchers have consistently found a link between the quality of early parent–child book‐reading interactions and children's language skill. Two aspects of quality (level of abstraction and utterance function) were examined simultaneously in the current study to further refine our understanding of how parents’ talk during shared reading predicts children's vocabulary growth and elicits children's participation in book reading. To achieve this ai…
“Want me to show you?”
Exploring the object-sourced transmodal practices of an emergent bilingual child in sociodramatic play
This case study explores how an emergent bilingual preschooler used transmodal practices to engage with objects and compose narratives in sociodramatic play. Video recordings and field notes were collected in a dual language preschool classroom in the United States to examine the actional, verbal, and visual modes used by the focal child during his engagement with objects. An action-oriented analysis using multimodal discourse and mediated action…
Translanguaging for varying discourse functions in sociodramatic play
This exploratory multiple case study investigated how preschool-age, Spanish-English emergent bilingual (EB) children with diverse language profiles leverage their discursive resources to engage with peers and teachers in sociodramatic play (SDP) interactions. Data were collected over the course of one academic year, including weekly video recordings of child-peer and child–teacher interactions in SDP activity. A dynamic conceptualization of bili…
Sustainable translanguaging pedagogy in support of the vulnerable language
Show-and-Tell activity provides emergent bilingual (EB) children with an opportunity to engage oral language skills to support their developing bi/literacy. In dual language bilingual education (DLBE) preschool programs, teachers utilize translanguaging practices to facilitate communication, scaffold learning, and encourage participation. Using a sustainable translanguaging lens, we explore English- and Spanish-language model teachers' pedagogica…
Morning circle as a community of practice
To understand how verbal, visual, and actional modalities serve dual language bilingual education instruction and learning in the preschool activity of Morning Circle (MC), we ask: (a) What is the nature of teachers’ transmodal practices to facilitate MC activity? (b) How do teacher pairs orchestrate transmodal practices across MC activities? Using a communities of practice perspective, we explore how co-teacher pairs establish a nexus of high-va…
A Nationwide Multidimensional Examination of Early Care and Education Access
Research Findings: As a result of inequitable early care and education access, state and federal policies have prioritized improving access and better serving diverse and traditionally underserved families. This study uses a multidimensional conceptualization of access, which includes reasonable effort, affordability, child development, and family needs, to classify early education centers that serve 4-year-olds into latent profiles. Using nation…
Artificial Intelligence to Support Oral Reading Fluency Assessment in English and Spanish for Students With Reading Disabilities
Large Language Models (LLM) have the capacity to quickly produce passages of varying lengths, complexity, genres, and topics, which could be useful for teachers of mono- and multilingual students with reading-specific learning disabilities, specifically relating to monitoring oral reading fluency (ORF). This study addressed one primary research question with two sub-questions. Research Question 1: What is the quality of third-grade ORF passages g…
“Show Me How You Can Practice That”
When providing socioemotional instruction to emergent bilingual children, preschool teachers are responsible for helping them navigate cultural and linguistic intersections of socioemotional learning. Teachers' multimodal practices may support that instruction, given that the children's socioemotional learning is an emotional, physical, and psychological endeavor. Through multimodality and communities of practice theoretical lenses, we investigat…
Toward a translanguaging-as-resource orientation
Recognizing the importance of emergent bilinguals’ linguistic resources in English-medium settings, TESOL teacher preparation programs are increasingly centering translanguaging theory to guide pedagogical practices. This mixed-method study examines changes in 77 prekindergarten to 12th grade teachers’ translanguaging beliefs and practices after participating in a translanguaging-focused graduate course. We use a dependent-sample analysis of vari…
Access to early care and education for Nevada’s infants and toddlers
Multilingual Education and Policy (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Pedagogy (7 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (6 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Literacy (4 works) · Translanguaging (4 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works)