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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
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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