Sabrina F Sembiante
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 244559 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Sabrina F Sembiante |
| PRENOMES | Sabrina F |
| SOBRENOME | Sembiante |
| ASSINATURA | SEMBIANTE S F |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Florida Atlantic University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9948-5268 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2010 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Emergent bilingual preschoolers’ verbal and embodied engagement behaviors in read aloud
Shared reading is a crucial site for children’s emerging reading skills when children engage affectively, behaviorally, and cognitively in the reading process. To inform a more holistic, collective, and inclusive view of observable engagement in read aloud (RA) behaviors, authors examined EB preschoolers’ micro-moment engagement behaviors to understand how they recruit their verbal and embodied modes to attend to RAs and how these behaviors align…
“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…
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…
Pedagogical practices, curriculum development, and student experiences within postsecondary music education
This systematic literature review seeks to examine the pedagogical practices, professional relationships, and curricular development that impact teachers’ and students’ experiences in the postsecondary music education field as well as the theoretical frameworks and methodological design guiding the inquiry of included studies. A literature search following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines …
How the Amount of Teacher Spanish Use interacts with Classroom Quality to Support English/Spanish DLLs’ Vocabulary
Research Findings: We examined the amount of preschool lead/assistant teachers’ English/Spanish language use and relations between quality of teacher-child interactions, and Dual Language Learners’ (DLLs) English/Spanish bilingual vocabulary in 31 English-medium Head Start classrooms. Measures in this study included (a) children’s conceptual English/Spanish bilingual receptive and expressive vocabulary, (b) classroom quality via systematic observ…
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
Translanguaging research has documented language practices within the multilingual, multimodal turn and the post-multilingualism era. Space still remains for inquiry into translanguaging practices that respect and align with students’ multilingual affordances across languages. How might these practices counteract monoglossic pressures in classrooms and their appearance in/through teacher-student dynamics? Growing attention given to bi/multilingua…
A systematic review of research on LGBTQ educators’ experiences and LGBTQ curriculum in K-12 U.S. public schools
Language teacher candidates’ SFL development
Few studies in language teacher education programs provide insight on how knowledge of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) is developed by teacher candidates to support their metalinguistic awareness and preparation to teach language. Building upon the contributions of Johnson and Byrnes, we combined Halliday’s language-based theory of learning with a sociocultural view of the development of an SFL knowledge base for language teaching. Specific…
Culturally sustaining approaches to academic languaging through systemic functional linguistics
Historically, academic language (AL) has been a highly contentious and debated construct, criticized because of its framing as a set of objective linguistic forms requisite in academic settings, as being more specialized and complex than non-academic registers, and prioritizing White linguistic practices. Educators in support of AL instruction view it as an inherent part of each academic discipline and, therefore, as a tool for equity and access …
Facilitating culturally sustaining, functional literacy practices in a middle school Esol reading program
This paper explores how Culturally Sustaining Systemic Functional Linguistics (CSSFL), a theoretical and pedagogical approach, facilitates emergent bilingual (EB) students’ engagement in explicit, equitable literacy practices within the unique context of a middle school intensive reading classroom. This design-based research (DBR) study documents the literacy practices and routines of EBs in a culturally and linguistically diverse intensive readi…
“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…
Internationalizations in two loci of enunciation
This paper confronts epistemological myopia to decolonize academic knowledge by exposing scholars' loci of enunciation to localize knowledge that are often taken as universal. In doing so, we reflect about the process of internationalization of higher education (IHE), from two different loci of enunciation--one in the Global South (UFES) and another in the Global North (FAU). Based on the claim that language policies are closely related to intern…
Different When I Opened My Mouth
This article explores experiences, reflections, and perspectives of actual or perceived linguistic discrimination as experienced by four Latina/o and one White foreign-born professors currently working in research universities across the United States. Building on the literature on linguistic discrimination and the theoretical framing of LangCrit, the authors exemplify instances of linguistic discrimination resulting from a member of the majority…
A case for a functional linguistic knowledge base in world language teacher education
This article contributes to broader discussions of the knowledge base for language teacher education; the standards and policies that inform world language teacher education; and the need for a systematic, principled, and robust theory of language to underpin contexualized world language teaching and learning. Specifically, it proposes that the foundation for world language teacher education be broadened and that the linguistics component of the …
Translated science textbooks in dual language programs
A comparative lexicogrammatical and logicosemantic systemic functional analysis of two third-grade science curricular units on the topic of “matter” written in Spanish is presented. One of these curricular units, translated from an English textbook, or “mirror text,” is used in dual language programs (Spanish-English) in the United States; the other is used in regular elementary science for monolingual Spanish students in some Latin American coun…
Combating Racial Inequity Through Local Historical Analysis
One way for teachers to use engaging and relevant social studies curriculum is by delving into local history to help students understand the influence that community activists have had on national policies and events. In this article, we provide teachers an approach to incorporate topics of racial inequity in their classrooms by showcasing a dynamic social studies unit that reveals the role of local history and community activists during the nati…
What’s in a Name? A Critical Literacy and Functional Linguistic Analysis of Immigrant Acculturation in Contemporary Picture Books
This article investigates how immigrant children’s acculturation experiences are characterized through the symbolic literary feature of name in children’s literature and how the language of the text functions to communicate these messages. We draw on the theoretical frameworks of Critical Literacy (CL) and Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) to inform our analysis, showcasing how the connection and interrelation of these theories maximizes the …
Translanguaging and the multilingual turn
New challenges in education, stemming from the forces of globalization and the continued diversification of the student body, illuminate the need for a reexamination of the role of language in curriculum studies. Through a discussion of the issues around multilingualism and translanguaging and the shift in perspective that these topics have provoked in the fields of SLA, TESOL, BE, I present the relevance and implications of this critical languag…
Navigating Hybridized Language Learning Spaces Through Translanguaging Pedagogy
In recent years, there has been a growing interest among policymakers, practitioners, and researchers in early bilingual development and the unique role of the educational setting’s language policy in this development. In this article, we describe how one dual language preschool teacher, in partnership with two co-teachers, navigated the tensions between language separation ideology and its practical realization in early bilingual education by co…
Function, Type, and Distribution of Teacher Questions in Dual-Language Preschool Read Alouds
This exploratory study investigated the nature and distribution of dual-language preschool teachers' questions across parallel Spanish- and English-medium read-aloud activities. The notions of comprehensible input (CitationKrashen, 1985) and language output (CitationSwain, 1985), along with a reciprocal interaction model of teaching (CitationCummins, 2000), guided our understanding of teachers' use of questions to engage students in book-based ex…
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
What Students Need, What Students Say They Want
Despite the wealth of studies on smaller learning communities (SLCs), student voices are missing from the debate on high school reform. This article examines how students experience SLCs. A participatory research method, data-in-a-day was used to provide a systematic and inclusive method for gathering data on student perceptions. Data-in-a-day is a quick and efficient way of collecting, analyzing, and synthesizing a broad spectrum of data that ca…
A case for a functional linguistic knowledge base in world language teacher education
This article contributes to broader discussions of the knowledge base for language teacher education; the standards and policies that inform world language teacher education; and the need for a systematic, principled, and robust theory of language to underpin contexualized world language teaching and learning. Specifically, it proposes that the foundation for world language teacher education be broadened and that the linguistics component of the …
Translanguaging and the multilingual turn
New challenges in education, stemming from the forces of globalization and the continued diversification of the student body, illuminate the need for a reexamination of the role of language in curriculum studies. Through a discussion of the issues around multilingualism and translanguaging and the shift in perspective that these topics have provoked in the fields of SLA, TESOL, BE, I present the relevance and implications of this critical languag…
Function, Type, and Distribution of Teacher Questions in Dual-Language Preschool Read Alouds
This exploratory study investigated the nature and distribution of dual-language preschool teachers' questions across parallel Spanish- and English-medium read-aloud activities. The notions of comprehensible input (CitationKrashen, 1985) and language output (CitationSwain, 1985), along with a reciprocal interaction model of teaching (CitationCummins, 2000), guided our understanding of teachers' use of questions to engage students in book-based ex…
What’s in a Name? A Critical Literacy and Functional Linguistic Analysis of Immigrant Acculturation in Contemporary Picture Books
This article investigates how immigrant children’s acculturation experiences are characterized through the symbolic literary feature of name in children’s literature and how the language of the text functions to communicate these messages. We draw on the theoretical frameworks of Critical Literacy (CL) and Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) to inform our analysis, showcasing how the connection and interrelation of these theories maximizes the …
What Students Need, What Students Say They Want
Despite the wealth of studies on smaller learning communities (SLCs), student voices are missing from the debate on high school reform. This article examines how students experience SLCs. A participatory research method, data-in-a-day was used to provide a systematic and inclusive method for gathering data on student perceptions. Data-in-a-day is a quick and efficient way of collecting, analyzing, and synthesizing a broad spectrum of data that ca…
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…
Internationalizations in two loci of enunciation
This paper confronts epistemological myopia to decolonize academic knowledge by exposing scholars' loci of enunciation to localize knowledge that are often taken as universal. In doing so, we reflect about the process of internationalization of higher education (IHE), from two different loci of enunciation--one in the Global South (UFES) and another in the Global North (FAU). Based on the claim that language policies are closely related to intern…
Translated science textbooks in dual language programs
A comparative lexicogrammatical and logicosemantic systemic functional analysis of two third-grade science curricular units on the topic of “matter” written in Spanish is presented. One of these curricular units, translated from an English textbook, or “mirror text,” is used in dual language programs (Spanish-English) in the United States; the other is used in regular elementary science for monolingual Spanish students in some Latin American coun…
Combating Racial Inequity Through Local Historical Analysis
One way for teachers to use engaging and relevant social studies curriculum is by delving into local history to help students understand the influence that community activists have had on national policies and events. In this article, we provide teachers an approach to incorporate topics of racial inequity in their classrooms by showcasing a dynamic social studies unit that reveals the role of local history and community activists during the nati…
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
What Students Need, What Students Say They Want
Despite the wealth of studies on smaller learning communities (SLCs), student voices are missing from the debate on high school reform. This article examines how students experience SLCs. A participatory research method, data-in-a-day was used to provide a systematic and inclusive method for gathering data on student perceptions. Data-in-a-day is a quick and efficient way of collecting, analyzing, and synthesizing a broad spectrum of data that ca…
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
Function, Type, and Distribution of Teacher Questions in Dual-Language Preschool Read Alouds
This exploratory study investigated the nature and distribution of dual-language preschool teachers' questions across parallel Spanish- and English-medium read-aloud activities. The notions of comprehensible input (CitationKrashen, 1985) and language output (CitationSwain, 1985), along with a reciprocal interaction model of teaching (CitationCummins, 2000), guided our understanding of teachers' use of questions to engage students in book-based ex…
Navigating Hybridized Language Learning Spaces Through Translanguaging Pedagogy
In recent years, there has been a growing interest among policymakers, practitioners, and researchers in early bilingual development and the unique role of the educational setting’s language policy in this development. In this article, we describe how one dual language preschool teacher, in partnership with two co-teachers, navigated the tensions between language separation ideology and its practical realization in early bilingual education by co…
Translanguaging and the multilingual turn
New challenges in education, stemming from the forces of globalization and the continued diversification of the student body, illuminate the need for a reexamination of the role of language in curriculum studies. Through a discussion of the issues around multilingualism and translanguaging and the shift in perspective that these topics have provoked in the fields of SLA, TESOL, BE, I present the relevance and implications of this critical languag…
What’s in a Name? A Critical Literacy and Functional Linguistic Analysis of Immigrant Acculturation in Contemporary Picture Books
This article investigates how immigrant children’s acculturation experiences are characterized through the symbolic literary feature of name in children’s literature and how the language of the text functions to communicate these messages. We draw on the theoretical frameworks of Critical Literacy (CL) and Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) to inform our analysis, showcasing how the connection and interrelation of these theories maximizes the …
Translated science textbooks in dual language programs
A comparative lexicogrammatical and logicosemantic systemic functional analysis of two third-grade science curricular units on the topic of “matter” written in Spanish is presented. One of these curricular units, translated from an English textbook, or “mirror text,” is used in dual language programs (Spanish-English) in the United States; the other is used in regular elementary science for monolingual Spanish students in some Latin American coun…
Combating Racial Inequity Through Local Historical Analysis
One way for teachers to use engaging and relevant social studies curriculum is by delving into local history to help students understand the influence that community activists have had on national policies and events. In this article, we provide teachers an approach to incorporate topics of racial inequity in their classrooms by showcasing a dynamic social studies unit that reveals the role of local history and community activists during the nati…
A case for a functional linguistic knowledge base in world language teacher education
This article contributes to broader discussions of the knowledge base for language teacher education; the standards and policies that inform world language teacher education; and the need for a systematic, principled, and robust theory of language to underpin contexualized world language teaching and learning. Specifically, it proposes that the foundation for world language teacher education be broadened and that the linguistics component of the …
“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…
Internationalizations in two loci of enunciation
This paper confronts epistemological myopia to decolonize academic knowledge by exposing scholars' loci of enunciation to localize knowledge that are often taken as universal. In doing so, we reflect about the process of internationalization of higher education (IHE), from two different loci of enunciation--one in the Global South (UFES) and another in the Global North (FAU). Based on the claim that language policies are closely related to intern…
Different When I Opened My Mouth
This article explores experiences, reflections, and perspectives of actual or perceived linguistic discrimination as experienced by four Latina/o and one White foreign-born professors currently working in research universities across the United States. Building on the literature on linguistic discrimination and the theoretical framing of LangCrit, the authors exemplify instances of linguistic discrimination resulting from a member of the majority…
Language teacher candidates’ SFL development
Few studies in language teacher education programs provide insight on how knowledge of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) is developed by teacher candidates to support their metalinguistic awareness and preparation to teach language. Building upon the contributions of Johnson and Byrnes, we combined Halliday’s language-based theory of learning with a sociocultural view of the development of an SFL knowledge base for language teaching. Specific…
Culturally sustaining approaches to academic languaging through systemic functional linguistics
Historically, academic language (AL) has been a highly contentious and debated construct, criticized because of its framing as a set of objective linguistic forms requisite in academic settings, as being more specialized and complex than non-academic registers, and prioritizing White linguistic practices. Educators in support of AL instruction view it as an inherent part of each academic discipline and, therefore, as a tool for equity and access …
Facilitating culturally sustaining, functional literacy practices in a middle school Esol reading program
This paper explores how Culturally Sustaining Systemic Functional Linguistics (CSSFL), a theoretical and pedagogical approach, facilitates emergent bilingual (EB) students’ engagement in explicit, equitable literacy practices within the unique context of a middle school intensive reading classroom. This design-based research (DBR) study documents the literacy practices and routines of EBs in a culturally and linguistically diverse intensive readi…
A systematic review of research on LGBTQ educators’ experiences and LGBTQ curriculum in K-12 U.S. public schools
Pedagogical practices, curriculum development, and student experiences within postsecondary music education
This systematic literature review seeks to examine the pedagogical practices, professional relationships, and curricular development that impact teachers’ and students’ experiences in the postsecondary music education field as well as the theoretical frameworks and methodological design guiding the inquiry of included studies. A literature search following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines …
How the Amount of Teacher Spanish Use interacts with Classroom Quality to Support English/Spanish DLLs’ Vocabulary
Research Findings: We examined the amount of preschool lead/assistant teachers’ English/Spanish language use and relations between quality of teacher-child interactions, and Dual Language Learners’ (DLLs) English/Spanish bilingual vocabulary in 31 English-medium Head Start classrooms. Measures in this study included (a) children’s conceptual English/Spanish bilingual receptive and expressive vocabulary, (b) classroom quality via systematic observ…
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
Translanguaging research has documented language practices within the multilingual, multimodal turn and the post-multilingualism era. Space still remains for inquiry into translanguaging practices that respect and align with students’ multilingual affordances across languages. How might these practices counteract monoglossic pressures in classrooms and their appearance in/through teacher-student dynamics? Growing attention given to bi/multilingua…
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…
Emergent bilingual preschoolers’ verbal and embodied engagement behaviors in read aloud
Shared reading is a crucial site for children’s emerging reading skills when children engage affectively, behaviorally, and cognitively in the reading process. To inform a more holistic, collective, and inclusive view of observable engagement in read aloud (RA) behaviors, authors examined EB preschoolers’ micro-moment engagement behaviors to understand how they recruit their verbal and embodied modes to attend to RAs and how these behaviors align…
“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…
Psychology (20 obras) · Pedagogy (18 obras) · Sociology (18 obras) · Linguistics (16 obras) · Multilingual Education and Policy (13 obras) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (12 obras) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (11 obras) · Mathematics education (11 obras) · Curriculum (6 obras) · Neuroscience of multilingualism (6 obras)