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Direct linkGoodwin, Amanda P.; Huggins, A. Corinne; Carlo, Maria S.; August, Diane; Calderon, Margarita – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2013
This study explored subprocesses of reading for 157 fifth grade Spanish-speaking English language learners (ELLs) by examining whether morphological awareness made a unique contribution to reading comprehension beyond a strong covariate-phonological decoding. The role of word reading and reading vocabulary as mediators of this relationship was…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Grade 5, Spanish Speaking, English Language Learners
Goodwin, Amanda P.; August, Diane; Calderon, Margarita – Language Learning, 2015
The current study unites multiple theories (i.e., the orthographic depth hypothesis and linguistic grain size theory, the simple view of reading, and the common underlying proficiency model) to explore differences in how 113 fourth-grade Spanish-speaking English learners (ELs) approached reading in their native language of Spanish, which is…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Reading Comprehension, Reading Processes
August, Diane; Artzi, Lauren; Barr, Christopher – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2016
The Common Core State Standards and the Next Generation Science Standards require students to understand and produce academic language that appears in informational text. Vocabulary is a critical domain of academic language, but English language learners (ELLs) come to the English Language Arts classroom with more limited English vocabulary than…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Language Arts, English, Common Core State Standards
Proctor, C. Patrick; August, Diane; Snow, Catherine; Barr, Christopher D. – Bilingual Research Journal, 2010
The purpose of the current study is to elaborate on the statistical nature of the linguistic interdependence hypothesis (Cummins, 1979). It is argued that reading skills across the languages of bilingual learners are differentially robust to interdependence, falling along a continuum mediated by the commonalities between Spanish and English.…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Structural Equation Models, Oral Language, Reading Achievement
Proctor, C. Patrick; August, Diane; Carlo, Maria S.; Snow, Catherine – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2006
This study explored a holistic model of English reading comprehension among a sample of 135 Spanish-English bilingual Latina and Latino 4th-grade students This model took into account Spanish language reading skills and language of initial literacy instruction. Controlling for language of instruction, English decoding skill, and English oral…
Descriptors: Spanish, Language of Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Oral Language
Proctor, C. Patrick; Carlo, Maria; August, Diane; Snow, Catherine – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2005
A structural equation model of second language (L2; English) reading comprehension was tested on a sample of 135 Spanish-speaking 4th-grade English-language learners (ELLs). The model included 2 levels: decoding and oral language. English decoding measures included alphabetic knowledge and fluency. English oral language measures included…
Descriptors: Goodness of Fit, Vocabulary Development, Spanish Speaking, Oral Language
