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Confounds in Assessing the Associations between Biliteracy and English Language Proficiency
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Proctor, C. Patrick; Silverman, Rebecca D. – Educational Researcher, 2011
It has long been theorized, if not exhaustively researched, that bilingualism and biliteracy are beneficial in promoting linguistic and academic gains; but the operationalization of these constructs is confounding. In the current study, the authors worked with 118 Spanish-English bilingual Latina/o students and investigated whether Spanish-English…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Bilingualism, Literacy, Correlation