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Category: Reflections on Bilingualism

Let’s set some things straight…
Reflections on Bilingualism Uncategorized

Let’s set some things straight…

Gretchen MeloOctober 20, 2023April 22, 2025

Teaching Spanish is a way to advocate for emergent bilingual students. There is not ONE “correct” way to become bilingual.…

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Investigative Language Learning – 100 Ways to Use a Constructivist Approach
Montessori-Inspired Spanish Language Learning Reflections on Bilingualism Spanish Teachers in Conventional Schools

Investigative Language Learning – 100 Ways to Use a Constructivist Approach

Gretchen MeloApril 4, 2023April 22, 2025

“Transform the way you teach languages with ‘Investigative Language Learning – 100 Ways to Use a Constructivist Approach’! This ebook…

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A Video Journey to Language Learning Options for Elementary Students- Conventional and Montessori
Montessori-Inspired Spanish Language Learning Reflections on Bilingualism

A Video Journey to Language Learning Options for Elementary Students- Conventional and Montessori

Gretchen MeloMarch 29, 2023April 22, 2025

What is behind the Montessori-inspired curriculum as well as my mainstream/conventional curriculum? What kind of research supports what I’m doing?…

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My Swedish Ancestors, the Hegemony of English, and Day of the Dead
Reflections on Bilingualism

My Swedish Ancestors, the Hegemony of English, and Day of the Dead

Gretchen MeloNovember 11, 2020April 22, 2025

“It is now 1985,” read my son, “and my grandpa will be seventy-eight years old. […] He tells of changes…

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Reflections on Bilingualism

The Choice is Yours

Gretchen MeloSeptember 6, 2020April 22, 2025

Like many, I have been doing a lot of reflecting and self-evaluating over the past 6 months. I have stayed…

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Reflections on Bilingualism

“Me” Inside of “We”

Gretchen MeloJuly 21, 2020April 22, 2025

The United States is a unique country, and there are many qualities that make it so. One unique quality, which…

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Reflections on Bilingualism

Finding Power in Inadequacy

Gretchen MeloJuly 9, 2020April 22, 2025

I am not very good at drawing, but I do it from time to time. Sometimes I draw or doodle…

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A Bilingual Bridge
Reflections on Bilingualism

A Bilingual Bridge

Gretchen MeloJune 11, 2020April 22, 2025

Who are you and what are you doing here? No, not existentially. Literally. What brought you to this page? Was…

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