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Alejandro Granados Vargas; Elizabeth D. Peña; Lisa M. Bedore – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Aims: We investigate the relationship between narrative macrostructure, current language exposure, and microstructure in second-grade Spanish-English bilingual children in the United States. Macrostructure knowledge has been claimed to be shared across languages in multilingual individuals. We examine the role of current language exposure and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Grade 2, English, Spanish
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Martinez-Roldan, Carmen; Sayer, Peter – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2006
This study examines the biliteracy development of a group of bilingual Latino third graders in an elementary school in the south-west USA. It focuses on the role of language in children's reading comprehension of narrative texts in Spanish and English in a school context. The authors frame their analysis within the "Continua of Biliteracy" model…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Grade 3, Reading Comprehension, Second Language Learning